AP Human Geography Random Units

A

100

What is shanghai, hong kong, Chicago, la, sau palo

what are semi world cities

200

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is

What is range

300

List 3 Romance Langauges

Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian,  Romanian, etc.

400

If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution?

What is primate city

500

List the five stages of Rostow's model and a characteristic of each.

1. Traditional: limited tech, static society
2. Preconditions of takeoff: 
3. Takeoff
4. Drive to maturity
5. High mass consumption

B

100

What is GNI?

What is the overall value of exports on a yearly basis including money that leaves and enters a country

200

Human Development Index accounts for...

GDP, life expectancy, literacy rate

300

Outsourcing has had a major impact on this.

Distribution of manufacturing

400

Percentage of people from a country that are economically active in agriculture, hunting, forestry, or fishing.

What is Agricultural Labor Force?

500

Richard Florida's research identified a relationship between the distribution of A) talent and diversity. B) central places. C) talent and economic prosperity. D) rural and urban settlements. E) business and consumer services.

What is talent and diversity

C

100

What is Folk Culture?

Culture traditionally practiced by a small homogenous rural group living in relative isolation.

200

What two invasions helped to create English?

The German Invasion and The Norman Invasion

300

How many members are in the EU?

28

400

define maquiladora

What is factories built by the US in mexico near the US border to take advantage of the lower labor cost in Mexico

500

A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is A) public administration. B) industrial. C) office. D) retail. E) legal.

What is industrial

D

100

According to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of A) corridors. B) nodes. C) rings. D) sectors. E) quadrants.

What is rings

200

According to the sector model, the best housing is located in A) a corridor from downtown to the edge of the city. B) an outer ring surrounding the city. C) nodes near universities and parks. D) renovated inner-city neighborhoods. E) gated communities.

What is a corridor from downtown to the edge of the city

300

According to the multiple nuclei model, an airport is likely to attract nearby A) hotels and warehouses. B) residences and highways. C) retail and wholesale shops. D) universities and colleges. E) hospitals and clinics.

What is hotels and warehouses

400

What two continents are in the Arab League?

Africa and Asia

500

The multiple nuclei theory A) involves four linked CBDs. B) includes nodes such as a port, a university, airport, and a park. C) includes a nucleus in the CBD which is connected to a nucleus in the suburbs. D) links a seaport, an airport, and a railway station. E) disregards the use of nodes.

What is includes nodes such as a port, a university, airport, and a park.

E

100

The city plus its surrounding built-up suburbs is the A) central city. B) urbanized area. C) metropolitan statistical area. D) consolidated metropolitan statistical area. E) regional government federation.

What is consolidated metropolitan statistical area.

200

In the United States, which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area? A) central business district B) central city C) urbanized area D) metropolitan statistical area E) regional government federation

What is metropolitan statistical area

300

The Philippines and Indonesia are ______ states.

Fragmented

400

Social area analysis attempts to explain A) the changing location of retail and office activities in North American cities. B) the development of squatter settlements in developing countries. C) the distribution of different types of people in an urban area. D) which of the three models of urban structure is the most accurate in the United States. E) regions ideal for social services.

What is the distribution of different types of people in an urban area.

500

The "Boswash" corridor that stretches from Boston to Washington, D.C., was named "Megalopolis" A) by geographer Jean Gottmann. B) because it covered more than one-fourth of total U.S. land area. C) because it was planned to house more than half of the U.S. population. D) as a counterbalance to the plans of geographer Hugh Separalle. E) by economist, philanthropist, and geographer Harvey Keitel.

What is by geographer Jean Gottmann