AP HUMAN
GEOGRAPHY
FALL EXAM
REVIEW
MS.
FONTNETT
AP Human Geography Fall Semester Exam Free Response Questions
1. Walls and other barriers built by countries to establish their borders are some of the oldest and most
controversial elements in the cultural landscape.
a. Identify three examples of walls or other barriers built by countries in the twentieth and twenty
first centuries.
b. Explain the purpose of one of the examples you identified in part a
c. For each of the categories listed below, discuss a consequence faced by countries as a result of
walls or other barriers established along their borders.
i. social or political
ii. Economic
iii. Environmental
AP Human Geography Fall Semester Exam 2014
This computer system captures, stores, analyzes and displays data. It
measures the position of a0n object on earth and stores it in a
computer along countless other specific measurements. Each type of
information may be stored in a layer and then layers may be combined
to present the overall image.
1. The statement above refers to which of the following?
2. The computer system identified in #1 would most likely be helpful in
solving problems related to
3. A special type of map designed to reveal the nature of local
geography is call a
4. Physiological population density is viewed as a superior measure of
population density for which of the following reasons?
5. Which of the following regions has little dairying in its traditional
agriculture?
6. The spread of specialty coffee shops across the United States in
the 1990s is an example of
7. All of the following statements about the geography of meat
production in the United States and Canada are true EXCEPT
8. A formal region defines an area in which
9. Squatter settlements exist in cities of less-developed countries
because
10. It is generally agreed that the current trend in climate change is
caused by
11. A set of computer tools used to capture, transform, analyze, and
display geographic data.
12. Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular
place
13. Individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on oneanother in a Geographical Information System to understand and
analyze a spatial relationship.
14. Systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the
interaction between the earth's physical systems and processes on
a global scale
15. The realm of geography that studies the structures, processes,
distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena of
the earth's surface.
16. Nations based on shared principles, in contrast to ethnic nations,
which are based more on cultural commonalities
17. The number of babies who die before age of one per 1,000 deaths.
[(number of infants who die before age 1/all births) x 1000]
18. Government attempts to increase or decrease the birth rate in the
country
19. The fact that, in the modern world, there is very little "free"
migration because of laws and border regulations. Thus, even when
people make a free decision to move, they may not be able to
migrate
20. Asylum
21. A Moroccan Muslim (1304-1368) who traveled over 75,000 miles and
wrote an account of his journeys.
22. A distribution in which data show distinct pockets of concentration
23. Critical geopolitics
24. In Hindu areas, a complex division of society based on hereditary
classes that are distinguished by their degree of ritual purity
25. Any attribute that can be considered geographically
26. The permanent relocation of one's place of residence, usually
implying a long-distance move
27. Places that are not holy or sacred; everyday places
28. In social theory, social, political, or economic systems that might
limit or constrain the human capacity to make more independent
decisions; often contrasted with agency
29. The action or movement of people leaving a country to live and
permanently settle in a foreign land
30. Human trafficking