1) the Numbering System Used to Indicate the Location of Meridians Is Called Latitude

AP Human Geography

Unit I (Chapter 1, 2, 3) Test Review – As part of your preparation for our first exam answer the following questions (which are mostly True/False) and provide an explanation. Approximately 20% of the test will be from Chapter 1 and approximately 40% each from Chapter 2 and 3. Re-reading all three (focusing on maps, charts, etc) and reviewing your note cards is essential to be successful.

1) The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians is called latitude.

2) For each 15° change in longitude, time changes by one hour.

3) Distribution refers to the arrangement of observable phenomena across Earth.

4) Formal regions cannot overlap.

5) A high degree of dispersion within an area indicates high density.

6) Geographers generally reject environmental determinism for possibilism.

7) Regions are found only where physical and economic characteristics are strongly related.

8) A functional region can exhibit the distance-decay phenomenon.

9) The spread of an idea through the movement of people is known as stimulus diffusion.

10) The communication revolution that promotes globalization of culture also permits preservation of cultural diversity.

11) Globalization of the economy has led to more specialization at the local level.

12) The spread of a new fashion first in large cities, and later to smaller towns is an example of expansion diffusion.

13) Written scale and ratio or fraction scale are two ways to express map scale. What is the third way to indicate scale?

14) Most population growth is presently concentrated in more developed countries.

15) China has the highest rate of population growth in the world.

16) Since the end of World War II, world population has been growing more slowly than in the past.

17) More than half of the people in the world live in Asia.

18) City X contains 2,000,000 people living on 1,000 square kilometers of land. The population density of city X is 200 persons per square kilometer.

19) The highest crude birth rates are found in the less developed countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

20) The highest crude death rates are found in the less developed countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

21) Societies move from Stage 2 to Stage 3 of the demographic transition because of technical change, but from Stage 3 to Stage 4 because of social change.

22) Increasing the education of women is generally associated with declining birth rates.

23) According to Malthus, population increases geometrically, while food supply increases arithmetically.

24) How do geographers define the concept of overpopulation?

25) The portion of the earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement is called the ______.

26) Explain why today's more developed societies moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition.

27) Explain why today's more developed societies moved in the past from Stage 2 to Stage 3 of the demographic transition.

28) Explain why some of today's more developed societies have recently moved from Stage 3 to Stage 4 of the demographic transition.

29) Explain why today's less developed societies moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition.

30) As the GDP per capita increases, the natural increase rate generally ______.

31) Why does Mexico have a lower CDR than the United States and why does Vietnam have a lower CDR than Sweden?

32) Compare the birth control policies of India and China.

33) The difference between the number of people migrating to a place and the number leaving is called net migration.

34) Countries with slow population growth but strong economies commonly experience out-migration.

35) The most common environmental threat to people comes from too much or too little water.

36) Most migration occurs because of a combination of push and pull factors.

37) In recent years, the immigration quota has been sufficient to accommodate all people who wish to migrate to the United States.

38) Historically, the center of population in the United States has moved a long distance to the west but not a long distance to the south.

39) The most important type of internal migration within the United States is from urban to suburban.

40) Describe suburbanization in more developed countries.

41) Describe the general relationship between population growth and migration.

42) Describe the similarities and differences between illegal immigrants to the United States and guest workers in Europe.