AP Test Unit 6

Which of the following would be considered a primate city?

• Berlin, Germany

• Beijing, China

• New York City, United States

• São Paulo, Brazil

The United Kingdom has established green belts around certain cities to prevent what?

• Race relations are corrupting the riots

• The spread of poverty

• Major traffic tie-ups

• Urban sprawl

According to the multiple nuclei model, what develops at the outskirts of course cities?

• Mitochondrial cities

• World cities

• Edge cities

• Nucleated cities

What do most cities in the developing world have in common?

• The central business district suffers from a lack of resources

• Urban areas are ringed by shantytowns/areas of poverty

• Industries located next to the central business district

• The wealthy live in a commuter zone on the edge of the city

The World Trade Center in New York is a good example of a(n)

• Urban landscape

• Symbolic landscape

• Postmodern landscape

• Festival landscape

What one characteristic links megacities?

• Each city has a world-class airport with connections to each continent

• Each city follows a model that is focused around the central business district

• Each city has an efficient form of mass transportation directly link each other

• Each city has a population of more than 10 million people

Which treatment would be the most accurate regarding the bid rent theory?

• Land value is consistent throughout the urban area due to the high demand for residential space

• More space is available in the urban core due to the plight of the inner-city

• More space is available in the suburbs due to higher demand for land there

• Land value is highest in the central business district, and land value decreases with distance from the CBD

That American cities have what common characteristic?

• A spine of high-class housing extending from the city center

• Dominance of the suburbs in urban growth

• Transportation systems that ring the city and do not connect to the CBD

• 3 distinct central business districts: colonial, contemporary/traditional, and market zones

If city A has 10 million people, city B has 5 million, city C is 2.5 million, and city D has 1 million and all these cities are in the same country, this would represent what geographic phenomenon?

• Rank size rule

• Centralization

• Dispersed settlements

• Urban hierarchy

A business such as a high-end department store with a high threshold would most likely be located where in the urban framework?

• 2nd ring suburb

• Near a major interstate exit

• 1st ring suburb

• The central business district