AP Human Geography Unit 3: Patterns and Processes

AP Human Geography Unit 3: Practice Test 1. What is the World's fastest-growing religion? a) Christianity b) Hinduism c) Islam d) Buddhism e) Judaism c) Islam 2. Which language has become the world's primary lin- e) English gua franca? a) Mandarin Chinese b) Hindi c) German d) Spanish e) English 3. Which of the following is the largest proselytizing religion? a) Hinduism b) Christianity c) Islam d) Buddhism e) Shintoism b) Christianity 4. Regionalization would best explain the characteristic e) folk culture of the study of . . . a) popular culture b) adaptive strategies c) built environment d) material culture e) folk culture 5. Which of the following best exemplifies folk culture? c) Cajun music a) a dialect that is similar in two different regions of the country b) the purchasing of rap music by white suburban youth c) Cajun music d) eating Chinese food in New York City e) the burial of the dead 1/5 6. Where is one of the hearths of country music? a) Galveston, Texas b) Montgomery, Alabama c) Atlanta, Georgia d) Nashville, Tennessee e) Charlotte, North Carolina d) Nashville, Tennessee 7. A good example of a monolingual country would be . a) Japan .. a) Japan b) Canada c) Switzerland d) South Africa e) Turkey 8. When European Settlers established relations with b) trade language Native Americans, a new language was created to ease the translation for both groups. What is that language called? a) constitutional language b) trade language c) creole language d) official language e) indigenous language 9. Which of the following religions is the best example of a) Shintoism a polytheistic religion? a) Shintoism b) Judaism c) Atheism d) Christianity e) Islam 10. Which of the following statements best explains the diffusion of Muslims? a) the country with the largest amount of Muslims is India because they were born there b) the country with the largest amount of Muslims is Saudi Arabia since it is the hearth os the religion 2/5 e) the country with the largest amount of Muslims is Iran due to the presence of the Shiite branch c) the country with the largest amount of Muslims is the United States due to immigration patterns d) the country with the largest amount of Muslims is Indonesia due to trade routes e) the country with the largest amount of Muslims is Iran due to the presence of the Shiite branch 11. Where in the United States does Roman Catholicism a) southern New dominate? England a) southern New England b) Southwest c) Pacific Northwest d) Southeast e) Midwest 12. Many Islamic states in the Middle East region combine d) Theocracy religion and state and don't separate them. This is an example of what? a) Monotheism b) Plural Society c) Democracy d) Theocracy e) Multilingual Society 13. The two primary Eastern religions of Hinduism and Buddhism each have their hearths located where? a) Jerusalem, Israel b) Western Saudi Arabia c) Eastern China d) Southeast Asia e) Northern India e) Northern India 14. What is the largest polytheistic religion in the world? c) Hinduism a) Christianity b) Islam c) Hinduism d) Shintoism e) Animism 15. d) Swahili 3/5 What language is known as the lingua franca of Eastern Africa? a) Hindi b) English c) French d) Swahili e) Zulu 16. What percentage of the world's languages are expect- a) 90 percent ed to die out within the next century? a) 90 percent b) 75 percent c) 50 percent d) 25 percent e) 10 percent 17. Which distinctive cultural region in the United States e) Tejano has its own food, music, and language along the border with Mexico? a) Italian-American b) Swedish-American c) Cajun d) Creole e) Tejano 18. Which of the following is the best example of folk food? a) Hamburgers in the United States b) Pizza in the United States c) McDonald's french fries in Germany d) KFC in China e) Blowfish in Japan e) Blowfish in Japan 19. The modern game of soccer (football) spread to many c) Relocation parts of the world because of British colonization. This is an example of what type of diffusion? a) Expansion b) Hierarchical c) Relocation d) Stimulus 4/5 e) Contagious