AP HuG Unit 6 Review

What is the process of settlement formation, expansion and change called?

• Urbanization

• City growth

• Urban decay

• Suburbanization

The differences between urban and rural areas include social heterogeneity, large size, and:

• Low density

• Crime rate

• High density

• Poverty rate

A clustering of tall office buildings, shopping malls, and apartment complexes at the intersection of major interstate highways is called

• Suburban sprawl

• Urban sprawl

• Suburban densification

• Edge cities

When a low-income neighborhood becomes more expensive to live in and forces the current residents out, this is known as

• Redlining

• Blockbusting

• Gentrification

• Smart growth

According to __________________________ , the two largest cities in a country will have the most interaction between them

• Gravity Model

• Sector Model

• Central Place Theory

• Multiple Nuclei Model

Mixed-use development, pedestrian-friendly design, and the incorporation of front porches and alleys are design elements of which of the following?

• Zero growth

• Transit-oriented development

• Urbanization

• New Urbanism

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

• New Urbanism

• Sprawl

• Smart growth

• Transit oriented development

Inner city challenges fall into three basic categories:

• Economic, social, environmental

• Economic, physical, environmental

• Social, physical, environmental

• Economic, social, physical

Which of the following is a challenge inner city neighborhoods face?

• A declining underclass

• Lack of social and economic diversity

• A growing housing stock

• Culture of poverty

The recent trend of metropolitan residents moving to rural areas and small towns is referred to as

• Out-migration

• Interregional migration

• Intraregional migration

• Incorporation