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Land-Use Patterns & Agriculture (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

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11 mark
Coloured map of the United States showing varying data distribution by county. The map uses a spectrum from yellow to purple to represent differences.
Population distribution in the USA

What kind of settlement pattern does the North of the United States symbolize?

  • Dispersed

  • Clustered

  • Nucleated

  • Linear

  • Terraced

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21 mark

Which survey method uses land’s physical features to identify property lines?

  • Deforestation

  • Long lots

  • Nucleated settlement

  • Metes and Bounds

  • Township and Range

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31 mark

Which survey method best coincides with linear settlement patterns?

  • Long lots

  • Township and range

  • Metes and Bounds

  • Intensive

  • Terraced

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41 mark

Where might you find a linear settlement pattern?

  • Along transport routes like roads or railway lines

  • Scattered across rural land, like farms. 

  • Close together, surrounding somewhere like a church.

  • Surrounding a central space such as a lake.

  • In wide valleys or alluvial plains

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51 mark

Which of the following is an example of metes?

  • Thin areas of land running next to a river

  • Plots of land 6 miles long and wide

  • 10 metres from the oak tree

  • Nearby the stream

  • 640 acres

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