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6.1-6.11 Kaplan

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to the Latin American city model, what do many of the high-income residences extending from the central business district resemble?

a)

Slums

b)

Ethnoburbs

c)

Gated communities

d)

Squatter settlements

e)

Rush hours

2.

What type of cities have populations of over 10 million people?

a)

Alpha world cities

b)

Beta world cities

c)

Gamma world cities

d)

Megacities

e)

Great cities

3.

Which of the following terms is used to describe neighborhoods dominated by a specific ethnic group?

a)

Ethnoburbs

b)

Favelas

c)

Commuter zones

d)

Unincorporated areas

e)

Hamlets

4.

What feature is characteristic of the spine in the Latin American city model?

a)

Commercial development

b)

Industrial zones

c)

High-income residential areas

d)

Market areas

e)

Government buildings

5.

What type of city is experiencing population growth and increasing economic and political clout within its region?

a)

Megacity

b)

Primate city

c)

Gateway city

d)

Emerging city

e)

World city

6.

What is the theory suggesting that the greater the sphere of influence a city has, the greater its impact on other cities around it?

a)

Rank-size rule

b)

Hinterland

c)

Gravity model

d)

Primate cities

e)

Galactic city model

7.

What term is used to describe a space within an urban environment that can accommodate a large number of people for events?

a)

Catacombs

b)

Festival landscape

c)

Boomburbs

d)

Greenfields

e)

Grid street system

8.

Which of the following is an agglomeration that allows businesses of similar structure and production to locate near each other?

a)

Bazaar

b)

Office parks

c)

Entrepots

d)

Boomburbs

e)

Greenfields

9.

In the U.S., which city model suggests that areas are zoned off or even gated off from other zones in the city (based on Los Angeles in 1924)?

a)

Galactic city model

b)

Multiple nuclei model

c)

Concentric zone model

d)

Keno-capitalism model

e)

Sector model

10.

Which of the following continents is known for having older and more historic cities?

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

c)

Africa

d)

North America

e)

Latin America

11.

What does the term "World Cities" refer to, based on Saskia Sassen's definition?

a)

The most important cities with cultural significance

b)

The largest cities by population

c)

Cities with impressive economic and political clout

d)

Cities defined by their financial importance within their countries

e)

Cities connected by arterial highways or interstates

12.

What is the process of cities close to each other merging together called?

a)

Gentrification

b)

Counterurbanization

c)

In-filling

d)

Urbanization

e)

Segregation

13.

In which region are cities usually built on ports for trade?

a)

Europe

b)

Asia

c)

Africa

d)

Latin America

e)

North America

14.

What is the largest metropolis in the United States, with over 18 million people in its metropolitan area?

a)

Chicago

b)

Los Angeles

c)

New York City

d)

Tokyo

e)

London

15.

What is the minimum number of people needed for a business to operate called?

a)

Urbanized population

b)

Employment structure

c)

Nucleated form of settlement

d)

Threshold

e)

Core area

16.

What term refers to areas that reexport goods to all areas of the globe?

a)

Gateway cities

b)

Emerging cities

c)

Entrepots

d)

Megalopolis

e)

Greenfields

17.

According to the Latin American city model, what are squatter settlements in Brazil called?

a)

Slums

b)

Ethnoburbs

c)

Favelas

d)

Greenfields

e)

Rush hours

18.

What is the term for a city that specializes in information-based work?

a)

Basic industry

b)

Post-industrial city

c)

Non-basic industries

d)

Commercialization

e)

Underemployment

19.

In the Southeast Asian city model, where does growth typically extend outward from?

a)

Commercial centers

b)

Port zones

c)

Industrial zones

d)

Greenfields

e)

Rush hours

20.

What is the principle that states that the size of cities within a country will be in proportion to one another?

a)

Rank-size rule

b)

Peak land value intersection

c)

Multiplier effect

d)

Central place theory

e)

Galactic city model

21.

In the U.S., which city model suggests that urban growth is independent of the central business district?

a)

Galactic city model

b)

Multiple nuclei model

c)

Concentric zone model

d)

Keno-capitalism model

e)

Sector model

22.

What is the selling of goods and services for profit called?

a)

Deindustrialization

b)

Basic industry

c)

Post-industrial city

d)

Commercialization

e)

Non-basic industries

23.

What term is used to describe a city that has options such as grocery stores, bakeries, and other services within walking distance of residences to reduce the need for automobiles?

a)

Walkable city

b)

Greenfields

c)

Boomburbs

d)

Suburb

e)

Megacity

24.

What term refers to the principle that development spurs more development?

a)

Peak land value intersection

b)

Multiplier effect

c)

Rank-size rule

d)

Primate cities

e)

Greenfields

25.

