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A.P. Human Geography Spring CRT
Student Growth Assessment 5 of 5
Written: 2012-2013
Implemented: 2012-2013
District # 228 SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT
Authors: Ed Lipowski, Chris Vitt, Chris Hennessy, Pete Luby
APHG Spring CRT (student growth assessment # 5)
Directions: Read each question carefully, choose the correct response, and shade the
corresponding choice on the answer sheet.
1.In a spatial context, multinational corporations tend
to
5. The weakly defined political boundary regions of
Antarctica and the Amazon Basin are examples of
(A) have localized headquarters and dispersed
production centers
(B) be situated in many countries
(C) move production centers quite quickly
(D) situate themselves to minimize costs and maximize
influence
(E) All of the above
(A) maquiladoras
(B) regional backwaters
(C) cultural cohorts
(D) frontiers
(E) functional regions
2. In addition to employment and increased pay
opportunities, poor rural to urban migrants in LDCs can
be influenced by pull factors such as
6. The United Nations developed which statistic as a
measure of development in the 1970s to try to quantify
economic development?
(A) entertainment and increased access to services in
cities
(B) armed conflicts and disasters in rural areas
(C) decreased political corruption and increased police
protection in cities
(D) increasing land costs for agriculture in rural regions
(E) lack of clean water and sanitation availability in new
urban settlements
(A) Physical Quality of Life Index
(B) Purchasing power parity
(C) Human Development Index
(D) Technology gap
(E) Dependency theory
3. All of the following are branches or denominations of
Islam EXCEPT
7. Multinational corporations take advantage of
geographic differences in
(A) Shia
(B) Sunni
(C) Sufism
(D) Quranism
(E) Hinduism
(A) wage rates
(B) labor laws
(C) the distribution of natural resources
(D) relaxed environmental standards
(E) all of the above
4. In the early 1990s, Germany saw East and West
Germany come together to form one country. This is
the process of
8. Elements of _______ change rapidly over time, but
not space, whereas elements of _______ change very
little over time, but dramatically over space.
(A) regionalism
(B) gerrymandering
(C) reapportionment
(D) reunification
(E) supranationalism
(A) folk culture . . . pop culture
(B) rapid diffusion . . . local diffusion
(C) the fast world . . . the slow world
(D) pop culture . . . folk culture
(E) youth culture . . . elite culture
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9. The sub-Saharan and Saharan regions of Africa are
suffering what environmental problem due to the
overgrazing of animals?
Use the diagram below to answer questions 14-17:
(A) Climate change
(B) Acid rain
(C) Erosion of topsoil
(D) Carbon Dioxide emission increases
(E) Desertification
10. What is the biggest downside to gentrification?
(A) Older neighborhoods are revitalized
(B) Newer neighborhoods are added farther out,
creating urban sprawl
(C) Property taxes are increased, forcing people out of
their homes
(D) New transportation systems in older
neighborhoods mean the razing of older homes
(E) The crime rate increases substantially
11. Globalization involves
14. This urban model best resembles a
(A) concentric zone model
(B) von Thunen’s model of the Isolated State
(C) sector model
(D) multiple nuclei model
(E) galactic city model
(A) an ever-widening spatial scale of economic and
social activities
(B) increased systems of linkages between places and
people
(C) a parallel, localization effect
(D) (A) and (B)
(E) (A), (B), and (C)
15. Is this urban model, land prices would be highest in the
area labeled
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
12. The commonly accepted definition of
overpopulation is
16. In the United States following World War II, the ring that
would expand most significantly in size would be the area
labeled
(A) only a small amount of resources are available
(B) too many people for the available resources
(C) a high population density
(D) a high total population
(E) a place that experiences high growth rates
13. Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in
the world. What language branch is it part of?
(A) Indo-European
(B) Sino-Tibetan
(C) Afro-Asiatic
(D) Austro-Asiatic
(E) Nilo-Saharan
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
17. Using the diagram, a model of urban realms that more
realistically represents commercial land values can be
created by inserting
(A) rivers and trails
(B) roads and railways
(C) airports and schools
(D) power plants and ports
(E) banks and hospitals
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18. The Italian language varies significantly between
Milan, Rome, Naples, and Palermo. These varieties are
examples of
(A) pidgins
(B) lingua franca
(C) language groups
(D) dialects
(E) idioms
19. Which of the graphs depicts Malthus’ hypothesis
regarding food production?
