WorksheetsServices Week 1 Edpuzzles
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 21mins
Services will originate with the first forms of
(a)
What is the current global distribution of services?
Greater than 3/4 in MDC's and less than 1/2 in LDC's
Less than 1/4 of the entire world's population
Greater than 1/2 in MDC's and 1/4 in LDC's
Greater than 80% in MDC's and 3/4 in LDC's
Which best explain why business services will developed much later in history than both consumer and public services?
Settlements were still mostly hunting and gathering, especially in Southwest Asia
There needs to be mechanization and industrialization
Settlements were homogeneous and isolated
populations grew too fast to produce enough surplus of food. This answer is correct.
Which subdivision of consumer services is the fastest growing?
Most consumer services are mainly low order services EXCEPT for?
(a)
Which of the following is NOT a business service?
Software engineer
Architecture designer
Computer programmer
Health care worker
Which of the following is NOT a job found in the public service sector?
EMT
Firefighter
County sheriff
Banking loan officer
An economic downturn will have the most negative impact on what service sector?
Locational advantages important to the development of the earliest cities included
Productive agricultural land and defensible sites
Good connections by road and canal
Wilson's toes
Availability of good harbors for large ships
Temperate climates and coal mines
Most people in the world live in a(n)
(a)
Which of the following best explains a geographic characteristic shared by megacities in the global periphery?
Deindustrialization is causing megacity populations to decline.
Megacities demonstrate unplanned growth patterns and often contain squatter settlements and outsources labor in back offices or informal economies
Megacities were built in strategic defensive locations and maintain a strong military presence.
Abundant job opportunities in megacities lead to low unemployment rates.
2 dimensions of urbanization can be analyzed by looking at the
________ and ________ of people living in cities.
Percentage and density
Arithmetic density and physiological density
Number and percentage
Percentage and density
Grace and Nate
Which of the following is a correct statement about the major cities of the world?
Most are found in areas that are not very suitable for agriculture.
Most are located on rivers or seacoasts.
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.
They're rich like Kel Kel
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 many cities achieving dominance as political, financial, and informational capitals.
The development of urbanized areas in the region was influenced by growing trade networks between Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.
The growth of cities in the region was influenced by the accessibility of raw materials and markets through rivers and canals.
________, characteristic of the contemporary North American rural landscape, is characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers in settlements.
Dispersed rural settlements
Clustered linear rural settlements
Linear clustered settlements
Clustered urban settlements
The French long-lot system was developed primarily because of:
Collective land ownership
Access to water
Central economic market area
Common grazing land.
A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found close together is what kind of settlement?
clustered rural
Metes and bounds
Rural clustered
Rural dispersed
Locational advantages important to the development of the earliest cities included
Good connections by road and canal
Temperate climate and proximity to coal mines
Availability of good harbors for large ships
Productive agricultural land and defensible sites
Which of the following is NOT a site factor to Financial Offshoring Services?
Site factor of cheap labor
Site factor-offshore manufacturing production centers
Site factor of secrecy of laws
Site factor of limited environmental laws
LDC's specialize in what two types of business (Producer) services?
Regional command and control centers
Entertainment and Commerce
Management Consulting and staff training
Offshore financial centers and back offices
What factors determine where back office services will locate in LDC's?
MARKET THRESHOLD AND SERVICE RANGE
TAX ADVANTAGES AND BANK SECRECY LAWS
LOW WAGE RATES AND WORKERS THAT SPEAK ENGLISH
LIMITED, WEAK ENVIRONMENTAL AND BANKING LAWS
A service firm that sells it products primarily to consumers outside its settlement is a:
BASIC SERVICE
ECONOMIC BASE
PRIMATE CITY
NONBASIC SERVICE
A news media report that a new service firm will create a certain number of new jobs, this is referring to the?
MULTIPLIER EFFECT
ECONOMIC BASE
BASIC SERVICE
NONBASIC SERVICE
Which of the economic base services comprise the majority of GDP in settlement?
