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2013 AP Human Geography Fall Semester Exam Review

Unit 1

1. Describe absolute location and relative location

2. What is map distortion?

3. What is site and situation?

4. What does it mean to think spatially?

5. What is environmental determinism?

6. Define cultural landscape

7. What is a long-lot system?

8. How does religion influence toponyms or place names?

9. Define cultural ecology? What does it study?

10.Define: Neolithic Revolution

11.Define: Industrial Revolution

12.Which country, even though its large in terms of area, only has one time zone?

13.Define space-time compression

14.Define famine

15.Compare different types of map projections

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 16.Summarize Koppens climate regions and what is found there.

17.What is the difference between formal, functional and vernacular regions?

18.Describe the difference between relocation diffusion with the different types of expansion

diffusion

Unit 2

1. Describe and give examples of chain migration

2. What happens in each stage of demographic transition?

3. What are refugees and what continent do most of the worlds refugees come from?

4. What are the types of areas where people settle (i.e. warm landsand what are the other

ones?)

5. Define guest workers? What kind of people become guest workers?

6. Define intervening opportunity and give examples.

7. Which countries have been experiencing falling birth rates in the last 25 years?

8. Assuming a world population of 7,100, 000, 000 and an annual growth rate of 1.4%, how
many people will be added to the worlds population next year?

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9. Summarize the demographic transition of Europe from the early 1800s to present (discuss
rise and fall of birth rates, epidemiological transition, industrial revolution, role of women,
and migration)

10.Which regions of the world are parts of the major population concentrations?

11.Which regions of the world are not very populated? Why?

12.Summarize the ideas of Thomas Malthus concerning food production and population

growth.

13.Summarize Ravensteins Laws of Migration

14.Why is crude death rate not a very good indicator of economic development?

15.Why are fertility rates declining among American women?

16.Define gravity model

17.During what time in human history was natural increase the lowest?

18.Describe what a dot map is and what types of geographic information it usually displays.

19.Describe what problems result when rapid urbanization occurs and cities become

overpopulated

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 20.What is the MAIN reason why people from Mexico migrate to the United States?

21.Which regions of the United States would have the slowest population growth?

22.Between the 19th and 20th centuries, which type of interregional migration was most

prominent, worldwide?

23.Explain how crude death rate, crude birth rate, immigration and emigration are all
components of population growth.

24.What are the consequences of the fences that the U.S. builds along the border with

Mexico- especially those walls separating cities on both sides of the border?

Unit 3

1. What is the difference between folk and popular culture?

2. Who are the Amish and why are they a good example of folk culture?

3. Where are Amish found in the United States?

4. How do languages develop and diffuse?

5. Define cultural region

6. List the branch, group, and dialects for each of the following language groups in order
(Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Afro-Asiatic)

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7. Define lingua franca and give examples (besides English)

8. What are some consequences of the globalization of Western (American and European)
culture around the world?

9. Define cultural assimilation

10.What are some reasons why English is so widely spoken around the world?

11.What is the main reason why Arabic has become such a popular language?

12.What is the main difference between a pidgin and Creole?

13.What are examples of cultural symbols