AP Human Geography Human Geography — practice questions
44 free MCQs with worked solutions. Tap any question for the answer + explanation, or practice them all in the app.
Practice AP Human Geography Human Geography in the app →A planner needs to understand how a country's population is changing. The study of populations is:A statistic notes how many children are being born in a society. That measure is the:A second statistic counts the number of people who die. That measure is the:A snapshot showing men for every hundred women in a country is the:A chart shows how a population is spread across ages and between the sexes. That chart is a:The maximum number of people an area can support, given its resources, is its:A student lists four population theories. Along with Malthusian, cornucopian and demographic transition, the fFamine, war and disease keep numbers down by raising the death rate. Malthus called these:Birth control and celibacy hold numbers down instead by lowering the birth rate. Those are:A researcher who carried Malthus's warnings into the twentieth century is described as:One theory predicts population growth will follow a predictable four-stage model. That theory is:In the first stage of that model, births, deaths and infant mortality are all high, and life expectancy is:As a country industrialises it enters the second stage, where death rates and infant mortality:Once a society is thoroughly industrialised, birth rates decline while life expectancy keeps:A country in the fourth and final stage of the model is described as being in its:The study of social, political and economic relationships inside cities is called:Suburbs, exurbs and the surrounding metropolitan areas together make up a:A huge urban corridor running through several cities and their suburbs is a:Economically secure White residents moving out of racially mixed urban areas to the suburbs is termed:As cities shift from manufacturing to service and information work, wealthier residents move into older neighbA functionalist field studies the relationship between people and their built and natural surroundings. It is:Residents object to a landfill or chemical plant being sited near their own homes. Such protests are known as:A geographer lists the main ways humans have fed themselves: gathering-hunting, pastoralism, plant cultivationHadza gatherer-hunters live in seminomadic groups of about twenty to thirty people. Such a group is called a:Those groups settle briefly, use up the local resources and then move on. Their movement follows the:Along with mobility and deep environmental knowledge, gatherer-hunters show a strong tendency toward:When tasks are assigned according to whether a person is male or female, anthropologists call this a:Herders in dry regions move animals between highland and lowland pastures as the seasons change. That pattern Some Bedouin combine that movement with a second activity, showing modes can be mixed. That activity is:The earliest form of farming, using simple tools and shifting plots, is called extensive:Tropical farmers cut down vegetation, burn it and till the ash into the soil. That technique is called:That practice works as fertiliser because burning mimics the natural die-off of vegetation seen in:Ploughs, irrigation systems and cultivating the same plots year after year together define:The first farmers to use a plough, drawn by oxen, worked between the Tigris and Euphrates. They were the:Ploughing was worth the effort because turning the soil makes it:Intensive farming can produce more than a family needs. The amount left over is called the:Once surplus allowed people to stop farming, cities grew as sites of trade, monumental building, writing and cPeople share things with no thought of value or return. Anthropologists call that generalized:Two parties exchange items of roughly equal value, expecting return within a reasonable time. That is balancedThe main point of that kind of exchange is described as building something other than profit. It is chiefly abGoods flow in to a central figure and then back out to the community. That two-way flow is called:Money is defined by three functions: a store of value, a unit of account and a:General-purpose money is described as easily available, divisible and:In a factory, unlike household weaving, workers have little control over their work cycles and no claim on: