Question 1

Antarctica is a desert.

Accepted Answer

True. Antarctica is a desert.
Key Takeaway: Although most people think of deserts being hot, dry, and sandy, polar deserts on Earth cover almost 5 million kilometers and are made mostly of bedrock and/or gravel. Antarctica is the world's largest cold desert. Some of the barren rock that exists in Antarctica almost never gets snowfall. These areas have gigantic ice-encrusted saline (salty) lakes that rapidly evaporate due to the fierce Antarctic wind.

Question 2

Who was Thomas Malthus?&#10;A)A British scholar who made the idea of paying rent popular.&#10;B)A pastor who was greatly influential in the British economy.&#10;C)A British scholar who worried that rampant population growth would decrease the possibility of moving toward a utopian society.&#10;D)All of the above

Accepted Answer

All of the above. Thomas Malthus was a British scholar and pastor who popularized the economic theory of rent, was greatly influential in the political economy, and worried that rampant population growth would decrease the possibility of moving toward a utopian society.
Key Takeaway: Thomas Robert Malthus was a British scholar and pastor, who was greatly influential in the political economy and anthropological circles. Malthus originally made the idea of rent popular and thought that rampant population growth would preclude progressing towards a utopian society (which was a social ideal of his time).

Question 3

What is the best description for the geographic concept of &#34;nation&#34;?&#10;A)It is the equivalent of a country or state.&#10;B)It is a population and area controlled by an organized government.&#10;C)It is a population with a single religion and government.&#10;D)It is a population represented by a single culture.

Accepted Answer

The best description for the geographic concept of "nation" is a population represented by a singular culture.
Key Takeaway: A nation is a group of people who share a common history, language, tradition, culture,, and/or ethnic origin. To qualify as a nation, they do not necessarily need a representative state (such as the Armenians, the Kurds, or the Palestinians).

Question 4

Which of the following statements about hunting and gathering is true?&#10;A)It is a nomadic life.&#10;B)It is still practiced today.&#10;C)All humans were hunters and gatherers before the advent of agriculture.&#10;D)All of the above

Accepted Answer

All of the above. Hunting and gathering is a form of nomadism, it is still practiced today, and all humans got their food this way before the advent of agriculture.
Key Takeaway: Hunter-gatherer society, also called nomadic hunting and gathering, is one whose primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, through foraging and hunting, without significantly domesticating either group. Nomadic hunting and gathering the oldest human subsistence method and was largely replaced by the advent of agriculture.

Question 5

What is the concept wherein physical geographic factors like climate, soils, and resources shape a specific cultural group's behavior and practices?&#10;A)Environmental determinism&#10;B)Eco-Convergence&#10;C)Physical determinism&#10;D)Environmental imperialism

Accepted Answer

Environmental determinism is the concept wherein physical factors like climate, soils, and resources shape a specific cultural group's behavior and practices.
Key Takeaway: Geographic determinism, also known as environmental determinism, is the idea that culture is determined by the surrounding physical environment, rather than by social conditions. People who believe this say that humans are strictly defined by environment behavior and cannot deviate.

Question 6

Why does gerrymandering adjust voting district boundaries?&#10;A)To benefit the interest of a group or political party&#10;B)To attempt to have an equal amount of constituents in demographics like age and gender&#10;C)To ensure that all districts are the same size and shape&#10;D)Gerrymandering does not adjust voting district boundaries.

Accepted Answer

Gerrymandering adjusts voting district boundaries to benefit the interest of a group or political party.
Key Takeaway: Gerrymandering refers to re-forming a city limit's boundaries for electoral purposes. This usually creates a contorted or unusual shape known as a gerrymander. Gerrymandering may be used to achieve desired electoral results for a particular party, or may be used to help or hinder a particular group of constituents, (such as with political, racial, linguistic, religious or class groups).

Question 7

What was the large-scale decline in the Native American population during the decades following European settlement from 1492 onward largely caused by?&#10;A)Infectious diseases introduced by European colonists and explorers&#10;B)Large numbers of Native Americans moved to Europe.&#10;C)Warfare with the invading European armies&#10;D)Forced labor and slavery in colonial plantations

Accepted Answer

The large-scale decline in the Native American population during the decades following European settlement from 1492 onward was largely caused by infectious diseases introduced by European colonists and explorers.
Key Takeaway: In the sixteenth century, the sudden arrival of Europeans in the New World caused immense devastation and destruction of the Native American population due to new diseases. The conquistadors of Spain brought smallpox with them to the New World, infecting native populations in order to gain control of the land. Later, Europeans also brought influenza, typhus, diphtheria, and measles to the New World.

Question 8

What does the Green Revolution refer to?&#10;A)The introduction of hybrid crops to promote the development of agriculture&#10;B)Cities introducing larger amounts of green space&#10;C)The new interest in green business and production&#10;D)The local foods movement

Accepted Answer

The Green Revolution refers to the introduction of hybrid crops to promote the development of agriculture.
Key Takeaway: The Green Revolution refers to the transformation of agriculture that began in 1945 to create hybrid crops that could outperform traditional heirloom varieties to feed rapidly growing populations. The projects within the Green Revolution spread technologies that had already existed in industrialized nations like irrigation advances, nitrogen fertilizer (made artificially), genetically-modified products, and pesticides to less-industrialized countries.

Question 9

What two regions did the Erie Canal connect?&#10;A)South to North&#10;B)West to Northeast&#10;C)Southeast to West&#10;D)Southeast to Midwest

Accepted Answer

The Erie Canal connected the West to the Northeast.
Key Takeaway: The Erie Canal was built in 1817-1825 and stretched from Albany to Buffalo, therefore connecting New York City (and thereby, the world) to the Midwest via the Great Lakes. By 1837, the canal system consisted of more than three thousand miles of canals, bringing people, jobs, and goods to small towns along the canal system.

Deck 1: Advanced Placement Human Geography