Unit 6 Test Review

The physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant

• Site Factors

• Situation Factors

• Urban Area

• metropolitan area

Ratio of people living in cities compared to rural areas

• Nodal region

• Percent urban

• Leap-frog development

• Social heterogeneity

Which site factor best explains the linear pattern of urbanized areas extending between Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York, and Boston?

• The growth of cities in the region was influenced by the accessibility of raw materials and markets through rivers and canals.

• The development of urbanized areas in the region was influenced by the ability to easily transport goods between coastal areas and the interior of the country.

• The development of urbanized areas in the region was influenced by growing trade networks between Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.

• The development of cities in the region was influenced by the abundance of deep-water harbors and waterfalls where the flat coastal plains met higher lands.

As old central business districts and industrial zones in more developed countries lost businesses and employment in the mid- to late twentieth century, suburban development expanded. Which of the following types of cities resulted from rapid suburban growth and the expansion of retail areas, office developments, business centers, and corporate headquarters to provide jobs and services in suburban areas?

• Edge cities

• State capitals

• Megalopolises

• Manufacturing zones

Which of the following best explains a geographic characteristic shared by megacities in the global periphery?

• Megacities demonstrate unplanned growth patterns and often contain squatter settlements.

• Deindustrialization is causing megacity populations to decline.

• Megacities developed due to major investments in high-speed railways and subway systems.

• Abundant job opportunities in megacities lead to low unemployment rates.

The presence of media hubs, coalitions focusing on specific environmental challenges, and headquarters for multinational corporations in major cities help explain how such cities

• are isolated and dependent on national political boundaries for security

• avoid participation in global processes and decision making

• are linked globally in ways that transcend national political boundaries

• preserve cultural heritage and contribute to increasing isolation

_________________ are control centers for the global economy where key decisions about products, manufacturing, banking, cultural trends, marketing and information originate.

• World Cities

• Suburbs

• Squatter Settlements

• Edge Cities

Which of the following best explains why New York City has more specialized stores than do smaller urban places in the United States?

• Its status as a primate city

• Central place theory

• The rank-size rule

• The Burgess concentric zone model

Which feature would most distort the predictions of the gravity model of flow and interaction among areas?

• Disney World in Orlando Florida

• St. Peter's Cathedral in New York

• The Mississippi River shore in St. Louis, Missouri

• Raleigh, the capital city of North Carolina

Which of the following is a general theory in geography that can be used to quantify and predict the interaction between two cities based on population sizes, distance between the places, the number of migrants moving from one place to the other, or the flow of trade goods between the two locations?

• Central place theory

• World system theory

• Gravity model

• Concentric zone model