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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a common impact of urbanization regardless of a country’s level of economic development?
Urbanization means a loss of agricultural production due to the loss of farmland and farmworkers.
Urbanization leads to a more egalitarian society as the difference between urban and rural lifestyles is reduced
Urbanization creates a larger cultural and economic gap between urban and rural areas
Urbanization creates a labor force with a diversity of job skills and compensation levels.
Urbanization creates socially and economically diverse cities that have little social conflict.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following similarities best explains why cities such as Venice, Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Marseilles were early front-runners in urban development in Western Europe?
These cities were early hearths of domestication, functioning as centers of agricultural production.
These port cities were centers of trade, serving as links in terms of capital and labor mobility.
These cities were hubs of population growth, rapidly expanding to become the first megacities.
These industrial cities were centers of manufacturing, supplying Western Europe with new technology.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which site factor best explains the linear pattern of urbanized areas extending between Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston?
The development of cities in the region was influenced by the abundance of deep-water harbors and waterfalls where the flat coastal plains met higher lands.
The development of urbanized areas in the region was influenced by the ability to easily transport goods between coastal areas and the interior of the country.
The growth of cities in the region was influenced by the accessibility of raw materials and markets through rivers and canals.
The development of urbanized areas in the region was influenced by growing trade networks between Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.
The growth of urbanized areas in the region was influenced by many cities achieving dominance as political, financial, and informational capitals.
- 4. Multiple Choice
All of the following are reasons for the rise of suburban development in the 1950s
EXCEPT
The building of interstate highways
The G.I. Bill of Rights
Better public transportation
The desire for more space
Prefab construction methods
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains why countries such as Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), Kazakhstan, and Nigeria would construct a new capital city in a different location from the old capital city?
To attract world trade to a new site
To distance the new capital cities from the countries' colonial histories
To be better protected from foreign invasion
To be better situated along transportation networks
To build modern, planned cities and administrative centers
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT a reason for rapid suburbanization in the United States after the Second World War?
Mass production of the automobile
Reduction in long-distance commuting
Expansion of home construction
Expansion of the interstate highway system
Availability of low down payment terms and long-term mortgages
- 7. Multiple Choice
An example of an important physical site characteristic is a
Major airport
Grid street pattern
Major central park
Natural harbor
Public sports facility
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a correct statement about the major cities of the world?
Most are located on rivers or seacoasts.
Most are found in areas that are not very suitable for agriculture.
Most primate cities are located in the United States and western Europe.
They are concentrated between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.
The world's fastest-growing cities are found in areas with the highest standards of living.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Historically, the growth of North American suburbs was most constrained by
High land values
Zoning ordinances
Limited transportation
Housing shortages
Cultural preferences
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following defines Chicago’s position in relation to the infrastructure of the United States?
Site
Situation
Absolute location
Vernacular region
Transition Zone
- 11. Multiple Choice
According to central place theory, the threshold is defined as the
economic base of a central place
distance away from a central place
gross value of the product minus the costs of production
minimum number of people needed to support a service
point at which consumer movement is at a minimum
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains why New York City has more specialized stores than do smaller urban places in the United States?
Its status as a primate city
The rank-size rule
The gravity model
Central place theory
The Burgess concentric zone model
- 13. Multiple Choice
In the fundamentals of central place theory, which of the following terms is defined as the maximum distance a consumer will travel to acquire a good or service?
Distance decay
Threshold
Cost-to-distance ratio
Relative location
Range
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following groups of cities contains the best examples of central places with large hinterlands?
San Diego, Milwaukee, and New Haven
Atlanta, Denver, and Calgary
Baltimore, Ottawa, and Duluth
Las Vegas, Victoria, and Buffalo
Miami, Philadelphia, and Quebec City
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes a primate city?
It is economically and politically inter-connected to other cities in the world.
It is disproportionately large in relation to the next largest cities in that country.
It is surrounded by walls like a fortress.
It is linked by colonial administrators to an imperial power.
