WorksheetsUrban Land Use
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 37mins
In which zone of the city are land prices the highest?
CBD
Low Class Housing (Inner City)
Middle Class Housing (Suburbs)
High Class Housing (Rural-Urban Fringe)
In which zone of the city would you see the most green space?
CBD
Low Class Housing (Inner City)
Middle Class Housing (Suburbs)
High Class Housing (Rural-Urban Fringe)
In which zone of the city do most families live in semi-detached housing.
CBD
Low Class Housing (Inner City)
Middle Class Housing (Suburbs)
High Class Housing (Rural-Urban Fringe)
Which zone of the city is often situated next to industry and factories?
CBD
Low Class Housing (Inner City)
Middle Class Housing (Suburbs)
High Class Housing (Rural-Urban Fringe)
A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor
Threshold
Urbanization
Hinterland
Slum
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood
Blockbusting
Ghetto
Range
Slum
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
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries
Urbanization
Counterurbanization
Hinterland
Primate city
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 largest settlement equaling twice the amount of the next largest city, the third largest equaling 1/3 the amount of the largest, etc..
Blockbusting
Hinterland
Rank-size rule
Urbanization
Marketing services use WHAT to map different people in certain areas?
Address
Zip code
Survey
Demographics
Which places usually have a low range?
Sport stadiums
Concert venues
Restaurants
Amusement parks
How does the expansion of urban development into rural areas affect natural populations in the environment?
Resources available to the natural populations will decrease.
The biodiversity of the natural populations will increase.
The amount of area available to producers will increase.
Death rates of the natural populations will decrease.
Which term is used to describe low density, automobile-dependent community development that is associated with land use that has a negative impact?
urban coalition
urban homesteading
urban planning
urban sprawl
According to the sector model, once established, the most expensive new housing is built
on the outer edge, farther out from the center
in the skyscrapers of the CBD
on the inner edge of that district, closer to the center
on outer edge of the suburban area, farther from the center
According to the multiple nuclei model, an airport is likely to attract nearby
hotels and warehouses
retail and wholesale shops
residences and highways
universities and colleges
Many of the poor on the periphery of cities in less developed countries live in areas known as
squatter settlements
public housing
the zone in transition
suburbs
Houses with small, high windows, no front yard, on dead-end streets reflect Islamic emphasis on
need for safety
high crime rate
value of privacy
lack of development
According to the multiple nuclei model, what develops at the outskirts of core cities?
Airports
Edge cities
World cities
First-ring suburbs
Which urban model includes nodes such as a port, a university, an airport and a park?
sub-saharan African city model
concentric zone model
multiple nuclei
sector model
A common characteristic of all three models of urbanization
CBD is always in the middle
none of them include a suburb
immigrants live in single-family dwellings
working class homes located farthest from the CBD
Which is NOT a factor that influences the internal cities?
Accessibility and the high cost of accessible spaces
Transportation
Societal and cultural needs
agricultural production
The three models within your textbook are all based on which US city?
Los Angeles
Chicago
New York City
Miami
The ____________________ model has rings that represent its growth patterns.
von Thuenen
E.W. Burgess - Concentric Zone
Ullman and Hoyt - Sector
Harris and Ullman - Multiple Nuclei
In the Concentric Zone Model, which zone has middle - class residences, either single-family homes or high-rent apartments.
Zone One
Zone Two
Zone Three
Zone Four
Heavy manufacturing would be located closest to ___________ in the Multiple Nuclei Model
Central Business District
Outlying Business District
Low-Class Residential
Middle Class Residential
When a census is taken and they ask about your social class, age and marital status, gender, race and ethnicity. These characteristics can be mapped and studied. This study is called
social area analysis
zone area analysis
interdependent system analysis
city center analysis
The graph above shows the percent change in price of various types of food from 1985 to
2014. All of the bars below zero represent a fall in price, while the bars above zero represent
price increase. How does the information in the graph support the political cartoon?
B. The price of fresh food has increased leaving those in poverty less able to afford them
C. The price of unhealthy food as increased and Americans on average are more wealthy
D. Poverty in the rest of the world means no food while poverty in America means no money
Through 1934 - 1968 how many home loans were given to White families vs non-White families
2% White vs 98% non-White
20% White vs 80% non-White
50% White vs 50% non-White
98% White vs 2% non-White
Why did the government begin the practice of redlining?
It understood that it could make more money off interest rates from people who took longer to pay back their loans.
It wanted a discreet way to keep certain racial groups out of certain neighborhoods because it was worried about raced-based conflicts.
It was biased against certain groups of people form racially segregated neighborhoods who it did not believe would be able to repay their loans.
It was worried about the housing boom in urban areas and wanted to slow down the rapidly growing homeownership occurring throughout the country.
Identify this model with a traditional and a colonial CBD, an informal economy zone, and informal settlements along the periphery.
African City Model
Latin American City Model
Concentric Zone Model
Middle Eastern City Model
Which urban model would best describe a city that includes edge cities along its beltways?
galactic city
sector
multiple city
Griffen-Ford
Which of the following is a megacity in Southeast Asia?
Beijing
Sao Paulo
Jakarta
Tokyo
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
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
Check all those that apply. Describe the characteristics of the slum shown above.
The slum is made from flimsy material. During natural disasters, the house will collapse easily.
The slum is located at an unsuitable site. This made the residents who are staying there unsafe.
There is a lack of waste disposal system, hence causing the place to be polluted.
The slum is in a dense and disorderly manner. In the case of a fire, this will make escaping very difficult.
One of our nation's leading producer of steel.
New York
Chicago
Atlanta
New Orleans
It's area known as Manhattan is a worldwide center of finance, advertising and entertainment.
New York
Chicago
Atlanta
New Orleans
Large city along the Mississippi River.
New York
Chicago
Atlanta
New Orleans
Mumbai is also known as the __________________ capital of India.
Alpha world city
Economic
Metropolitan statistical area is a(n)
urbanized area of at least 50,000 people
urban cluster of 10,000 to 50,000 people
small scale functional entity
social and economic town
A clustering of tall office buildings, shopping malls, and apartment complexes at the intersection of major interstate highways is called
Suburban sprawl
Urban sprawl
Suburban densification
Edge cities
According to the classic Bid-Rent Curve, what happens to the value of land as one gets closer to the CBD?
Land gets more affordable
Price of land is not affected
Land gets used less intensively
Land gets more expensive
"White Flight" in the 1950S is most associated with what?
Blockbusting
Redlining
Filtering
Gentrification
Central Place Theory is associated with:
Threshold and filtering
Range and filtering
Threshold and range
Range and zoning ordinances
What are the 3 most important cities in the world?
New York, Paris, Shanghai
New York, London, Tokyo
New York, London, Beijing
New York, Paris, Tokyo
A primate city is when the largest city in a country is __________ the size of the next largest city
Twice
Triple
Half
Quadruple
The map above highlights which of the following terms in red?
world cities
inner cities
dispersed rural settlements
edge cities
micropolitian areas
The transcontinental railroad linked these two parts of the United States?
east to west
north to south
white and Native American
Canada and Mexico
A person who usually travels to work/school by train or bus is called...
a commuter
a passenger
an aisle
a subway
