Worksheets6.1-6.11 Kaplan
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 23mins
According to the Latin American city model, what do many of the high-income residences extending from the central business district resemble?
Slums
Ethnoburbs
Gated communities
Squatter settlements
Rush hours
What type of cities have populations of over 10 million people?
Alpha world cities
Beta world cities
Gamma world cities
Megacities
Great cities
Which of the following terms is used to describe neighborhoods dominated by a specific ethnic group?
Ethnoburbs
Favelas
Commuter zones
Unincorporated areas
Hamlets
What feature is characteristic of the spine in the Latin American city model?
Commercial development
Industrial zones
High-income residential areas
Market areas
Government buildings
What type of city is experiencing population growth and increasing economic and political clout within its region?
Megacity
Primate city
Gateway city
Emerging city
World city
What is the theory suggesting that the greater the sphere of influence a city has, the greater its impact on other cities around it?
Rank-size rule
Hinterland
Gravity model
Primate cities
Galactic city model
What term is used to describe a space within an urban environment that can accommodate a large number of people for events?
Catacombs
Festival landscape
Boomburbs
Greenfields
Grid street system
Which of the following is an agglomeration that allows businesses of similar structure and production to locate near each other?
Bazaar
Office parks
Entrepots
Boomburbs
Greenfields
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)?
Galactic city model
Multiple nuclei model
Concentric zone model
Keno-capitalism model
Sector model
Which of the following continents is known for having older and more historic cities?
Asia
Europe
Africa
North America
Latin America
What does the term "World Cities" refer to, based on Saskia Sassen's definition?
The most important cities with cultural significance
The largest cities by population
Cities with impressive economic and political clout
Cities defined by their financial importance within their countries
Cities connected by arterial highways or interstates
What is the process of cities close to each other merging together called?
Gentrification
Counterurbanization
In-filling
Urbanization
Segregation
In which region are cities usually built on ports for trade?
Europe
Asia
Africa
Latin America
North America
What is the largest metropolis in the United States, with over 18 million people in its metropolitan area?
Chicago
Los Angeles
New York City
Tokyo
London
What is the minimum number of people needed for a business to operate called?
Urbanized population
Employment structure
Nucleated form of settlement
Threshold
Core area
What term refers to areas that reexport goods to all areas of the globe?
Gateway cities
Emerging cities
Entrepots
Megalopolis
Greenfields
According to the Latin American city model, what are squatter settlements in Brazil called?
Slums
Ethnoburbs
Favelas
Greenfields
Rush hours
What is the term for a city that specializes in information-based work?
Basic industry
Post-industrial city
Non-basic industries
Commercialization
Underemployment
In the Southeast Asian city model, where does growth typically extend outward from?
Commercial centers
Port zones
Industrial zones
Greenfields
Rush hours
What is the principle that states that the size of cities within a country will be in proportion to one another?
Rank-size rule
Peak land value intersection
Multiplier effect
Central place theory
Galactic city model
In the U.S., which city model suggests that urban growth is independent of the central business district?
Galactic city model
Multiple nuclei model
Concentric zone model
Keno-capitalism model
Sector model
What is the selling of goods and services for profit called?
Deindustrialization
Basic industry
Post-industrial city
Commercialization
Non-basic industries
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?
Walkable city
Greenfields
Boomburbs
Suburb
Megacity
What term refers to the principle that development spurs more development?
Peak land value intersection
Multiplier effect
Rank-size rule
Primate cities
Greenfields
In the Latin American city model, what are high-density areas of lower-class citizens who live in substandard housing called?
Slums
Ethnoburbs
Tenements
Favelas
Rush hours
What is the underground area where the dead were buried for centuries beneath European cities, making the ground too unstable to support skyscrapers?
Catacombs
Cityscape
Brownfields
Greenbelts
Greenfields
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?
Urbanized population
Hinterland
Market area
Range
Threshold
Which city model represents a post-industrial city in North America, with growth independent of the central business district?
Concentric zone model
Multiple nuclei model
Galactic city model
Keno-capitalism model
Sector model
What is the process of wealthy people moving into inner-city neighborhoods called?
Postmodern architecture
Modern architecture
Gentrification
Blockbusting
Redlining
What type of settlement is typical of rural areas, where houses are far apart?
Nucleated form of settlement
Core area
Dispersed form of settlement
Threshold settlement
Market area
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?
Sector model
Multiple nuclei model
Concentric zone model
Keno-capitalism model
Galactic city model
Which city model, based on Los Angeles, suggests that areas are zoned off or even gated off from other zones in the city?
Keno-capitalism model
Galactic city model
Multiple nuclei model
Concentric zone model
Sector model
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?
Primate cities
Bid-rent theory
Galactic city model
Peak land value intersection
Counterurbanization
In the U.S., what does the term "edge cities" refer to?
Areas that reexport goods to all areas of the globe
Large commercial centers in the suburbs
Agglomerations with shared phone and Internet services
Zones where there is little development
Squatter settlements
What type of area is set aside to prevent development from extending too far outward?
Catacombs
Greenbelts
Brownfields
Boomburbs
Rush hours
What term refers to the process by which a population expands from the city center to surrounding, less dense areas?
Urbanization
Counterurbanization
Gentrification
Decentralization
Suburbanization
Which city type connects two areas and serves as an entry point between them?
Megacity
Gateway city
Emerging city
Great city
World city
What is the focusing of power into one authority, usually a mayor or city manager, called?
Centralization
Decentralization
Urban hydrology
Urban heat island effect
Greenfields
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?
Blockbusting
Racial steering
Segregation
Redlining
Zones of abandonment
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?
Zones of abandonment
Brownfields
Greenfields
In-filling
Dendritic
Which model suggests that urban growth is independent of the central business district?
Concentric zone model
Multiple nuclei model
Keno-capitalism model
Galactic city model
Sector model
What is the street pattern that looks like the root system of trees, with streets that curve and meander through the city?
Dendritic
Grid street system
Radial
Hierarchy
Boomburbs
According to the Latin American city model, what is the large market area in African cities called?
Slums
Ethnoburbs
Traditional CBD
Market (bazaar) CBD
Rush hours
Which of the following is an agglomeration with shared phone and Internet services and transportation infrastructure?
Catacombs
Office parks
Favelas
Squatter settlements
Utility infrastructure
What is the process in which problems of an urban area become so great that people leave?
Counterurbanization
Gentrification
Urbanization
Decentralization
Centralization
What is the term for a space within an urban environment that reflects the city's history and has become synonymous with the city?
Cityscape
Catacombs
Symbolic landscape
Brownfields
Greenfields
