WorksheetsCities and Urban Land Use Section 6
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Patterns of ethnic clustering within metropolitan areas is determined by residential choice and
access to high paying jobs
partly by discrimination
all are dispersed immigrants
economic benefits of being a minority
Banks that loaned house buyers money clearly identified risky neighborhoods by creating _______________ on the map.
red lines (redlining)
green lines (greenlining)
blockbusting
infrastructure
Airports, roads, docks, railways, taxis, and intracity transit systems are all examples of a cities
primary sector
secondary sector
infrastructure
environmental determinism
Banks, post offices, hotels, cable networks, television and radio stations and communication companies are all examples of
economic infrastructure
transportation infrastructure
government institutions
primary sector
Ghettos in northern and southern cities in the USA have been in place since before (use each war as the earliest possible time frame)
Civil War
WWI
WWII
Korean War
What did the United States do to encouraged car ownership?
lowered automobile cost
publicly supported electronic vehicles
blocked car manufactures from outside the US.
funded road building
US commuters in 2015 spend about _______________ hours a year stuck in traffic jams.
12
22
32
42
What is one way most Americans can lessen the amount of pollutions in their atmosphere?
Use public transportation
buy SUVs instead of cars
create highways through rural areas
move commuter zones into city centers
Which US city does NOT have well- established (high rider participation ) public transportation systems?
Chicago
Boston
New York City
Brownsville
Some real estate agents used scare tactics to get white neighbors to sell. This is an example of
redlining
greenlining
blockbusting
ghettoization
