AP Human Geography 2nd Semester
Exam Questions and Answers
Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which of the following? -
Answer-Labor
Intensive wet rice farming is the dominant type of agriculture in - Answer-EIndia,
most SE Asia, & SE China
Pastoral nomadism is most commonly found in which climate region? - Answer-Dry
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures is -
Answer-livestock ranching.
Commercial agriculture is distinguished from subsistence agriculture by - Answer-
farm size, surplus production, low percentage of farmers in the labor force, and
heavy use of machinery
Which of the following is the most common form of commercial agriculture in
Europe? - Answer-Mixed crop and livestock farming
Mixing crops and livestock allows farmers to - Answer-distribute the workload of the
crops and livestock evenly throughout the year
In the United States many farms are integrated into a large food production industry
are know as - Answer-agribusiness.
Ranching is practiced in a climate region most similar to that of which other type of
agriculture? - Answer-Pastoral Nomadism
The different areas if the world where Mediterranean agriculture predominates have
similar - Answer-climate.
Which of the following is least likely to be produced in Mediterranean agriculture? -
Answer-Butter
The predominant form of agriculture in the U.S Southeast is - Answer-commercial
gardening.
Unlike other forms of commercial agriculture, plantations are - Answer-found
primarily in less developed countries.
What is the purpose of crop rotation? - Answer-maintaining the fertility of fields
von Thunen's model is used by geographers to explain - Answer-the importance of
proximity to the market in the choice of crops to the commercial farm.
, The primary factor in von Thunen' s model for choosing commercial farm products is
- Answer-market location.
Von Thunen's model can best be used to explain the location of which of the
following types of agriculture? - Answer-dairying in the Northeast United States
Which of the following is not a strategy for increasing food supply? - Answer-
increasing tariffs on grain exports
Less developed countries generate funds to promote development through - Answer-
selling export crops.
Farmers in LDC's choose to grow drug crops for export - Answer-based on their
market value in MDC's
Energy is defined as - Answer-the capacity to do work.
A substance in the physical environment that has value to human beings is -
Answer-a resource.
Which group consumes one-fourth of the world's energy, while only making up one-
twentieth of Earth's population? - Answer-North Americans
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, humans relied mostly on what kind of power? -
Answer-Animate
Before the Industrial Revolution, the most important source of fuel was - Answer-
biomass.
Fossil fuels are - Answer-finite resources, plants and animals buried millions of years
ago, and unevenly distributed around the world
Unconventional sources of oil like shales and tar sandstone are - Answer-accessible
by damaging the environment.
The United States has relatively large proven reserves of - Answer-coal.
To protest the United States's support for Israel in its 1973 war against Egypt,
Jordan, and Syria, during the winter of 1973-74, OPEC members - Answer-refused
to sell petroleum to the United States.
North Americans are less dependent than Europeans on nuclear energy primarily
because of - Answer-more abundant coal reserves.
During the Industrial Revelation MDC's converted from - Answer-animate power to
inanimate power.
MDC's - Answer-have historically possessed a disproportionately high percentage of
the world's fossil fuel reserves.
Exam Questions and Answers
Asian agriculture is characterized by shortages of all but which of the following? -
Answer-Labor
Intensive wet rice farming is the dominant type of agriculture in - Answer-EIndia,
most SE Asia, & SE China
Pastoral nomadism is most commonly found in which climate region? - Answer-Dry
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures is -
Answer-livestock ranching.
Commercial agriculture is distinguished from subsistence agriculture by - Answer-
farm size, surplus production, low percentage of farmers in the labor force, and
heavy use of machinery
Which of the following is the most common form of commercial agriculture in
Europe? - Answer-Mixed crop and livestock farming
Mixing crops and livestock allows farmers to - Answer-distribute the workload of the
crops and livestock evenly throughout the year
In the United States many farms are integrated into a large food production industry
are know as - Answer-agribusiness.
Ranching is practiced in a climate region most similar to that of which other type of
agriculture? - Answer-Pastoral Nomadism
The different areas if the world where Mediterranean agriculture predominates have
similar - Answer-climate.
Which of the following is least likely to be produced in Mediterranean agriculture? -
Answer-Butter
The predominant form of agriculture in the U.S Southeast is - Answer-commercial
gardening.
Unlike other forms of commercial agriculture, plantations are - Answer-found
primarily in less developed countries.
What is the purpose of crop rotation? - Answer-maintaining the fertility of fields
von Thunen's model is used by geographers to explain - Answer-the importance of
proximity to the market in the choice of crops to the commercial farm.
, The primary factor in von Thunen' s model for choosing commercial farm products is
- Answer-market location.
Von Thunen's model can best be used to explain the location of which of the
following types of agriculture? - Answer-dairying in the Northeast United States
Which of the following is not a strategy for increasing food supply? - Answer-
increasing tariffs on grain exports
Less developed countries generate funds to promote development through - Answer-
selling export crops.
Farmers in LDC's choose to grow drug crops for export - Answer-based on their
market value in MDC's
Energy is defined as - Answer-the capacity to do work.
A substance in the physical environment that has value to human beings is -
Answer-a resource.
Which group consumes one-fourth of the world's energy, while only making up one-
twentieth of Earth's population? - Answer-North Americans
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, humans relied mostly on what kind of power? -
Answer-Animate
Before the Industrial Revolution, the most important source of fuel was - Answer-
biomass.
Fossil fuels are - Answer-finite resources, plants and animals buried millions of years
ago, and unevenly distributed around the world
Unconventional sources of oil like shales and tar sandstone are - Answer-accessible
by damaging the environment.
The United States has relatively large proven reserves of - Answer-coal.
To protest the United States's support for Israel in its 1973 war against Egypt,
Jordan, and Syria, during the winter of 1973-74, OPEC members - Answer-refused
to sell petroleum to the United States.
North Americans are less dependent than Europeans on nuclear energy primarily
because of - Answer-more abundant coal reserves.
During the Industrial Revelation MDC's converted from - Answer-animate power to
inanimate power.
MDC's - Answer-have historically possessed a disproportionately high percentage of
the world's fossil fuel reserves.
