Aphg practice test – Flashcards
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5.) In the US, the largest concentrations of Amish are found in...
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E) Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
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6) In which of the following areas was wheat most probably domesticated earliest?
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South Eastern Turkey
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8) In the earliest twenty-first century, the largest # of refugees was where?
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A) Africa
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13) International company Headquarters, significant global financial functions, and a polarized social structure are defining characteristics of
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D) World Cities
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14) With respect to the NAFTA between the US, Canada, and Mexico, which of the following statements is false?
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B) It outlines an eventual supranational governing body for North America
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15) Quarternary economic activities are those that...
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C) involve the collection, processing and manipulation of information
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16) Which of the following consumes the most fossil fuels
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E) The US
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17) Which of the following characteristics is currently shares by Switzerland Canada and new Zealand
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A) low pop growth rates
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21) The term balkanization refers to the
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A) fragmentation of a region into smaller units
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23) Which of the following industries will most likely locate closest to its raw material sources
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C) Nickel Smelting
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26) Chinese cities towards cardinal directions illustrates shaping of early cities how
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A) belief systems
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27) Which of the following statements best describes the impact of improvements in transportation systems on agriculture
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C) corporate farms have gained greater advantage over family farms
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28)greatest Canadian population is clustered where
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E
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30) Regionalization is to geography as
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D) Periodization is to history
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31) cultural landscape is
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C) the forms superimposed on environment by activities of humans
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32) relatively young pop structure where
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A) LDCs
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41) Agriculture in Cali is dif from Mediterranean cuz in Cali
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B) farms use more irrigation
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42) which of the following has fostered the most significant economic growth by eliminating import tariffs between member states
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A) European Union
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43) settlement node with primary function is to provide support for hinterland and pop
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E) central place
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44)Which of the following environmental problems are most associated with the African Sahel
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A) desertification
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47) in terms of total tonnage, which of the following is currently the leading export crop in the world
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C) wheat
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49) Which of the following is most chacteristics of societies currently in the last stage of demographic transition
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D) aging population
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50)Which of the following most closely describes the leading trend in retailing in the US during 1950s 1970s and 1990s
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A) downtown business district(1950s)
Shopping mall(1970s)
"Big box" superstore(1990s)
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51) Land parcels in the American Midwest tend to be rectilinear because
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A) the federal survey system adopted in the late eighteenth century imposed a geometric pattern on the landscape
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52) which of the following environmental issues is of most immediate concern to policy -makers in New England?
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A) overharvesting of breeding stock by commercial fishers
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53) The popularity of which of the following is an example of the trend toward ecotourism?
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C) national parks in Costa Rica
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54) The early stages of core-periphery model describes the
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E) relationship of power and the transfer of resources from less developed areas to more developed areas
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55) Which of the following terms refers to an area of instability located between regions with opposing political and cultural values?
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C) Shatter belt
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56) violent confrontations in ambo arch and east Timor illustrate the problem of holding together the physically and culturally diverse country of
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B) Indonesia
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58)Which of the following was not a reason for rapid suburbanization in The US after the second world war
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B) reduction in long-distance commuting
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61) Which of the following countries did not have a significant, long lasting colonial presence in Africa after 1920
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A) Germany
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69) of the following, which is the best example of a footloose industry?
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D) computer chip
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71)Which of the following areas has the greatest linguistic fragmentation
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C) caucasus
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73) according to the sector model of north America city, structure, members of low-income groups tend to live in which of the following places?
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C) linear residential areas radiating from the center city outward
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74) of the following countries, which has the fewest people per unit of arable land?
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C) Argentina
