Barron's AP Human Geography
Vocabulary Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
footloose Industry -
correct answer ✅Manufacturing or other industry in which the
cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not
import for determining the location of the firm
fordism -
correct answer ✅System of standardized mass production
attributed to henry ford.
foreign Direct Investment -
correct answer ✅overseas business investments made by private
companies; typically involves purchase or construction of factories
by transnational corporations in areas where labor is typically
cheaper than on the homeland.
Formal Economy -
correct answer ✅The legal economy that is taxed and monitored
by a government and is included in a government's Gross National
Product; as opposed to an informal economy
Informal Economy -
correct answer ✅Economic activity that is neither taxed nor
,Barron's AP Human Geography
Vocabulary Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
monitored by a government; and is not included in that
government's Gross National Product; as opposed to a formal
economy
sense of place -
correct answer ✅term used to connote attachment to and comfort
in a particular place. most typically strong where you have been
born
Anti-natalist population policies -
correct answer ✅Encourages couples to limit the number of
children they have.
arithmetic density -
correct answer ✅Numer of people in a given unit of area. does not
take into account physiographic differences in that area
fast world -
correct answer ✅includes areas of the world, usually in the
economic core. Have high-speed telecommunication and
transportation technologies
,Barron's AP Human Geography
Vocabulary Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
slow world -
correct answer ✅includes developing world that does not
experience the benefits of high-speed telecommunication and
transportation technology
baby boomers -
correct answer ✅Consists of individuals born post world war II.
Largest population cohort in the USA
baby bust -
correct answer ✅following the baby boom the baby bust was a
period of time during the 1960s and 1970's when fertility rates in
the united states dropped. Happened because of women wanting
higher education
Cairo Plan -
correct answer ✅in 1994 the united nation, at the U.N
international conference on population and development,
endorsed a strategy to stabilize global population at 7.27 billion no
later than 2015.
, Barron's AP Human Geography
Vocabulary Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Carrying capacity -
correct answer ✅Essentially the number of people an area can
sustain without critically training is resource base. Depends on both
level of technology and determining an appropriate standard of
living.
Chain Migration -
correct answer ✅Describes migrant flows from a common origin
to the same destination. family or friends move first and get
established within an area, paving the way for more friends and
family to follow the same fate
channelized migration -
correct answer ✅The flows between a particular origin and
destination are larger than would normally be the case, but are not
the result of family or kinship ties as is the case with chain
migration. more peoples move than models predict
cornucopians -
correct answer ✅These people believe that with increasing
population come increasing opportunities for innovation. argued
against stricter population controls in the 1980's
Vocabulary Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
footloose Industry -
correct answer ✅Manufacturing or other industry in which the
cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not
import for determining the location of the firm
fordism -
correct answer ✅System of standardized mass production
attributed to henry ford.
foreign Direct Investment -
correct answer ✅overseas business investments made by private
companies; typically involves purchase or construction of factories
by transnational corporations in areas where labor is typically
cheaper than on the homeland.
Formal Economy -
correct answer ✅The legal economy that is taxed and monitored
by a government and is included in a government's Gross National
Product; as opposed to an informal economy
Informal Economy -
correct answer ✅Economic activity that is neither taxed nor
,Barron's AP Human Geography
Vocabulary Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
monitored by a government; and is not included in that
government's Gross National Product; as opposed to a formal
economy
sense of place -
correct answer ✅term used to connote attachment to and comfort
in a particular place. most typically strong where you have been
born
Anti-natalist population policies -
correct answer ✅Encourages couples to limit the number of
children they have.
arithmetic density -
correct answer ✅Numer of people in a given unit of area. does not
take into account physiographic differences in that area
fast world -
correct answer ✅includes areas of the world, usually in the
economic core. Have high-speed telecommunication and
transportation technologies
,Barron's AP Human Geography
Vocabulary Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
slow world -
correct answer ✅includes developing world that does not
experience the benefits of high-speed telecommunication and
transportation technology
baby boomers -
correct answer ✅Consists of individuals born post world war II.
Largest population cohort in the USA
baby bust -
correct answer ✅following the baby boom the baby bust was a
period of time during the 1960s and 1970's when fertility rates in
the united states dropped. Happened because of women wanting
higher education
Cairo Plan -
correct answer ✅in 1994 the united nation, at the U.N
international conference on population and development,
endorsed a strategy to stabilize global population at 7.27 billion no
later than 2015.
, Barron's AP Human Geography
Vocabulary Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Carrying capacity -
correct answer ✅Essentially the number of people an area can
sustain without critically training is resource base. Depends on both
level of technology and determining an appropriate standard of
living.
Chain Migration -
correct answer ✅Describes migrant flows from a common origin
to the same destination. family or friends move first and get
established within an area, paving the way for more friends and
family to follow the same fate
channelized migration -
correct answer ✅The flows between a particular origin and
destination are larger than would normally be the case, but are not
the result of family or kinship ties as is the case with chain
migration. more peoples move than models predict
cornucopians -
correct answer ✅These people believe that with increasing
population come increasing opportunities for innovation. argued
against stricter population controls in the 1980's
