Unit 6 Test

Which of the following is a correct statement about the major cities of the world?

• Most are located on rivers or seacoasts.

• Most are found in areas that are not very suitable for agriculture.

• Most primate cities are located in the United States and western Europe.

• They are concentrated between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.

• The world's fastest-growing cities are found in areas with the highest standards of living.

What is a common impact of urbanization regardless of a country’s level of economic development?

• Urbanization means a loss of agricultural production due to the loss of farmland and farmworkers.

• Urbanization leads to a more egalitarian society as the difference between urban and rural lifestyles is reduced.

• Urbanization creates a larger cultural and economic gap between urban and rural areas.

• Urbanization creates a labor force with a diversity of job skills and compensation levels.

• Urbanization creates socially and economically diverse cities that have little social conflict.

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

• 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.

• The growth 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 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 growing trade networks between Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.

• The growth of urbanized areas in the region was influenced by many cities achieving dominance as political, financial, and informational capitals.

Which of the following is true of an edge city?

• It is located on the edge of a lake, river, or other physical feature.

• It is close to bankruptcy.

• It is an outlet for a region’s trade.

• It is increasingly used for heavy industry.

• It has a large amount of recently developed retail and office space.

Which of the following statements best explains the growth pattern behind a majority of the world’s megacities?

• North American and European cities continue to dominate global financial services and generate large volumes of media and entertainment.

• Indian and Chinese cities have experienced enormous urban growth in recent years as these countries continue to industrialize and develop service industries.

• Japan and Germany are the most highly urbanized developed countries in the world, with much of their economies focused on high technology and financial services.

• Brazilian and Mexican cities remain the largest metropolitan areas in the world because of continuous rural-to-urban migration.

• Africa and the Middle East have produced a large number of metropolitan areas where commercial development and real estate values have increased significantly.

Which of the following principles is most useful for explaining the relative sizes of cities within a single country?

• Uneven development

• Primate city

• Dependency theory

• Multiplier effects

• Edge city

Which of the following is a primary characteristic of world cities?

• They are capital cities in their respective countries and centers of political power.

• They are financially and politically connected to global markets and drive the process of globalization.

• They are located in the interiors of their respective countries and require sophisticated transportation networks.

• They have political dominance within their respective regions and are former centers of colonial power.

• They have historical significance on a global scale and are located within early cultural hearths.

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

• The rank-size rule

• The gravity model

• Central place theory

• The Burgess concentric zone model

In the fundamentals of central place theory, which of the following terms is defined as the maximum distance a consumer will travel to acquire a good or service?

• Distance decay

• Threshold

• Cost-to-distance ratio

• Relative location

• Range

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

• Concentric zone model

• Multiple nuclei model

• Gravity model