21. Which of the following lists Rostowe’s development
model in order?
(A) Traditional society, preconditions for takeoff, drive to
maturity, takeoff, age of mass consumption
(B) Traditional society, takeoff, preconditions for takeoff, age
of mass consumption, drive to maturity
(C) Preconditions for takeoff, takeoff, traditional society,
drive to maturity, age of mass consumption
(D) Drive to maturity, traditional society, takeoff,
preconditions for takeoff, age of mass consumption
(E) Traditional society, preconditions for takeoff, takeoff,
drive to maturity, age of mass consumption
22. In the pre-industrial phase of urban settlement in the
United States, the economy was dominated by:
(A) tertiary activities
(B) quaternary activities
(C) primary activities
(D) secondary activities
(E) (A) and (D)
(A) Graph 1
(B) Graph 2
(C) Graph 3
(D) Graph 4
(E) None of the graphs represents Malthus’ view of food
production
20. Shifting cultivation is most often practiced in
(A) alpine tundra
(B) tropical forests
(C) flood plains
(D) deserts
(E) boreal forests
23. The most common crop grown using the practice of
intensive subsistence farming in the world today is
(A) corn
(B) wheat
(C) soybeans
(D) barley
(E) rice
24. Increased air pollution, segregation, habitat
destruction, inner-city decay, and loss of productive
farmlands are all caused by
(A) climate change
(B) urban sprawl
(C) postmodernism
(D) ozone depletion
(E) gentrification
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25. Which term below best describes a religion that uses
missionaries to spread its faith?
29. Just-in-time delivery refers to what?
(A) Ethnic
(B) Universalizing
(C) Monotheistic
(D) Polytheistic
(E) Animistic
(A) The process of getting food to the market before it spoils
(B) The process of producing food in time to meet the demand
for the food
(C) The process of getting food to the market as people are
willing to buy it
(D) The process of moving material to reduce cost
(E) The process of reducing labor costs to control prices
26. When a country combines its religion with its
government, it is called a
30. The language family spoken by the most people on earth
today is
(A) dictatorship
(B) theocracy
(C) democracy
(D) autocracy
(E) oligarchy
(A) Germanic
(B) English
(C) Indo-European
(D) Sino-Tibetan
(E) Latin
27. What is the pattern in Von Thunen’s model of land use?
31. The Hmong tradition of bringing family members to the
United States after some family members have migrated is an
example of what?
(A) Market gardening, dairy, livestock fattening,
commercial grain, livestock ranching
(B) Dairy, commercial grain, livestock ranching, livestock
fattening, market gardening
(C) Commercial grain, livestock fattening, livestock
ranching, dairy, market gardening
(D) Livestock fattening, livestock ranching, dairy, market
gardening, commercial grain
(E) Market gardening, livestock farming, livestock ranching,
dairy, commercial grain
28. The practice of hiring a foreign third-party service
provider to run an operation is called
(A) outsourcing
(B) offshoring
(C) maquiladoras
(D) locational interdependence
(E) Fordism
(A) environmental pull factors
(B) intervening opportunity
(C) intervening obstacle
(D) chain migration
(E) brain drain
32. The term “transhumance” refers to
(A) nomadic pastoralism that is seasonal
(B) slash-and-burn agriculture
(C) the mobility of an advanced economic society
(D) the movement of liquid in plants
(E) the movement of soil on a hillside
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33. Which religion allows its adherents to follow other
religions simultaneously?
(A) Buddhism
(B) Hinduism
(C) Islam
(D) Judaism
(E) Christianity
37. The first stage of the demographic transition exhibits
(A) high birth rates with high but fluctuating death rates
(B) declining birth rates with continuing high death rates
(C) low birth rates with continuing high death rates
(D) high birth rates with declining high death rates
(E) high birth rates with low and stable death rates
34. Mecca represents the geographical focal point of
which religion?
38. The ratio between distance on a map and distance on the
earth’s surface is called the
(A) Judaism
(B) Hinduism
(C) Buddhism
(D) Taoism
(E) Islam
(A) projection
(B) resolution
(C) scale
(D) isoline
(E) proruption
35. The theory that the main purpose of a settlement or
market town is to furnish goods and services to the
surrounding market area is called the
39. The one-child policy in China has been relatively
successful in controlling birth rates, natural increase rates,
and doubling time. This is an example of what means to
control population growth?
