AP Human Geography - Urban Unit

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The layout of the city, physical form, and structure is referred to as

Urban morphology

The first Urban Development was in the same region as the first agricultural hearth - where was this

Southwest Asia

Which of the following regions did urbanization develop first

Mesopotamia/middle east

Individual Parthenon of Athens is a structure typical of ancient Greek cities it is a

Acropolis

The manufacturing city (post interview industrial revolution) first emerged in

South America

In a model urban hierarchy the population of a city town or village is inversely proportional to its rank in the system (1/2, 1/3, ¼ ) and so on. This is referred to as

Rank size rule

The hinterland reveals the \________ of each settlement

Economic reach

Paris and Mexico City are many times larger than the second ranked city and their respective countries. they are also a crucial aspect of the perceived culture of their economies. they're disproportionate influence and size illustrates

Concept of a primate city

The response of the urban system of the American South and southwest the influx of migrants over the past three decades conforms with the predictions of the central place theory this is called the \_________phenomenon

Sunbelt

In burgess economic concentric zone model, the zone of transition became...

Deteriorated with more CBD encroachment.

The multiple nuclei model of urban structure developed Harrison Ullman arose from the idea that \_________ was losing its dominant position in the metropolitan city

The CBD

the core of a city is called the

Central business district (CBD)

After 1970 new suburban downtown edge cities were spawned in the outer city of Los Angeles with their leading concentrations

Near key freeway intersections

the people who the Latin American city where are the homes in most impoverished and unskilled residents?

Outermost zone or peripheral fringe

Most African cities have how many CBD's?

3

The focal point of the Southeast Asian city is the

Old colonial port zone

the huge influx of population from rural to urban areas and peripheral or semi peripheral areas find housing in

Shantytowns

segregation in the united states was reinforced by a financial practice known as

Redlining

In core cities the practice of buying rehabilitating decorating housing with children in the raising of housing values in a social change in neighborhood is called

Gentrification

the core area suburbs are experiencing processes of tearing down as existing homes and building very large standardized looking homes known as

McMansions

the decline in density and the spread of cities associated with the building of freeways in the second half of the 20th century has been the commonly referred to as

Urban sprawl

Gated communities have \__________ as their chief objective.

Saftey

New York times square and Berlin's Potsdamer Platz are examples of giant media reshaping cities into

Spaces of consumption

the physical qualities and absolute location of a city is referred to the city's

Site

What is the population of the 4th largest city in the country where the rank size rule applies if the largest cities population is 1,000,000

250,000

a primate city is

A city with the most political and/or cultural influence

Squatter settlements in LDC are usually located in warehouse districts in

Outskirts of urban areas

what assumptions are in Christallers central place theory

All of the answers

large cities are economic hubs with radiating connections for commerce according to

Central place theory

the maximum distance a person is willing to travel to frequent a service is called the

Range

Which urban model best explains the spatial impact of automobiles and the construction of interstate highways on metropolitan areas in the US?

Peripheral model

A bank would be engaging in \________ if they would not grant mortgages to customers in certain neighborhoods or zip codes.

Redlining

Young single recent college graduates who move into distressed inner-city neighborhoods and refurbish their new residencies would be an example of

Gentrification

Urban models attempt to explain

Spatial patterns and the functions of cities in a simplified manner

A city grows outwards from a central location in a series of rings of fire (which model)

Concentric zone

According to the Burgess model the housing stock is most deteriorated and sizable percent residents are immigrants in the

Zone of tranistion

According to the Burgess model of Urban Development the outer most ring is the

Commuter zone

In Hoyt sector model lower income neighborhoods are usually located

Adjacent to industrial and transportation corridor

What did Hoyts research uncover regarding the highest social class district in the city

High class residential areas don't change over time

large cities developed many nodes around which different types of people and activities. This cluster this describes the

Multiple nuclei model

in Chauncey Harris and Edward Allmans multiple nuclei model which of the following are nodes of activities

All of the above

the identification of blighted urban neighborhoods and the subsequent removal of residents and demolition of deteriorated buildings with their construction of new buildings highways and other large projects constructions are commonly referred to as

Urban renewal

according to the classic bid rent curve what happens to the value of land as it gets closer to the central business district

Land gets more expensive

The gravity model when applied to urbanization reveals that

The two largest cities in a country will have the most interaction

Urban sprawl is responsible for...

All of the above

the notion that cultural factors are the product of environmental conditions like the ancient Greek is an example of

Environmental determinism

which form of diffusion cannot be transmitted by media

Relocation

population policies favor the promotion of birth control among certain groups in the population this is referred to as population

Planning

A developed country that has reached a stage where the population is most stable will develop at a shape that is

Rectangular

a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race religion nationality membership of particular social group or political opinion is officially a

Refugee

Which is not an example of a fortified barrier to migration

US and Canada border

doctor David Harvey refers to increasing speed as which innovations and pop culture diffuse as

Time space compression

Globalized popular culture can be picked up and reproduced by people in the context of their local culture this is referred to as the

Reterritorlization

visible imprint of human activity on landscape is known as

Cultural landsape

Gross national income does not include

Work done by women in less developed countries

geographers interested in race equity and gender are ultimately interested in

All of the above

Which development helped with the rise of national languages in the beginning of the 14th century

The printing press

countries in which more than one language are used

Multillingual

Jerusalem is a sacred place for

All of the above

which of the following us regional association is incorrect

New England - catholic

At the global scale, political geographers study displays spatial manifestations of political processes expressed in the organization of territories with permanent population, defined territory and the government. these special units are called

States

what ultimately proved to be the undoing of monarchical absolutism and its system patronage during Europe's rebirth

The re-emergence of church power

Which is a example of a stateless nation

Kurdistan

the movement of power from the central government to a regional government is referred to as

Devolution

A boundary between countries is a

Vertical plane that cuts through the rocks below and air above.

The rectangular land division scheme in the United states adopted after the American Revolution is quite unique. the correct name is

Township and range system

Examples of luxury crops include...

Coffee and tabacco

which commodity would be found closest to the market town in von thunens model

Milk/dairy

Colonial powers would make subsistence farmers grow

Cash crops in addition to food crops the farmer needed to survive

In areas of shifting cultivation the population

Cannot have a high density