WorksheetsURBAN GEOGRAPHY
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What do you call the system of canals leading from the river to the fields devoted for agriculture?
Aqueducts
Bathhouses
Irrigation
Straits
The following are the cities that developed in Mesopotamia, EXCEPT one:
Ur
Uruk
Eridu
Thebes
The following are the institutions that lead to the birth of a more complex society known as civilization, EXCEPT one:
Agricultural development
Permanent mud-brick dwellings
City wall development
Specialized workers
This is used to secure the network of trade in Mesopotamia from evil practices, black marketing and hoarding among others.
Barter
Coins
Seals
Stamps
The Harappa and Mohenjo Daro are the biggest cities that developed in _____.
Tigris & Euphrates
Along the banks of the Nile River
Indus Valley
Yangtze River
What do you call the fortresses that housed assembly halls, granaries and public baths?
Citadel-walled Fortress
Pyramid
Ziggurat
None of the options
The city in the Indus valley are constructed in which manner?
Orthogonal Matrix Grid Plan
Uniform and well-planned grid pattern
Hoyt Sector
Peripheral
The following were reasons to the collapse of the Harappan civilization, EXCEPT one:
Earthquakes
Floods
Invasion
Disintegrated governance
Which among the following is NOT a gift of the Nile River?
Served as a vital transportation route
Flooded around the same time each year
Occasional drought
None of the options
Which of the following is considered as the birthplace of the Chines civilization?
Tigris & Euphrates River
Nile River
Huang He River
Indus Valley
The Greek polis emerged during the Dark ages on and built around ____.
Acred Hills
Steep Hills
Mountain Ranges
Shorelines
What do you call the system of governance in the many isolated cities of Greece?
City-states
Decentralized Governance
Unitary Governance
None of the above
The Parthenon was created in honor of which God/Goddess?
(a)
The city of Miletus follows which type of urban city construction?
Grid Plan
Radial Grid Plan
Organic Plan
Suburban
The following are reasons of the collapse of many ancient civilizations, EXCEPT one:
uncontrollable population movements
uncontrollable population movements
failing states leading to increased warfare
Lack of city planning
The following are reasons that encouraged the second urban revolution, EXCEPT:
Second agricultural revolution that improved food production and created a larger surplus
Industrialization, which encouraged growth of cities near industrial resources
The use of the assembly line among factories
Development of computing softwares and mainframes
Which of the following stage of evolution model by John Borchert refers to slow, primitive overland and waterway transport-Boston, New York and Philadelphia were major cities oriented to European trade?
First Stage-Sail- Wagon Epoch
Second Stage-Iron Horse Epoch
Third Stage-Steel-Rail Epoch
Fourth Stage-Auto-Air- Amenity Epoch
The following are great cities in America, EXCEPT one:
Chicago
Miami
Saxony
San Francisco
Which of the following is an ancient civilization which existed in Meso-America?
Harappa
Inca
Mycenae
Uruk
What do you call the process that encompasses the preparation of plans for and the regulation and management of towns, cities, and metropolitan regions?
City Governance
Rural Planning
Urban Planning
National Governance
