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Regional Analysis (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

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11 mark

Which of the following is a good example of a Vernacular/Perceptual location?

  • A school catchment area

  • The State of Florida

  • A China Town located in the inner city

  • Medieval castle walls

  • US-Mexico border

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21 mark

Formal locations are 

  • Organized around a central node, defined by an activity that takes place over the region

  • Uniformed areas, where people have similar characteristics

  • Representations of cultural identities, instead of a firm or formal border.

  • Areas that share characteristics with other regions but still show uniqueness

  • Defined based on characteristics or activities that are distinct from another

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31 mark
Map of disputed regions in South Asia, showing Pakistan, India, China, and territories of Azad Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Ladakh, Aksai Chin.

In Kashmir, the territory borders of India, Pakistan and China are unclear. This is known as

  • Formal region

  • Overlapping regional boundaries

  • Vernacular region

  • Relic border

  • Demilitarized zone

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41 mark

The model on land use which describes the relationship between how much land costs and how much goods cost to transport was created by which geographer? 

  • Johann Heinrich Von Thünen 

  • Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman 

  • Ernest Burgess

  • Homer Hoyt

  • Harm de Blij

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51 mark
Map of the South China Sea showing various territorial claims, boundaries, and key regions including Spratly Islands, with a legend explaining symbols.

Refer to the image above. This map shows a map of the highly contested territory claims in the South China Sea. Which description best explains these territory limits? 

  • Regional boundary

  • Hard border

  • Airspace border

  • Demilitarized zone

  • Relic border

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61 mark

What statement best describes a hinterland?

  • The production of corn in America’s midwest and southern regional belts.

  • Regions for sea production and exchange of goods.

  • Ranching and agriculture in the Great Plains

  • Small towns surrounding a city rely on central cities for goods and services.

  • Central areas in a country that holds power politically, culturally and economically. 

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71 mark

Names for places are known as

  • Toponyms

  • Regions

  • Vernacular

  • Functional

  • Formal

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81 mark

Which of the following is not a formal region?

  • The European Union

  • Bible Belt

  • Florida, USA

  • The Nations within the United Kingdom

  • The Sahara Desert

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91 mark

The division of the earth into smaller sections, which are inherently different from each other, is known as

  • Demilitarization

  • Borders

  • Consequent boundary

  • Regionalization

  • Toponymy

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101 mark

Which of the following is a good example of a functional region?

  • Power grids

  • National parks

  • The Arctic circle

  • The Bermuda Triangle

  • The Outback

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