In the Latin American city model, what are high-density areas of lower-class citizens who live in substandard housing called?

a)

Slums

b)

Ethnoburbs

c)

Tenements

d)

Favelas

e)

Rush hours

26.

What is the underground area where the dead were buried for centuries beneath European cities, making the ground too unstable to support skyscrapers?

a)

Catacombs

b)

Cityscape

c)

Brownfields

d)

Greenbelts

e)

Greenfields

27.

According to Christaller's central place theory, what is the maximum distance that people are willing to go to purchase a product or partake in a service?

a)

Urbanized population

b)

Hinterland

c)

Market area

d)

Range

e)

Threshold

28.

Which city model represents a post-industrial city in North America, with growth independent of the central business district?

a)

Concentric zone model

b)

Multiple nuclei model

c)

Galactic city model

d)

Keno-capitalism model

e)

Sector model

29.

What is the process of wealthy people moving into inner-city neighborhoods called?

a)

Postmodern architecture

b)

Modern architecture

c)

Gentrification

d)

Blockbusting

e)

Redlining

30.

What type of settlement is typical of rural areas, where houses are far apart?

a)

Nucleated form of settlement

b)

Core area

c)

Dispersed form of settlement

d)

Threshold settlement

e)

Market area

31.

Which city model is based on the idea that the lower classes live closest to the central business district, while the upper classes live farther out?

a)

Sector model

b)

Multiple nuclei model

c)

Concentric zone model

d)

Keno-capitalism model

e)

Galactic city model

32.

Which city model, based on Los Angeles, suggests that areas are zoned off or even gated off from other zones in the city?

a)

Keno-capitalism model

b)

Galactic city model

c)

Multiple nuclei model

d)

Concentric zone model

e)

Sector model

33.

What is the theory suggesting that the closer to the central business district, the higher the value of the land, and only commercial enterprises can afford the land within the central business district?

a)

Primate cities

b)

Bid-rent theory

c)

Galactic city model

d)

Peak land value intersection

e)

Counterurbanization

34.

In the U.S., what does the term "edge cities" refer to?

a)

Areas that reexport goods to all areas of the globe

b)

Large commercial centers in the suburbs

c)

Agglomerations with shared phone and Internet services

d)

Zones where there is little development

e)

Squatter settlements

35.

What type of area is set aside to prevent development from extending too far outward?

a)

Catacombs

b)

Greenbelts

c)

Brownfields

d)

Boomburbs

e)

Rush hours

36.

What term refers to the process by which a population expands from the city center to surrounding, less dense areas?

a)

Urbanization

b)

Counterurbanization

c)

Gentrification

d)

Decentralization

e)

Suburbanization

37.

Which city type connects two areas and serves as an entry point between them?

a)

Megacity

b)

Gateway city

c)

Emerging city

d)

Great city

e)

World city

38.

What is the focusing of power into one authority, usually a mayor or city manager, called?

a)

Centralization

b)

Decentralization

c)

Urban hydrology

d)

Urban heat island effect

e)

Greenfields

39.

What is the term for a situation that occurs when real estate agents try to induce people of a certain race to sell their homes because of a perception that a different race is moving into the neighborhood?

a)

Blockbusting

b)

Racial steering

c)

Segregation

d)

Redlining

e)

Zones of abandonment

40.

What term refers to areas that no longer have police or fire protection because the city has decided the tax revenue cannot sustain public services to those areas?

a)

Zones of abandonment

b)

Brownfields

c)

Greenfields

d)

In-filling

e)

Dendritic

41.

Which model suggests that urban growth is independent of the central business district?

a)

Concentric zone model

b)

Multiple nuclei model

c)

Keno-capitalism model

d)

Galactic city model

e)

Sector model

42.

What is the street pattern that looks like the root system of trees, with streets that curve and meander through the city?

a)

Dendritic

b)

Grid street system

c)

Radial

d)

Hierarchy

e)

Boomburbs

43.

According to the Latin American city model, what is the large market area in African cities called?

a)

Slums

b)

Ethnoburbs

c)

Traditional CBD

d)

Market (bazaar) CBD

e)

Rush hours

44.

Which of the following is an agglomeration with shared phone and Internet services and transportation infrastructure?

a)

Catacombs

b)

Office parks

c)

Favelas

d)

Squatter settlements

e)

Utility infrastructure

45.

What is the process in which problems of an urban area become so great that people leave?

a)

Counterurbanization

b)

Gentrification

c)

Urbanization

d)

Decentralization

e)

Centralization

46.

What is the term for a space within an urban environment that reflects the city's history and has become synonymous with the city?

a)

Cityscape

b)

Catacombs

c)

Symbolic landscape

d)

Brownfields

e)

Greenfields