Free AP Human Geography Exam: Industrial & Economic Development Question and Answers

Question 1

The Human Development Index positively correlates with which of the following?

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita

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infant mortality rate

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percentage of people employed in agriculture

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Question 2

All of the following are positively correlated with a nation's literacy rate EXCEPT

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birthrate

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energy consumption

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percentage of female employment

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standard of living

Question 3

What among the following does the Gender Inequality Index (GII) NOT include?

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The number of children born to each woman per thousand women.

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The percentage of women in the labor force compared to men.

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The number of women who die per hundred thousand births.

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The percentage of seats held by women in the national legislature.

Question 4

A secondary economic activity is which of the following?

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A factory turns the wood into a table

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A salesperson sells the table at a furniture store

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A lumberjack chops down a tree

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A geographer makes a map of furniture sales in a metropolitan region

Question 5

Which of the following stages of Rostow's stages of economic growth best describes a nation that is building out its infrastructure?

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Pre-conditions of take-off

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Age of mass consumption

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Drive to maturity

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Traditional society

Question 6

Which of the following models best explains how nineteenth-century colonialism affected modern trade patterns economically?

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Wallerstein’s World System Theory

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Richter Scale of Cultural Development

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Hoyt’s sector model

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Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth

Question 7

Which of the following best describes how industrialization should occur?

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Great Britain, continental Europe, Latin America, Africa

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continental Europe, Great Britain, Africa, Latin America

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continental Europe, Great Britain, Africa, Latin America

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Great Britain, continental Europe, Africa, Latin America