Unit 5: Module 39 plus Quiz

In recent years, more and more Americans have been finding jobs in ...

• agriculture and food processing.
• manufacturing and trade.
• service industries.
• mining and lumbering.

The area served by a city is called its ____ .

• hinterland
• service industries
• suburbs
• metropolis

Cities can be placed in a ____ , or rank,according to their function.

• hierarchy
• gross national product
• hinterland
• free enterprise

Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in:

• agriculture.
• manufacturing.
• services.
• education.

The plantation was a common form of rural settlement in which region of colonial America?

• Middle Atlantic
• Southeast
• New England
• Coastal Margins

During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure

• Primate city

• Range

• Slum

• Ghetto

the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services

• Primate city

• Hinterland

• Range

• Threshold

The process by which the population of cities grow

• Counterurbanization

• Ghetto

• Urbanization

• Slum

According to Von Thunen's Model, which agricultural zone is closest to the market?

• Livestock
• Commercial Grain
• Dairy Farming
• Forestry

All of the following are assumptions made in the von Thunen model EXCEPT

• Terrain has forested areas with several small lakes and rivers
• Farmers sell all of their harvest
• The city is located centrally within an isolated state
• Soil and climate are the same