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Human-Environmental Interaction (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

12 mins12 questions
11 mark

Which of the following is an example of environmental possibilism?

  • The development of a country’s economy can be dictated by its distance to the equator.

  • The use of irrigation systems in arid Australia

  • Island populations have differing characteristics from continental populations due to their remoteness

  • The warmth of the climate in Italy resulted in the fall of the Roman Empire, due to the relationship between warm weather and laziness.

  • The lactose intolerance of many people in East Asia, due to European domestication of the cow far earlier.

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21 mark

Which of the following best describes a feedback loop? 

  • When something is amplified or diminished by a particular event

  • A method of qualitative analysis after data collection. 

  • The development of environmental determinism to environmental possibilism

  • The conservation and protection of resources for current and future generations.

  • The gases released from burning fossil fuels

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31 mark

Which of the following describes how nature interacts with society?

  • The symbiotic relationship between animals and the environment 

  • Using renewable energy resources like solar power to help preserve resources for current and future generations.

  • The domestication of animals in modern society 

  • Anthropogeography 

  • The amount of a population that the environment can support and sustain.

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41 mark

Sustainability is

  • The use of naturally occurring things in the environment that humans value, such as oil or coal.

  • The conservation of resources for current and future generations, whilst reducing damage on the environment.

  • Using organic material for fuel

  • The idea that the environment controls how humans exist

  • The way humans build things, creating unique cultures across the world

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51 mark

Which of the following is not an example of a renewable resource?

  • Wind turbines

  • Solar panels

  • Tidal power

  • Biomass

  • Fresh water from aquifers

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61 mark

The Netherlands have a vast network of dams, canals and flood walls to combat the problem of much of the country being below sea level. This adaptation is known as 

  • Sustainability

  • Renewable energy

  • Environmental possibilism

  • Environmental determinism 

  • Land use

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71 mark

The relationship between the natural environment and human life is known as

  • Environmental possibilism

  • Sustainability

  • Environmental determinism

  • Human-Environmental Interaction

  • Cultural ecology

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81 mark

The study of how humans adapt to the environment is known as

  • Renewability

  • Cultural ecology

  • Environmental possibilism

  • Environmental determinism 

  • Cartography

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91 mark

The built environment refers to 

  • A place’s materiality, including natural and human features.

  • Somewhere that has meaning and connections attached to it.

  • The man-made environment in which humans exist 

  • The human marks of culture on a particular place

  • A location, without meaning attached to it.

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101 mark

The increase in global connectedness and interdependence is known as

  • Globalization 

  • Transnational Corporation

  • Environmental determinism

  • Sustainability

  • Environmental possibilism

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111 mark

Paul Vidal de la Blache is known to be an advocate of

  • Environmental determinism

  • Sustainability

  • Environmental possibilism

  • Cultural ecology

  • Sense of place

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121 mark

Environmental Determinism was coined by

  • Friedrich Ratze

  • Paul Vidal de la Blache

  • David Harvey

  • Halford Mackinder

  • Waldo Tobler

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