Human Geography - Spring 2019 Final Exam Review

The world's largest state is

• China
• Canada
• United States
• Russia

An area organized into a independent political unit is a 

• colony
• territory
• satellite
• State

Poland is an example of a ____ state.

• elongated
• fragmented
• compact
• prorupted

A country that has no access to water is a ___ country.

• Compact
• Landlocked
• Island Nation
• Elongated

The concept that an ethnic group would have the right to govern themselves.

• Balkanization
• Self-Determination
• Sovereignty
• Anocracy

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

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

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

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

This map shows the amount of land that has been converted from farmland to residential use. This unchecked spread of residential areas beyond city limits is called

• urban sprawl

• urban growth

• urban expansion

• urban footprint

Inner-city residents  who face an unending cycle of social and economic issues are called a  permanent

• poor class.
• underclass.
• poverty class.
• homeless class.