WorksheetsUrbanization Vocabulary – Multiple Choice Review
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 29mins
Bid-rent theory refers to:
How farmland prices change with rainfall
How housing demand decreases with suburbanization
How real estate price and demand change with distance from the CBD
How income levels affect rent
Blockbusting is:
A) Building large apartment blocks for immigrants
B) Convincing white property owners to sell cheap by spreading fear of minority groups moving in
C) Demolishing buildings to build highways
D) Government-controlled housing projects
The CBD (Central Business District) is:
A) A city's historic core
B) The commercial and business center, often “downtown”
C) The most affordable housing area
D) The outer commuter zone
Centralization means:
A) The decentralizing of government powers
B) The scattering of industries into suburbs
C) The concentration of control under one authority
D) The movement of people into rural areas
A city is best defined as:
A large town with high population density and infrastructure
Any small community with a mayor
A farming settlement
A government-only district
The commuter zone is:
The innermost ring of the concentric model
The outer zone where people live in suburbs and travel to the CBD for work
A zone with only factories
A high-density ethnic neighborhood
The concentric zone model shows:
Land values based on access to highways
How cities are arranged in a series of social rings
Global urban growth rates
Suburban shopping mall growth
Decentralization refers to:
Concentration of power
Distribution of functions from central authority to local regions
Expansion of CBDs
Urban growth into rural areas
An economic base includes:
Only farming
Basic and nonbasic economic activities that support a community
Import-only industries
Shopping malls and suburbs
An edge city is:
A small rural village
A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown
A declining industrial town
A planned community near a farm
Emerging cities are:
Cities that are shrinking in size
Cities experiencing rapid growth and rising power
Cities with declining infrastructure
Cities only near coastlines
13. Employment structure shows:
the distribution of people working in different sectors of the economy
the number of unemployed people in a country
the average salary of employees
the total population of a country
An ethnic neighborhood is:
A) A gated community
B) An area with members of the same cultural or ethnic background
C) A business-only area
D) A new suburban development
A female-headed household is:
A household with no adults present
A household where the primary decision-maker is female
A home owned by the government
A communal living arrangement
A gateway city is:
A declining industrial city
A city acting as a port of entry and distribution center for a region
A suburban shopping hub
A rural service town
Gender refers to:
Biological sex only
Range of characteristics of masculinity and femininity
A type of urban zone
A migration pattern
Gentrification is:
Decline of city housing
Renovating and improving districts to attract middle-class residents
Government housing subsidies
Expanding farmland into cities
A ghetto is:
The wealthy district of a city
A shopping mall area
A slum area occupied by a minority group
A gated neighborhood
Globalization is:
the process of increased interconnectedness among countries
the isolation of countries from each other
the decline of international trade
the elimination of cultural exchange
High-tech corridors are:
Areas dedicated to research and sale of advanced technology along transport routes
Inner-city slums
Areas with only retail stores
Old industrial zones
Infrastructure includes:
Farms and pastures
Physical and organizational structures needed for society's operation
Only government buildings
Shopping malls and sports arenas
The inner city is:
Suburban neighborhoods
Central urban area often marked by poverty and substandard housing
The city's farmland belt
An industrial park
Megacities are:
Cities with over 10 million people
Small but wealthy towns
Cities connected into a megalopolis
Suburban commuter towns
A megalopolis is:
A rural farming cluster
A large chain of cities that have grown together
A suburban shopping area
A declining industrial zone
A metropolitan area includes:
A city only
A city and its surrounding suburbs
Rural farmland only
A port city exclusively
A neighborhood is:
A city only
A city and its surrounding suburbs
Rural farmland only
A port city exclusively
Planned communities are:
Randomly developed suburbs
Carefully designed communities built in undeveloped areas
Spontaneous squatter settlements
Declining city zones
A postindustrial city is:
