Urban Geography Quiz

What is a megalopolis?

• central cities and their rural hinterlands

• consolidated metropolitan statistical area

• an area where the urbanized areas of adjacent cities overlap

• regional government federation

to what does the central business district (CBD) refer?

• the core commercial area of the city

• the shopping malls located in the suburbs

• the residential area outside the city

• the industrial area outside the core

what is the term that refers to the rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing in low incomes, inner city neighborhoods?

• suburbanization

• gentrification

• commercialization

• globalization

Urban sprawl is the...

• land maintained as open space surrounding a suburban area

• development of new homes outside of the existing built up area

• change in density within an urban area from the center to the periphery

• period in the morning and evening with the heaviest volume of traffic

Throughout the world, more people are now living in urban areas than are living in rural areas.

• True

• False

A country's second largest city is half as big as it's largest city is...

• rank size

• concentric zone model

• primate city

• density gradient

which urban model is pictured here?

• multiple nuclei model

• sector model

• concentric zone model

which urban model is pictured here?

• concentric zone model

• multiple nuclei model

• sector model

which urban model is pictured here?

• multiple nuclei model

• concentric zone model

• sector model

Cities are usually located near what three factors?

• Mouintains

  Tress

  Labor Force

• Transportation

  Bodies of water

  Natural resources

• Good Climate

  Good Soil

  Good Food

• Bad Weather

  Bad Soil

  Bad People