BASIC SERVICES
GROWTH POLES
NONBASIC SERVICES
ECONOMIC BASE
The economic base of many cities changed in the post-industrial era from:
Service to quinary based economy
Secondary to quaternary based economy
Industrial to service based economy.
Primary to service based economy
Which of the following is NOT one of the factors used to determine the global ranking of cities?
Banking and finance factors
Concentration of agribusinesses
Concentration of multinational corporation headquarters
Advanced infrastructure and communications
World/Global Cities are classified as:
The number of low order consumer services found there
The number and type of business services found there.
Their location relative to other cities.
According to the map above:
New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo are the 3 most important cities for finance and world trade.
Highest-order producer services are concentrated in a few major cities.
The many smaller cities that provide services negate the importance of the 3 largest cities.
New York City is the only place with a major stock market exchange and important financial services.
In the new global economy, an increasing proportion of influential financial decisions are being made in:
Major corporate centers such as New York, London, and Tokyo
National capitals because of the increasing importance of the nation state
The field, close to the sources of agricultural production
REGIONAL centers and small towns where fax machines are used
Minneapolis and St. Paul is considered a regional command and control city because
Global specialization of medical and health care services
Regional hub for advanced infrastructure in the Midwest, even further important than Chicago in the Midwest
Regional specialization in many major companies and agribusinesses
Twin cities that combine infrastructure and their economies like Wilson's two brain cells when he wakes up too early
Which of the following best explains a geographic characteristic shared by megacities in the global periphery?
Abundant job opportunities in megacities lead to low unemployment rates.
Megacities demonstrate unplanned growth patterns and often contain squatter settlements.
Megacities were built in strategic defensive locations and maintain a strong military presence.
Deindustrialization is causing megacity populations to decline.
Which of the following is a major difference between meta-cities and megacities?
Meta-cites have a slowing of NIR and transition in economic sectors to more tertiary and quaternary jobs
Meta-cities are post forward capital cities that have linked with smaller settlements to form an urban hierarchy
Meta-cities have rapidly growing periphery urban areas with the inner core economically developing into a post industrial economy
Meta-cities have a slowing NIR, but lack advanced transportation and communication systems for advanced tertiary and quaternary economic development
According to the Central Place Theory, larger settlements are which of the following:
More numerous and farther apart
Less numerous and farther apart
Less numerous and closer together
More numerous and evenly distributed
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is:
THRESHOLD
PERIPHERY
RANGE
HINTERLAND
The minimum number of people needed to support a service is:
(a)
In LDC's, according to CPT, Larger settlements are:
More numerous and farther apart.
More numerous closer together with smaller rural settlements
More numerous and closer together.
Less numerous and closer together.
All of the following are ways the Central Place Theory in not applicable today EXCEPT for?
Land and resource allocation is not evenly distributed on global and regional scales
The spacing of interdependent urban settlements of different sizes in such a way that all the goods and services are provided to the people
Distribution of economic purchasing power parity is not uniformed
Topography is not isotropic
According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a country has a population of 10 million, the next largest city will have a population of
2 million
20 million
9 million
5 million
A primate city such as Mexico City is
Much larger than the cities in any neighboring country and serves as the region’s financial capital
Always located in the center of its country for maximum accessibility
More than twice the size of any other city in its country and dominant economically and culturally
Always a national capital serving as the seat of government and industrial center of the country
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?
World Systems Theory
Central Place Theory
Gravity model
Dependency Development Theory
Which best explains the evolution of sharing services and the difficulties in defining it as a traditional service
Sharing services are consumptive tertiary service and productive tertiary service Sharing services are providing an individual service to a global population
Sharing services are independent contracts that pay a large tax to the government and their company of operation
Sharing services are replacing taxi cab drivers and other forms of mass transportation
Sharing services are providing an individual service to a global population