(A) urban hierarchy theory
(B) central place theory
(C) concentric zone model
(D) multiplier effect
(E) rank-size rule
36. Nomadic herding is associated with
(A) pastoralism
(B) swidden
(C) agribusiness
(D) deindustrialization
(E) dairying
(A )increasing death rates
(B) decreasing birth rates
(C) increasing birth rates
(D) decreasing death rates
(E) zero population growth
40. The belief that one ethnic group is superior to others is an
example of
(A) genocide
(B) ethnocentrism
(C) ethnic conflicts
(D) ethnic homeland
(E) ethnic landscapes
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41. In a country where the rate of natural increase (RNI)
is a negative number, an expected secondary effect of
this population situation would be
(A) a decrease in the per capita gross national product
(B) fewer women entering management, scientific and
political positions
(C) a repeal of open-border policies
(D) decreased government protection of natural
environments
(E) an increase in foreign guest workers immigrating to
fill jobs
42. Olives, dates, and grapes are agricultural products
practiced in what type of farming?
(A) plantation agriculture
(B) Mediterranean agriculture
(C) subsistence agriculture
(D) pastoral nomadism
(E) slash-and-burn agriculture
45. Which of the following is NOT a centripetal force?
(A) National anthem
(B) Homogeneous population
(C) Monolingual society
(D) National education system
(E) Religious diversity
46. Which of the following is NOT one of the primary
industrial regions in the world economy?
(A) Northeastern United States
(B) Central Europe
(C) Russia and Ukraine
(D) Eastern South America
(E) East Asia
43. Fisheries, mining and timber are types of economic
production that are part of the
47. Total fertility rate is NOT closely correlated with which
of the following?
(A) primary sector
(B) secondary sector
(C) tertiary sector
(D) quaternary sector
(E) quinary sector
(A) Industrial output
(B) Gender empowerment
(C) Education
(D) Economic development
(E) Literacy rates
44. Which of the following does NOT represent an
international organization?
(A) NAFTA
(B) EU
(C) OPEC
(D) NATO
(E) CIA
48. Which of the following does NOT represent an
extensive commercial agricultural activity?
(A) Ranching
(B) Plantation farming
(C) Dairying
(D) Nomadic herding
(E) Feeder grain production
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49. The near secession of Quebec from Canada in 1995
was based on what cultural factor?
(A) Religion
(B) Language
(C) Nationality
(D) Ethnicity
(E) Race
52. What is the process called when people move away from
the central business district due to dissatisfaction with the
urban policies and lifestyle?
(A) Blockbusting
(B) Redlining
(C) Counterurbanization
(D) Decentralization
(E) Gentrification
50. Which of the following best describes the shape of
the state of Thailand?
53. Which process has allowed much of Asia’s population to
be fed?
(A) Prorated
(B) Rectangular
(C) Elongated
(D) Compact
(E) Perforated
(A) Plantation agriculture
(B) Double cropping
(C) Soil tilling
(D) Desertification
(E) Terraced irrigation
54. The use of the English language by all commercial airline
pilots worldwide for the purpose of air-traffic control safety
would be an example of
(A) transnational migration
(B) relocation diffusion
(C) a lingua franca
(D) multiplier effects
(E) a footloose industry
51. Which of the following is a push factor?
(A) Dissatisfaction with current jobs
(B) Higher-paying jobs elsewhere
(C) An attractive retirement community elsewhere
(D) A pleasant climate
(E) Safer communities elsewhere
55. You are a furniture maker and use pinewood to make tables
and chairs. It costs about the same to ship the pinewood to
your factory as it does to bring your furniture to the market as
both have close to the same weight. Where do you put your
factory in relation to the pine forest and the market to
minimize transportation costs?
(A) Closer to the market
(B) Closer to the forest
(C) Anywhere you want in between them
(D) Closest to the nearest waste facility to minimize
transportation costs of waste
(E) Farthest away from the other furniture maker to ensure
maximum market
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56. Which of these figures demonstrates the largest dependency ratio?
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80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
7 6 5 4 32 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 6 5 4 321 01 2 34 56 7
Male
% Female
Detroit, MI
(76% African-American)
(a)
Naples, FL
(42% over age 65)
(b)
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80
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50
40
30
20
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40
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7 6 543210 1 2 3 4
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%
Female
Honolulu, HI
(71% Asian-American)
(c)
7 654321012345 6 7
Male
%
USA
Female
(A) Figure a
(B) Figure b
(C) Figure c
(D) Figure d
(E) Not enough information to answer the question
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57. The latitude and longitude coordinates of a place
are an example of
62. Tertiary economies are focused on what type of economic
activity?
