Exam #1 AP Human Geography Study Guide



Exam #3 AP Human Geography Study Guide

TOPIC 5: Agricultural Geography & Land Use (Chapters 8 & 13)

TOPIC 6: Economic Geography & Development (Chapters 9 & 10)

Format: 75 Multiple Choice (50%)

3 Free Response Questions (50%)

TOPIC #5:

Chapter 8

1. examples of primary economic activities (271)

2. secondary activities (272)

3. tertiary economic activities

4. where is nomadic pastoralism (herding) mostly practiced? (276)

5. difference between intensive and extensive agriculture? (276)

6. where is shifting cultivation most efficient? (278)

7. 3 regions of shifting cultivation?

8. clearing of tropical rainforest for agriculture often results in? (quiz)

9. most important event in swidden agriculture? (279)

10. concentration of intensive subsistence farming? (279)

11. urban subsistence farming fertilizers? (282)

12. results of Green Revolution? (283)

13. primary cause of the 3rd agricultural revolution? (quiz)

14. reason for global success of agriculture?

15. grain raised today used mostly for?

16. outermost region of von Thunen’s model? (288)

17. what is von Thunen’s model based upon?

18. what 2 crops are mostly grown in extensive commercial farming? (289-92)

19. what is the “tragedy of the commons”? (298)

Chapter 13

20. biosphere composed of? (488)

21. what do aerosols do?

22. greenhouse gases? (493)

23. areas of heaviest acid rain in N. America? (500)

24. ozone depletion mostly caused by? (501)

25. how does air pollution affect the ecosphere? (quiz)

26. what are the prime causes of desertification? (505)

27. which world region has the worst cases of desertification? (506)

28. why is water pollution so widespread?

29. is there a safe way to store nuclear waste?

TOPIC #6:

Chapter 9

1. what creates “market equilibrium”? (318)

2. what controls the market mechanism?

3. what are the factors of production (notes)

4. characteristic of contemporary manufacturing (quiz)

5. what is the cheapest mode of transporting goods over long distances? (321)

6. most basic element of Weber’s least-cost theory? (326)

7. what is traditional, assembly-line production known as? (328)

8. what does “post-Fordist flexible production” mean?

9. outsourcing? (330)

10. reason for maquiladoras?

11. meaning of footloose?

12. products transnational corporations produce? (333)

13. what is the main focus of tertiary activities? (343)

14. reasons for deindustrialization

15. Asian Tigers

16. what core areas make most of the financial decisions made today? (349)

Chapter 10

17. basic assumption of core-periphery model?

18. geography of underdevelopment? (358)

19. what is the Brandt line?

20. meaning of trickle-down economics? (360)

21. what are the factors vital to development?

22. GDP is positively correlated with which development measure?

23. landlessness reflects what development measure? (369)

24. measures for determining if a country is developing? (quiz)

25. PPP vs. GNP

26. development policy of the 1990’s? (quiz)

27. what sector of the economy are most workers in a country in the 5th stage of Rostow’s model? (374)

28. what are the 4 basic noneconomic measures of development? (notes)

29. which world region has the worst access to education, safe drinking water, and medicine?

30. what is the concept of gender? (384, notes)

Free Response Question:

Third Agricultural Revolution

Outsourcing

Rostow’s Model

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