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AP Human Geography practice questions by unit

Fiveable has 17,615 AP Human Geography multiple-choice practice questions across 7 units, plus 740 stimulus-based question sets built around a source. Practice one unit or topic at a time.

  • Unit 1 – Thinking Geographically: 1,377 multiple-choice questions, 44 stimulus sets
  • Unit 2 – Population and Migration: 3,368 multiple-choice questions, 144 stimulus sets
  • Unit 3 – Cultural Geography: 1,602 multiple-choice questions, 60 stimulus sets
  • Unit 4 – Political Geography: 2,112 multiple-choice questions, 89 stimulus sets
  • Unit 5 – Agriculture and Rural Land–Use: 3,489 multiple-choice questions, 118 stimulus sets
  • Unit 6 – Cities and Urban Land–Use: 3,362 multiple-choice questions, 149 stimulus sets
  • Unit 7 – Industrial and Economic Development: 2,305 multiple-choice questions, 136 stimulus sets

Sample AP Human Geography practice question

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A clothing style appears first among performers in two global cities, then in regional capitals, and later in smaller towns. Several towns near the global cities adopt later than distant regional capitals connected through media and retail networks.

Which of the following is the most likely outcome of the diffusion pattern described?

The style will reach them only after filtering downward through the established urban hierarchy.

Correct answer

Their physical proximity to global cities will eventually cause them to adopt styles simultaneously.

They will bypass regional capitals by establishing direct retail connections with the global cities.

The clothing style will fail to reach them entirely due to the friction of distance.

They will become new nodes of cultural innovation for the surrounding rural agricultural areas.

Explanation

The style appears first in global cities, then regional capitals, then smaller towns, and nearby towns adopt later than distant, well-connected capitals. That is hierarchical diffusion, so the most likely outcome is that these towns get the style only after it filters down through the urban hierarchy. Simultaneous adoption from proximity is contradicted by the stimulus. Bypassing the capitals through direct retail links has no support in the passage. Complete failure to adopt ignores that the towns do adopt later. Becoming innovation hubs misreads their role as receivers.

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