Unit 7 Practice Test

1.

1 point

In Chauncey Harris and Edward Ulman's Multiple Nuclei Model which of the following are nodes of activities?

Hospital centers

University centers

Central business district

All of these options

2.

1 point

one major difference between land us in Europe and US cities is that

European cities usually have more dispersed populations than US cities

Wealthy European cities are less likely to have ring roads than US cities

European suburbs are less likely to have high crime rates than US suburbs

wealthy Europeans are more likely than wealthy Americans to live close to center cities

3.

1 point

According to the Burgess Model of urban development, the outer most ring is the

Zone of independent workers

Zone of better residences

Zone of transition

The commuter zone

4.

1 point

The concentric zone model and sector model were based on which of the following cities?

Chicago

Austin

Philadelphia

New York

5.

1 point

Which of the following is not an example of an urban hearth?

Rome

Mesopotamia

Indus River Valley

Mesoamerica

6.

1 point

The physical qualities of the original location of a city is referred to as the

site

form

situation

function

7.

1 point

Many of the poor on the periphery of cities in less developed countries live in areas known as

white flight

squatter settlements

public housing

redlining

8.

1 point

World cities are defined as

a large number of businesses services

their are a lot of them

how they compare to alpha cities

the amount of people living in the city

9.

1 point

Grid street patterns are most typical for cities in

Europe

North America

Southeast Asia

Latin America

10.

1 point

All of the following are typical site and/or situation characteristics for the establishment of a settlement except

the middle of a plain

on the shores of a natural harbor

a high point overlooking a river

along side a river

11.

1 point

A city grows outward from a central location in a series of rings in the

Galactic Model

Concentric Zone Model

Multiple Nuclei Model

Latin American Model

12.

1 point

A city that has 10 million inhabitants or more is defined as

urbanization

central place

megacity

megaopolis

13.

1 point

Chauncey Harris's peripheral model is focused on describing a central city in relationship to

Bid rent curve

Public Housing

Edge Cities

the CBD

14.

1 point

According to the Burgess model, the housing stock is most deteriorated and a sizable percentage of residents are immigrants in the

Zone of urban renewal

Central Business District

Zone of transition

Zone of independent workers

15.

1 point

Which of the following factors lead to humans originally living in urban areas?

the development of a writing system

protection from barbarians

a surplus in agricultural goods

the luxury of running water

16.

1 point

In the US overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas eventually lead to conurbanization or

many metropolitan statistical areas

a megalopolis

cooperative regional council governments

A standard metropolitan statistical area

17.

1 point

Infrastructure can be defined as

Roads needed to support urban sprawl

all the facilities that support basic economic activities a city needs to function

Corridors needed to support high population densities

a process of filtering

18.

1 point

Young single recent college graduates who move into distressed inner city neighborhoods and refurbish there new residences would be an example of

white flight

gentrification

filtering

blockbustering

19.

1 point

In Hoyt's Sector Model lower income neighborhoods are usually located

north of the CBD

adjacent to the industrial and transportation corridors

on the east side of a city

in a wedge that extends from the CBD

20.

1 point

Which urban model best explains the spatial impact of automobiles and the construction of interstate highways on metropolitan areas in the US?

Peripheral Model

Multiple Nuclei Model

Concentric Model

Hoyt's Sector Model

21.

1 point

Which of the following is a characteristic Latin American cities have in common?

three distinct central business districts

a ring of transportation systems around the city

a spine of high class housing extending from the CBD

a boulevard of squatter settlements extending from the CBD

22.

1 point

Unrestricted low-density development of residential and commercial activities over a large expanse of land is

New Urbanism

Transit Orientation

Smart Growth

Sprawl

23.

1 point

Large cities develop many nodes around which different types of people and activities cluster. This describes the

Latin American Model

Sector Model

Southeast Asian Model

Multiple Nuclei Model

24.

1 point

Three categories sociologist Louis Wirth used to differentiate between urban and rural areas includes

Social heterogeneity, poverty rate, and small size

High density, social heterogeneity, and large size

Crime rate, social heterogeneity, and high density

Diversity, large size, and poverty rate

25.

1 point

Settlement geography can be explained by which of the following theories?

The Rank-Size Rule and Central Place Theory

Central Place Theory and Demographic Transition Model

Epidemiology Transition Model and Concentric Zone Model

Sector Model and Thomas Malthus' Theory

26.

1 point

During the 19th which mode of transportation lead to the growth of cities?

wagons

railroads

automobiles

airplanes

27.

1 point

Medieval European cities form can best be described as

a circular street pattern

chaotic street patterns

parallel street patterns

a grid street pattern

28.

1 point

The two continents with the most linkage between their wold cities are

Europe and Africa

North America and Europe

North America and South America

Europe and Asia

29.

1 point

Urbanization accelerated as a result of

The discovery of oil

The industrial revolution

Increasing international trade

Colonization

30.

1 point

The urban form of Islamic cities can best be identified as having

narrow chaotic road patterns

a grid pattern

a mosque in the center of the city

a city that has characteristics of colonial powers