Things I Got Wrong

AP Human Geography

The world’s 3 major monotheistic religions are located in/originated in…

Southwest Asia

Chinese people celebrating in France =

Cultural Diffusion

Dominance over others = (type of diffusion)

Hierarchical diffusion

Northern Ireland = which religion?

Ireland = which religion?

Northern Ireland = Protestant (discriminated against Roman Catholics before 1999)

Ireland = Roman Catholics

People from UK have ___ nationality.

British

Christianity entered the Philippines through ____ diffusion.

Relocation (Spanish colonizers in the 16th century)

Which type of agriculture occupies the largest % of the world’s land area?

Shifting cultivation

Which type of agriculture occupies the largest % of the people in agriculture?

Intensive subsistence

Are Celtic languages still spoken in France, were threatened by extinction in England, or have been revived in some parts of the British Isles?

All of the above

Is the distribution of ethnicities in the US concentrated within cities, regions, or by city?

All of the above

Ranching’s dry climate region is most similar to that of…

Pastoral Nomadism (shifting cultivation is in wetter areas)

Most people prefer eating beef from cattle feedlots instead of cattle ranches because…

It is cheaper

All but which countries have the largest Hispanic/Latino groups? Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, or Puerto Rico?

Haiti

Balkanization is…

The fragmentation of political space over ethnic lines

California is at high risk of…

Desertification

Swahili is widely spoken in eastern Africa because of ___ and it’s ___.

Arab traders / Literary tradition

Iraq ___ an example of state sponsored terrorism. Taiwan ____ sovereign. Palestine ___ a state

IS NOT

How did Islam diffuse to the west?

Hierarchically through conquest

How did Islam diffuse to the east?

Missionaries along trade routes

From 1910-1950, the number of African Americans in ghettos increased or decreased?

Increased

The most common form of commercial agriculture in Europe is …

Mixed crop and livestock farming

What region of the US is the cheapest labor located?

South East

Textiles are the __ paying labor.

Lowest

Land values are high in CBDs because of…

Competition for limited space

Does population density directly affect the economic base?

No

Zoning __ segregates in the US. Legally or Illegally?

Legally

Trains and ships were used in early colonization to…

Search for raw materials

People do not usually migrate or seek asylum for what?

Religion

As the aging population increases, the dependency ratio will…

Increase

The largest difference between CBR and CDR in a data set means that that country has what?

Biggest NIR

The world population is mostly in which 2 hemispheres?

North and East

The majority of 1910 US immigrants were from which country?

Germany

The majority of 2010 US immigrants were from which country?

Mexico

Doubling time =

70 divided by the NIR

It took around __ years for Earth’s population to go from 1 to 7 billion.

200

Africa is at which stage of the Epidemiological Transition model, and why?

Stage 5 - they have more pandemics (travel and antibiotic resistance)

Most Central/South American countries are at which stage of the DTM?

Stage 3

The biggest effect on development is …

Women’s literacy

The International Date Line is opposite the ___.

Prime Meridian

Globalization…

Benefits some countries more than others

Cultural ecology

Interaction between humans and the environment

Coffee is most likely to be supplied by a…

Transnational Corporation (TNC)

Sex ratio doesn’t really affect ___.

NIR

Mali has high rates of what?

Infant mortality

Census tracts are about the size of

Neighborhoods

Louisiana has what instead of counties (it is the only US state)?

Parishes

Why are Louisiana and Quebec similar?

They both have French people

Which language families are in India?

North India is Indo-European (Hindi), South India is Dravidian

What is Investment Capital?

Wealthy technology pioneers wanted to start to develop technologies and more innovations which helped to lead to the rise of some industrial regions.a

GIS includes…

Zip codes

Unlike other regions, formal regions have…

Defined borders that are typically political

Time zones were established in the US for…

Railroad travel

If you travel east to west through a time zone, you would arrive “___” at your destination.

Earlier

China has _ time zone/zones.

1

Ancient river valleys were densely populated because of their…

Proximity to water

Site factors (3 in total):

Labor (most important), land, and capital

What is fair trade?

A certification program the supports good crop prices and sustainable farming methods

Ships are the ___ type of transportation.

Cheapest

What shape is the Stage 1 DTM’s population pyramid?

Irregular, not a perfect pyramid

China’s one child policy (ended in 2015) made exceptions for…

Some rural families and some ethnic minorities

Direction of US migration in the 1st half of the 19th century?

Westward Expansion (think pioneers)

What is the most influential supranational organization?

OPEC

US migration quota laws from 1920 - 1960 limited what?

Racial diversity

Most immigrants (young, single, male) move to ___.

MDCs

Popular culture represents cultural…

Homogeneity

What language branch is English part of?

Germanic language branch

Hindi is in the ___ language family.

Indo-European

Hebrew is a ___ language. (religion)

Jewish

The Persian Gulf is mainly ___. (religion)

Muslim

Which religions are universalizing?

Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Mormons

Which religions are ethnic?

Judaism and Hinduism

Union =

You pay dues, more leverage as a group (bargain for a raise easier), bigger companies don’t like them (cost company money)

Right-to-work =

Workers are not forced to join a union

The alignment of cities in a specific direction is which country’s religious tradition?

China

A country with heavy machinery and high tech would be in what stage of Rostow’s model?

Stage 4 - Drive to Maturity

Self-sufficiency as a method for development is largely ___.

Inefficient

HDI is based on…

GDP, literacy rate, education, and life expectancy

Foreign debt as a % of income is highest in…

Africa (low income)

Structural adjustment programs…

Aim to enhance government transparency through economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions that encourage international trade.

Textile manufacturing doesn’t really require ___.

Skill

Aluminum manufacturing heavily relies on ___ as a resource and thus should be located near it.

Electricity (site factor)

Indonesia is mainly ___. (religion)

Muslim

Deindustrialization in the Rust Belt is mostly due to…

Foreign competition

Modern manufacturing’s spatial distribution of the production process is:

Dispersed

“Seperate but equal” came from which trial?

Plessy vs. Ferguson

The border between the US and Canada is:

Geometric and physical

Europe timeline past to present:

City-states → Roman Empire → Nation-states

Egalitarianism:

The belief in the equality of all people

Captive market:

A market where consumers have limited options, equals an increase in money for market (columbian exchange gold)

2 places that have a forward capital?

Brazil and the US

Multinational state example?

Iraq (Kurds), Bulgaria (Flanders / Wallonia)

Multiethnic state example?

US, Australia

Multistate nation examples?

Korea

Nation-state examples?

Japan, Poland, Saudi Arabia

Is NAFTA a supranational organization?

No, it’s a treaty

States have sovereignty in the ocean in…

Their 12 mile territorial waters

What was probably the hearth for corn/maize?

Central Mexico

What is NOT part of the Green Revolution?

Organic Farming

Von Thunen focused on _______ costs.

Land & Transportation

Tropical rainforest clearing does NOT…

Enlarge holes in the ozone layer