APHG - Unit 6 Vocab Quiz

A model showing a CBD that is divided into three groups/sections: a colonial CBD, a periodic and informal market place and a traditional business center. The neighborhoods in this model are often based on ethnic connections and the periphery of the city is composed of squatter settlements due to rapid industrialization.

• Sector Model

• African City Model

• Burgess' Model

• Latin American Model

A model of the internal structure of cities, created by Harris and Ullman, in which social groups are arranged around in a collection of nodes of activities

• Multiple Nuclei Model
• Concentric Zone Model
• Peripheral Model
• Sector Model

A model of the internal structures of cites in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district.

• Sector Model
• Multiple Nuclei Model
• Zone in Transition
• Concentric Zone Model

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

• concentric ring
• peripheral/galactic city model
• sector model
• multiple  nuclei model

What type of land use dominates on the periphery of the Latin American Model?

• squatter settlements
• industrial activity
• commerical
• middle class residental

The minimum number of people needed to support a business is called the

• range
• threshold
• bid rent
• radius

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

• blockbusting
• red lining
• gentrification
• white flight

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

•  in a wedge that extends from the CBD to the suburbs.
• adjacent to the industrial and transportation corridor
•  on the east side of the city.
•  in the first ring around the CBD.

Formulated by Christaller to explain the size and distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services dispersed to populations. Bigger centers have a larger hinterland, while smaller centers have smaller hinterland and less specialty and high-order goods.

• Central Place Theory
• Christaller's Theory
• Christaller's Place Theory
• Central Hinterland Theory

A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement and is over twice as significant.

• Primate City Rule

• Secondary City Rule

• Dense Cuty

• Dense Settlements