It is primarily concerned with its role as a religious center.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Central place theory describes the
spatial patterns of urban and outlying areas based on the flow of goods and services
tendency of different ethnic groups to congregate in a single location
tendency of civilizations to form around certain natural features
outward radiation of cultural patterns from a central place
tendency of wealth to concentrate in urban core areas
- 17. Multiple Choice
What aspect of the design of Brasília, Canberra, and Washington, D.C., was different from the design of most other urban centers?
They were designed as show places to reflect the power and wealth of their respective countries
Their design was based largely on transportation systems to allow for efficient movement of raw materials and finished products.
They were planned around a major river to allow ease of movement of foodstuffs from the hinterland to the city
They were positioned near the center of their respective countries to help protect them from enemy attack.
They were designed to utilize the hydro-power potential of the nearby rivers to attract manufacturing firms.
- 18. Multiple Choice
The number of functions in a central place is dependent on all of the following EXCEPT the
Population of the central place
Population of the market area
Size of the market area
Distance to a place with similar functions
Total number of central places in the urban system
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a general theory in geography that can be used to quantify and predict the interaction between two cities based on population sizes, distance between the places, the number of migrants moving from one place to the other, or the flow of trade goods between the two locations?
Central place theory
World system theory
Concentric zone model
Multiple nuclei model
Gravity model
- 20. Multiple Choice
A primate city such as Mexico City is
always located in the center of its country for maximum accessibility
more than twice the size of any other city in its country and dominant economically and culturally
most likely to share its rank size with at least one other city in the country
always a national capital serving as the seat of government and industrial center of the country
much larger than the cities in any neighboring country and serves as the region’s financial capital
- 21. Multiple Choice
According to the sector model of North American city structure, members of low-income groups tend to live in which of the following places?
The inner city only
Peripheral temporary settlements
Linear residential areas radiating from the center city outward
Evenly dispersed throughout the urban area
The suburbs and rural areas only
- 22. Multiple Choice
Most Latin American cities are focused on a
central plaza
government housing project
zone of heavy industry
skyscraper office building
squatter settlement
- 23. Multiple Choice
The multiple-nuclei model of city structure tends to be most applicable to
small cities
traditional cities
Latin American cities
newer, fast-growing cities
cities with homogeneous land use
- 24. Multiple Choice
The galactic city model was developed in response to the growth of suburbs and the need for a more
complex model than the sector and concentric zone models. Which of the following is a strength of the
galactic city model?
It depicts exurban nodes.
It depicts a central business district.
It depicts early-twentieth-century industrial cities.
It is based on the location of an international airport.
It is based on the decrease of urban sprawl.
- 25. Multiple Choice
An advantage of the Harris and Ullman multiple nuclei model over the Burgess concentric zone model and
the Hoyt sector model of internal city structure is that the multiple nuclei model
easily incorporates depiction of linear and areal physical relief features
allows for the central business district to be situated in an edge city
is also applicable to rural areas beyond the urban periphery
easily incorporates construction of a new airport on the urban periphery
has a monocentric focus that limits the inclusion of urban sprawl
- 26. Multiple Choice
Which of the following models best represents an old colonial port zone and its surrounding commercial districts?
Southeast Asian city model
Galactic city model
Islamic city model
Islamic city model
Multiple nuclei model
- 27. Multiple Choice
Using the diagram above, at what distance from the central business district will recreational land use begin to outbid all other land uses?
About 3 miles
About 6 miles
About 10 miles
About 12 miles
About 18 miles
- 28. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a true statement about classic models of city structure?
The concentric zone model does not have a transitional area.
The sector model is highly influenced by transportation patterns.
The central business district has the most dominant position in the multiple nuclei model.
The multiple nuclei model and the sector model are similar in that they both have only one core.
The interaction between the central city and the suburbs is greatest in the urban realm model.
- 29. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is unique among Latin American countries in that its capital represents the concept
of a forward capital?
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
Peru
- 30. Multiple Choice
Which of the following models of urban structure depicts a commercial spine bordered by an elite
residential sector extending outward from the central business district?
Urban realms
Concentric zone
Multiple nuclei
Latin American city
Southeast Asian city
- 31. Multiple Choice
Which of the following types of urban land use is most common on the periphery of cities in Latin America?
plaza surrounded by a central business district
Parks and recreation areas
Upper-class residential developments
Residential squatter settlements
Rail transportation corridors
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