(A) a formal region
(B) a functional region
(C) an absolute location
(D) a relative location
(E) a perceptual region
(A) Primary industries
(B) Secondary industries
(C) Management industries
(D) Farming
(E) Service-based economies
58. These makeshift neighborhoods, constructed of
scrap materials, are found in all of the world’s large
peripheral cities.
63. London, Paris, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City are all
(A) Squatter settlements
(B) Edge cities
(C) Swidden lands
(D) Regional centers
(E) Gentrified districts
59. What was the basic industry of Pittsburgh during
the early development of the city?
(A) Steel
(B) Glass
(C) Automobiles
(D) Leather products
(E) Furniture
(A) world cities
(B) primate cities
(C) edge cities
(D) Spanish-speaking cities
(E) megalopolises
64. Pork production and hog raising are almost nonexistent in
the Islamic world. What best explains this lack of pork
production?
(A) Ethnic taboos do not allow Muslims to eat pork
(B) Religious guidelines do not allow Muslims to eat pork
(C) The pork is not a customary food preference in the Islamic
diet
(D) Muslim’s dietary preferences tend more toward cattle
production
(E) The Islamic religion exalts vegans as having religious purity
60. The Wheat Belt in the United States corresponds
with what region?
65. Which of the following is an example of a nation without a
state?
(A) Pacific Northwest
(B) Southeast
(C) Midwest
(D) Desert Southwest
(E) Great Plains
(A) Israel
(B) Palestine
(C) Texas
(D) Jamaica
(E) Yugoslavia
61. In what country are the most Basque speakers
found?
(A) Denmark
(B) Finland
(C) Luxembourg
(D) Spain
(E) Germany
66. The central place theory posits which geographic
principles are essential for the economic success of
commercial establishments?
(A) Threshold and range
(B) Market area and economic structure
(C) Threshold and globalization
(D) Employment structure and range
(E) Range and globalization
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67. Which continent has the highest total fertility
rates?
(A) Africa
(B) Asia
(C) South America
(D) Europe
(E) Australia
68. The process of gerrymandering is best described
by
(A) the establishment of new city, county or state
governments more favorable to business interests and
wealthy citizens
(B) the creation of new voting districts that have
irregular boundaries designed to favor a particular
candidate or political party
(C) the delineation of areas where insurance
companies do not wish to sell policies to homeowners
due to race, ethnicity or income differences
(D) the expansion of city limit boundaries to include
new suburbs and areas of city utility infrastructure
(E) the random overlapping of public service districts
where the boundaries of school systems, public utility
services and political boundaries do not match
69. When several large urban areas essentially merge
together to from an even larger urban complex, it’s
called a(n)
(A) urban agglomeration
(B) megacity
(C) city conglomerate
(D) megolopolis
(E) megatropolis
70. The multiplier effect is
(A) the addition of non-basic workers to an urban
economy that has added more basic workers
(B) a ratio of urban to rural workers in an economy
(C) the ratio of city workers to farm workers in an
economy
(D) the addition of rural jobs created by the urban
economy
(E) the multiple jobs eliminated by foreign workers
71. NATO and the Warsaw Pact can be best described as
(A) regional organizations based on economic cooperation
(B) early attempts at free-trade zones in Europe
(C) partners in combating irredentism in the former Yugoslavia
(D) military allies during World War II
(E) supranational organizations based on military cooperation
72. The Green Revolution included which of the following?
(A) Irrigation projects
(B) Increased use of biocides
(C) The development of “miracle seeds”
(D) Hybridization methods
(E) All of the above
73. Which of the following items below is an absolute
location?
(A) 10 miles east of Pittsburgh
(B) Washington
(C) 3 degrees south
(D) 479 Elm Street, Muncie, Indiana
(E) Prime Meridian
74. The replacement rate in developed countries is a Total
Fertility Rate (TFR) is about
(A) 0.1
(B) 1.1
(C) 2.1
(D) 3.1
(E) 4.1
75. The center and place of origin of a cultural tradition is
called a
(A) culture center
(B) cultural complex
(C) cultural trait
(D) culture hearth
(E) cultural genesis
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