FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

CURTA'S AP GEOGRAPHY EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -22 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: What are the characteristics of a national population that one can tell from its population pyramid?

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age structure, sex structure, dependency ratio Question 2: Some 90% of the world's population resides on less than what percent of its land area?

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20

Question 3: The theory of the demographic transition holds that

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both birth and death rates decrease with urbanization Question 4: What is the term used to describe a population group unified by an identifying characteristic

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cohort

Question 5: One check to rapid population increase formerly available to European countries but not a possibility in today's developing societies was

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mass migration

Question 6: The first stage of the demographic transition is marked by

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high birth rates, high but fluctuating death rates Question 7: When the average fertility rate of a population drops to the replacement level

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population continues to grow for a generation or more Question 8: A broad-based population pyramid suggests that a country is in what stage of the demographic transition?

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second Question 9: Rapid increases in life expectancy are characteristic of which stage of the demographic transition?

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second

Question 10: The continent with the highest total fertility rates overall is

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Africa Question 11: Population projections have often been inaccurate in the past and likely will be inaccurate in the future because

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projections are based on assumptions about trends that may not be supported by events

Question 12: The systematic study of human population is called

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demography

Question 13: An expression of population pressure exerted on agricultural land is

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physiological density

Question 14: Zero population growth (ZPG)

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refers to an exact equation of births and deaths

Question 15: Carrying capacity is

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a reflection of cultural subduction Question 16: Numerically, the smallest of the major world population concentrations is that of

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the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

Question 17: General worldwide declines of crude death rates

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do not apply to pregnancy-related deaths Question 18: The portions of the earth's surface permanently inhabited by humans make up the

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ecumene.

Question 19: The Malthusian theory is based on what assumptions?

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Population tends to increase more rapidly than do the food supplies to support that population Question 20: During the last decade of the 20th century, world population increased each year by about

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84 million.

Question 21: The doubling time for world population at recent rates of increase is about

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50 years Question 22: The crude death rate for wealthy Western Europe is much higher than that for Central America because

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Western Europe has a higher proportion of old people