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WorksheetsAP HUG Units 6 & 7
Total questions: 66
Worksheet time: 1hrs 27mins
At what scale of analysis is this census tract map?
national
regional
state
local
A legally incorporated, autonomous, and self-governing urban settlement is called a ______.
census tract
city
CBD
suburb
It is s often difficult to solve regional problems/issues because _______.
local government entities are often fragmented
lack of voter turn-out
mayors are not knowledgeable about the issues
city and county services may be consolidated
Which of the following is NOT a true statement concerning automobiles in the USA?
Car ownership increased the rate of suburbanization.
Cars are the most common form of transportation in America.
Automobiles affect both land use and the cultural landsape of the USA.
The availability of cars has decreased the amount of consumer goods in suburbs.
The (now illegal) practice called "redlining" most often affected
inner-city neighborhoods
suburban neighborhoods
All cities must balance ___ and ___ in order to prioritize infrastructure spending and meet for the needs of all residents.
services and tax revenues
filtering and redlining
rich and poor neihborhoods
urbanization and suburbanization
From largest to smallest the urban hierarchy of the following would go...
Hamlet, Village, Town, City
Mega-City, City, Suburb, Neighborhood
City, Town, Village, Hamlet
Town, City, Hamlet, Village
Central Place Theory states that the size of the market is based on both _______ and the ___________
hinterland/hexagonal position
range/threshold
hexagonal position/range
threshold/transportation costs
USA follows this pattern!
If the 2nd largest city in a nation is approximately 1/2 the size of the largest city, the distribution of settlements is following the
Primate City Rule
Rank Size Rule
World City Rule
Gravity Rule
Paris and London are RLEs!
A large city that is several times larger than the 2nd largest city, and serves as the economic, political, and cultural center of a country is known as a
primate city
megacity
cultural nodal point
central place
What year did the world's population become more urban than rural?
1988(ish)
1998(ish)
2008(ish)
has not happened yet!
Tokyo, London and New York are _____; each has a combination of economic, informational, and social/cultural factors that result in world-wide impacts.
Alpha ++ global (world) cities
Alpha + cities
Beta cities
Gamma cities
Inner-city residents who face an unending cycle of social and economic issues are called a permanent
poor class.
underclass.
poverty class.
homeless class.
Offshore financial center provide what two important functions in the global circulation of capital?
taxes and privacy
privacy and low wage workers
English speaking workers and inexpensive land
collection of tax revenues and public record-keeping
What is NOT true about business-process outsourcing?
It is also called back office functions
Often located in countries with a high number of English-speaking workers
Wages are higher than average for their country, but lower than in MDCs
It is the same thing as offshoring and outsourcing.
San Antonio and New Braunfels with a population of over 2.5 million is classified as a ______________ , while Fredericksburg is classified as a ______________ with a population of 30,000.
metropolitan/micropolitan
micropolitan/metropolitan
This press release from (then) President-elect Biden is all about
Urban sustainability
Pushing people to move to the suburbs
creating jobs
fixing America's bridges
Which of the following is an example of a smart growth policy for urban development?
Increasing the capacity of roads/highways
Decreasing the number or size of parks/greenspace
Increasing mixed-use land policies to combat sprawl
No longer permitting industrial zoning within city limits
Which industry was the first to be impacted by the industrial revolution?
soap
weapons
steel
textiles
According to Weber's least cost theory, the most important factor in locating a factory is
transportation cost
agglomeration
labor
Which non-renewable energy source was first used during the Industrial Revolution?
Coal
Natural Gas
Oil
A paper mill tends to locate near a forest because it is a . . .
bulk reducing industry
perishable industry
build gaining industry
specialized manufacturer
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) encourage industry to cluster by offering tax breaks and incentives to businesses.
True
False
If a factory is making a product that is decreasing in bulk, then the optimal location for that factory will be:
Near the raw material
An equal distance from the raw material and the market
Near the Market
No optimal location for this product
compares the level of development of women with that of both sexes
(a)
The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given tie period
(a)
an indicator of the level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy
(a)
the percentage of a country's people who can read and write
(a)
the potential of a job to produce additional jobs
(a)
an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
(a)
economic activities dealing with the harvesting of resources
(a)
economic activities dealing with the processing or manufacturing of resources into products that are capable of being used by the people
(a)
economic activities where services are provided by people, involve the exchanfe of goods, and pring producers and consumers together
(a)
economic activities concerned with research, information gethering and administration
(a)
the most advanced form of quinary activities consisting of high-level decision making for large corporations or high level scientific research
(a)
theory developed by immanuel wallerstien that explains the emergence of a core, periphery, and semi-periphery in terms of economic and political connections first establisheed at the beginning of exploration in the late 15th century and maintained through increased economic acess up to the present.
(a)
a model of the spatial structure of development in which underdeveloped countries are defined by the dependence of a developed core region
(a)
a model of economic development that describes a country's progression, which occurs in five stages
(a)
modern models that states that the relationship between powerful countries control the economic development of less powerful states
(a)
areas where governments create favorable investment and trading conditions to attract export-oriented industries
(a)
a measure of opportunities and services including income received from abroad, produced by the residents of a country within a specific time period, usually one year
(a)
provision of small loans and other finincial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries
(a)
a tax or duty on imports and exports
(a)
Sustainability is the ability to
develop countries into core countries
measure gender inequality within and between countries
transition to a new manufacturing process that includes mass production which started in the late 18th century
meet humanities current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
market value of all final goods and services in a time period divided by the population
GDP
GNI
GII
GDP Per Capita
When industrial jobs leave a region to somewhere with cheaper labor, the country is now transitioning to a service economy- this is called ________________
Depenency
Deindustrialization
Democracy
Sustainability
The United Nations created these to help reduce disparities between developed and developing countries
Sustainability growth ideas
Subsistence Agriculture
Sustainable Development Goals
Sucky Ideas that don't fix much
