AP Human Geography Unit 7 Practice Test: Industrial and Economic Development
Unit 7 explains why some places are richer than others and how the world economy connects them. You will trace industrialisation, use economic sectors and measures such as GDP, HDI and the Gender Inequality Index, and compare development theories, trade and sustainable development.
Exam weighting:
12–17%
Questions:
22 multiple choice
Time:
about 29 minutes
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What AP Human Geo Unit 7 covers
Unit 7, Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes, makes up 12–17% of the multiple-choice section and usually takes ~19–20 class periods. These are the topics in the current course framework, and every question in the test above is tagged with one of them.
7.1The Industrial Revolution
7.2Economic Sectors and Patterns
7.3Measures of Development
7.4Women and Economic Development
7.5Theories of Development
7.6Trade and the World Economy
7.7Changes as a Result of the World Economy
7.8Sustainable Development
Unit 7 key ideas
Industry spread from Britain
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the late 1700s with coal, iron and textiles, then spread to Europe, North America and East Asia. Weber's least cost theory explains factory location by transport, labour and agglomeration costs.
Economic sectors shift with development
Primary activities extract resources, secondary activities manufacture, tertiary activities provide services, and quaternary and quinary sectors handle information and high-level decisions. As countries develop, employment shifts from primary toward tertiary.
Development is measured many ways
GDP and GNI per capita measure output; the Human Development Index combines income, education and life expectancy; the Gender Inequality Index measures inequality in health, empowerment and the labour market. Measures can hide inequality within a country.
Theories explain uneven development
Rostow's stages of growth expect every country to move toward high mass consumption. Wallerstein's world-systems theory divides the world into core, semi-periphery and periphery. Dependency theory argues that colonial and trade relationships keep poorer countries dependent. Outsourcing, export processing zones and free trade agreements reshape where work happens.
Common Unit 7 mistakes
Using GDP per capita as a measure of quality of life; HDI and GII capture health, education and gender.
Saying Rostow's model shows countries are trapped; that is dependency or world-systems thinking.
Placing quaternary jobs (information, research) in the secondary sector.
How to study this unit
For each development measure, write what it includes and one thing it misses.
Compare Rostow and Wallerstein in two columns: what each assumes, and one criticism.
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