Focused on farming
Dominated by global finances and information technology
Based only on manufacturing
A declining population center
Postmodern urban landscapes feature:
Only modern glass towers
A mix of historical styles and modern architecture
Rural farmhouses
Traditional grid layouts only
A primate city is:
The second-largest city in a country
A city larger than all others in its country, disproportionately dominant
A rural capital town
A world city with global influence
Racial steering is:
Directing minority students into schools
Real estate agents guiding buyers based on race
Segregation of workplaces
A type of zoning regulation
Redlining is:
Banks refusing loans in certain inner-city neighborhoods
Drawing lines for new subway systems
Building highways in rural areas
Creating neighborhood schools
Restrictive covenants are:
Any downtown business area
A district/community within a city or town
A rural village
A national government center
Segregation is:
Integrating people equally
Separating groups based on race or other factors
Creating suburbs
Decentralizing cities
A shopping mall is:
An outdoor rural market
A large indoor center with many stores
A government facility
A planned community
Site and situation describe:
A city's climate only
Physical characteristics of a place (site) and its relative location (situation)
Only economic status
Shopping areas in cities
A slum is:
A) A wealthy neighborhood
B) A rural village
C) A densely populated area with substandard housing
D) A planned community
Social structure refers to:
Buildings in a city
Patterns of social arrangements in society
Employment structure only
Urban design models
Specialization is:
Learning multiple skills at once
Focusing on and becoming expert in one subject or skill
Decentralizing industries
Building shopping malls
A squatter settlement is:
an area where people build homes illegally on land they do not own
a planned residential neighborhood with legal ownership
a government-provided housing complex
a luxury housing development
Street patterns (grid, dendritic, access, control) describe:
Layout of streets in a city
Shopping mall designs
Farming field patterns
Migration routes
A suburb is:
Outlying district of a city, often residential
Central CBD
A rural farm town
An industrial core
Suburbanization is:
People moving from suburbs to CBD
Growth of areas on the edges of cities
Decline of rural farmland
Development of ghetto neighborhoods
A tenement is:
A luxury apartment tower
A government office
A run-down multi-occupancy apartment
A farm storage unit
Threshold and range describe:
Minimum market needed and maximum distance people travel for goods/services
Urban population growth only
Suburbanization models
Zoning regulations
A town is:
Any suburban development
A populated area with fixed boundaries and a local government
A small neighborhood in a city
A farming village
Urban growth rate measures:
The population increase of an urban area
GDP growth in rural regions
Suburban housing values
Highway expansion
Urbanization is:
Expanding farmland
Process of making an area more urban
Government restrictions on land use
Movement back to rural areas
A zone in transition is:
Outermost suburbs
Area surrounding the CBD with mixed land uses
An industrial hub only
A slum settlement
Zoning refers to:
Separating rural land for farming
Dividing land into permitted/prohibited uses
Redlining neighborhoods
Building shopping malls
The First Agricultural Revolution was:
The Green Revolution
Shift from hunting and gathering to farming
Industrial urban growth
The spread of high-tech farming
The Second Agricultural Revolution included:
Development of biotechnology
Crop rotation and selective breeding in Europe
Expansion of hunter-gatherers
High-yield hybrid seeds
Which of the following was a key feature of the Third Agricultural Revolution/ Green Revolution?
Introduction of chemical fertilizers and pesticides
Domestication of animals
Invention of the plow
Use of irrigation canals in Mesopotamia
The Enclosure Movement was:
Creation of city walls
Wealthy landowners fencing off shared land
The Green Revolution
Restrictive covenants in urban areas
Urban sprawl is:
Planned suburban growth
Uncontrolled expansion of cities into rural areas
Restrictive zoning
Decline of CBDs
A megacity is defined as:
A city with over 1 million people
A city with over 10 million people
A small urban core
A chain of towns
A world city is:
A city influencing global economics, politics, and culture
Any capital city
A megacity only
A declining industrial city
A suburb (second definition) is:
A rural settlement
A residential area on the outskirts of a city, lower density than urban core
A high-rise downtown area
A squatter settlement
