AP Human Geography Chapter 13: Urban Patterns

Human geographers use ____  as a more precise term for "downtown."

• Central Business District (CBD)
• Urban Business District
• Service Business District
• City Business District

Which is NOT a characteristic of retail services that are located in CBDs?

• They are consumer businesses with a high threshold
• They are consumer businesses with a high range
• They are consumer businesses who serve CBD workers
• They are consumer businesses that sell only expensive merchandise

What is the best title for the chart in this image?

• Food Sustainability
• Food Deserts
• Food Inequality
• Food Distribution

Which is NOT a correct statement concerning the Latin American cities model?

• Infrastructure is more developed close to the city's canter and spine.
• The wealthy live in the city center and along the spine.
• The disamenity zones are home to the poorer residents.
• Economic and cultural amenities are located within the spine.

According to this model, a city grows in rings around the Central Business District.

• Concentric Zone Model
• Multiple Nuclei Model
• Sector Model
• Latin America Model

This theory revises the Concentric Zones Model, saying that cities grow in wedges or corridors often as a result of environmental conditions.

• Sector Model
• Latin America Model
• Multiple Nuclei Model
• Islamic City Model

Urban areas in the USA are divided into _____ that each contain about 5000 people, and often correspond to existing neighborhood boundaries.

• urban tracts
• subdivisions
• census tracts
• social area tracts

Outside of North America, _____ people live in CBDs, resulting in a wider array of consumer services for the residents.

• more
• less

Between 175 million and 1 billion people live in ________, areas that have few consumer services, because neither the city nor the residents can afford them.

• squatter settlements
• urban zones
• public housing
• disamenity zones

Mexico City, once known as Tenochtitlan, is an example of a ______.

• global city
• precolonial city
• indigenous city
• nodal city