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AP Human Geography practice questions by unit

Fiveable has 19,594 AP Human Geography multiple-choice practice questions across 7 units, plus 751 stimulus-based question sets built around a source. Practice one unit or topic at a time.

  • Unit 1 – Thinking Geographically: 1,524 multiple-choice questions, 44 stimulus sets
  • Unit 2 – Population and Migration: 3,612 multiple-choice questions, 147 stimulus sets
  • Unit 3 – Cultural Geography: 1,798 multiple-choice questions, 61 stimulus sets
  • Unit 4 – Political Geography: 2,341 multiple-choice questions, 89 stimulus sets
  • Unit 5 – Agriculture and Rural Land–Use: 3,964 multiple-choice questions, 118 stimulus sets
  • Unit 6 – Cities and Urban Land–Use: 3,799 multiple-choice questions, 152 stimulus sets
  • Unit 7 – Industrial and Economic Development: 2,556 multiple-choice questions, 140 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

Hierarchical diffusion dictates that innovations cascade from larger, more connected nodes to smaller ones. The passage demonstrates this by showing global cities and regional capitals adopting before smaller towns. The correct answer logically projects that nearby small towns will remain dependent on this downward filtering process despite their physical proximity to the origin. Distractor B contradicts the established leapfrogging pattern. Distractor C invents a network change unsupported by the text. Distractor D misapplies distance decay, ignoring that the towns do eventually adopt the style. Distractor E mischaracterizes the role of small towns, which are receivers rather than originators in this hierarchy.

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