STEPHANIE COSGROVE: Hi, everyone.
Welcome to AP Daily practice sessions.
My name is Stephanie Cosgrove.
And I am coming to you from Coral Gables Senior High
School in Miami, Florida.
Today, we're going to be looking at another part
of the multiple choice questions.
We're going to be looking at multiple choice questions that
have a stimulus attached to the question.
So let's go ahead and get started.
I'm going to go over some tips that we can just
remember to help us answer the questions.
So the first thing that I would suggest
is read the entire question.
Don't skim it.
Read the whole thing and make sure you know what
that question is asking you.
Read all of the answer choices.
Read them all before you make your final decision,
use the process of elimination and cross out the ones that you
just totally know are wrong.
Select the best answer.
And finally, don't get stuck on a question that you don't know.
Move along and you can always come back to it.
As a reminder, you have 60 questions and 60 minutes.
So that amounts to about 1 minute per question.
So let's go ahead and do a multiple choice question
with stimulus attached.
So here we have a stimulus and our question.
We have a map of the DC area and the surrounding counties.
And then we have this table that indicates
the populations of Washington DC and surrounding areas
by decades.
So it starts from 1950 and it goes up to 2010.
And if you look at each column within that table
and you start at 1950, you know that there
are some pretty drastic changes as we go on
through the decades.
So from 1950, we see that some areas, Washington DC,
for example, is decreasing in population.
But the other areas are all increasing in population.
So we have Washington DC in the center, that's our core.
And then we've got the different counties from Montgomery County
to Prince George's County.
We've got Arlington just below DC.
And finally, we have Fairfax County.
So let's look at the five choices
and we'll read our question.
Which of the following phenomena can
be explained using the urban data presented
in the map and the table?
So we know what that table is about.
It's about the population changes through the decades.
We can see our map.
And so let's go through some of these choices that we have.
So we're thinking about, which of the following phenomena
can be explained using the urban data presented
in that map in the table?
Could it be A--
urbanization and the rise of the Industrial middle class.
So DC is not a big industrial core.
So we're going to say, no, it's not going to be that.
We can look at B-- suburbanization
and middle class flight from the urban core.
That sounds actually pretty good,
but we're going to read through all of them.
So I'm just going to put a question mark for this.
But we do notice that Washington DC is decreasing in population
from that urban core through the decades
and the other counties are growing.
But let's look at C-- deindustrialization
and the rise of the service workforce.
So again, that whole industrial thing or deindustrialization,
that doesn't really fit for this question.
D-- industrialization and the rise of an urban working class,
also does not really fit.
And then E-- gentrification and the movement
of the middle classes to the urban core.
Well, we're not seeing anyone moving to the urban core.
We're seeing them, they've moved out of it.
So we know that is not going to fit.
So let's see if I was right.
And wouldn't you know suburbanization
and middle class flight from the urban core
is the right response.
So this is how we're going to make
sure we're looking at the stimulus
and trying to choose the best responses.
So in our second question, we have a population pyramid,
and I know that you all are very familiar with population
pyramids.
And they look like a triangle or they
can look like an inverted upside down triangle.
This one, we have Ghana and it looks
like a pretty good triangle.
We can see the population at the bottom,
we see that male and female on either side.
And then our age cohorts in the center.
So which of the following patterns
is indicated by the population pyramid shown?
So let's look at the different choices.
A-- levels of education and contraceptive usage
are high among women.
Well, I'm going to say automatically no for that,
because if we look at our numbers of young people,
we know that contraceptive usage is not high among women.
So let's look at B. Government policies
encourage women to have multiple children.
To me, this doesn't really fit, because a government like Ghana
is probably not going to be having policy, making
policy to encourage women to have multiple children
when their population pyramid is looking like this.
So we're going to put an X through that.
What about letter C?
The population has a high total fertility rate.
That one looks pretty good, but we're going to read them all.
So we'll put a question mark there.
For our letter D, government policies
discourage women from having multiple children.
That is not what our population pyramid is indicating,
because it's looking like women are actually
having lots of kids.
And so our final one, the population
has a low infant mortality rate.
And by looking at that pyramid, that's
really not what is indicated there.
So we can look at C and be pretty confident
that C is going to be the best response.
But let's check to make sure and yeah.
C is the answer.
The population has a high total fertility rate.
So that was an easy one.
Let's look at one that's maybe a little bit more difficult.
So this one is a fun one to look at.
You have to look at your image pretty carefully.
And so let's read that question first, which of the following
best explains how the image represents
a cultural landscape.
So keyword, cultural landscape.
How is this image indicating the culture of the area?
So if we look at this image, I'm seeing signage.
And I see signage that is really in two different languages.
That big sign that says, Polskie Centrum Medyczne.
And I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right.
But clearly, that is not in English.
And so I'm thinking that that's most likely in Polish.
But if you look at that sign above it
where it says Apteka, and then it says Milwaukee [POLISH]..
And then below it, it says [SPANISH]
So we know here that we've got Spanish.
And we've got Polish.
And we have two different ethnicities probably living
in that same neighborhood, because otherwise,
why else would you have a Spanish sign
and a Polish sign in front of your building?
So we have to make sure that we're really
tying in our stimulus to the question.
So let's look at the different choices that we have.
Multiple ethnicities share the same space in the neighborhood
shown in the image.
Well, I like that answer but remember,
we're going to look at all of them.
The second one.
The space shown in the image is an example
of infilling within a specified neighborhood.
So actually, this is not what infill is.
And so that is not going to be the right response.
For the letter C, as shown in the image,
there are multiple ethnicities found within the city's
greenbelt. So multiple ethnicities,
yes, but within the city's greenbelt.
Milwaukee and the greenbelt. So that, we don't really know.
We don't see the greenbelt, anyways.
So we're going to say, no.
What about the process of suburbanization AS
shown in the image?
Often results in multiethnic neighborhoods.
So suburbanization.
This isn't necessarily suburbanization.
And suburbanization doesn't often
result in multiethnic neighborhoods.
So we're going to cancel that out.
And then our very last one, Brownfield development results
in the creation of multiethnic landscapes like the one shown
in the image.
So here we have, again, multiethnic landscapes.
And yes, that image does show a multiethnic landscape.
But that isn't Brownfield development.
So that is actually not going to work for us.
So we're going to cross out the letter E
and our best choice seems to be letter
A. Multiple ethnicities share the same space
in the neighborhood shown in the image.
Let's check to make sure that we were right.
And yep, there you go.
The answer was A.
So let's do a recap on some of our multiple choice tips.
Remember, we're really going to read that whole question
and make sure that we understand what it's asking us.
We're going to be reading all of our answer choices.
We're not going to just stop with one
that we think sounds OK.
We're going to read them all.
We're going to use the process of elimination
and cross out the choices that we know are wrong.
And then we're going to choose the best answer.
And we aren't going to get stuck just on one question.
We're not going to spend five minutes on it, because we
have 60 questions, 60 minutes, and we're
going to move on to the next one,
and we can always come back.
So I hope that these questions with the stimulus
were helpful for you and thank you so much for watching
and we'll see you next time.
Bye-bye.