APHUGO unit 6 test

The layout of a city, the 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 it?

Southwest Asia

In which of the following regions did urbanization develop first?

Mesopotamia/Middle East

The Parthenon of Athens is a structure typical of ancient Greek cities. It is a(n)

Religious building

The manufacturing city first emerged in

the British Midlands

In a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city, town or village is inversely proportional to its rank in the system (i.e. if the largest city is 4 million the second will be 2 million or 1/2, the third will be 1/3 and so on). This is known as . . .

Rank-size rule

A hinterland reveals the _________ of each settlement.

economic reach

Paris and Mexico City are many times larger than the second-ranked city in their respective countries. They are also a crucial aspect of the perceived culture of their countries

The concept of the primate city

The response of the urban system of the American South and Southwest to the influx of migrants over the past three decades conforms with predictions of central place theory. This is called the ________ phenomenon.

Sunbelt

In Burgess' concentric zone model, the zone of transition became

Deteriorated with more CBD enroachment

The multiple nuclei model of urban structure developed by Harris and Ullman arose from the idea that ______ was losing its dominate position in the metropolitan city

The CBD

The core of a city is called the . . .

CBD

After 1970, new suburban downtowns (edge cities) were spawned in the outer city of Los Angeles, with their leading concentrations . . .

Near key freeway intersections

In the Latin American city, where are the homes of the most impoverished and unskilled residents?

On the outermost zone or peripheral fringe

Most African central cities actually have how many CBD's?

Three

The focal point of the Southeast Asian city is the . . .

Old colonial port zone

The huge influx of population from rural to urban areas in peripheral or semi-peripheral areas find housing in . . .

Shantytowns

Segregation in the United States was reinforced by the financial practice known as

Redlining

In core area cities the practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raising of housing values and a social change in neighborhoods is called...

Gentrification

The core area suburbs are experiencing a process of the tearing down of existing suburban homes and the building of very large, standardized looking homes known as . . .

McMansions

The decline in density and the spread of cities associated with the buildings of freeways in the second half of the 20th century has been pejoratively referred to as...

urban sprawl

Gated communities _____ as their chief objective

safety

New York' Times Square and Berlin's Potzdammer Platz are examples of giant media reshaping cities into

Spaces of consumption

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

Site

What is the population of the 4th largest city in a country where the rank-size rule applies if the largest city is one million in population?

250,000

A primate city is

The largest city in a region of a country

squatter settlements in Least Developed Countries cities are usually located

on the outskirts of the urban area

what assumption are in Christaller's Central place theory?

A flat isotropic plane with no physical barriers

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

Central Place Theory

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is

Range

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

Peripheral/Galactic 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 residences would be an example of

Gentrification

Urban models attempt to explain

All of the above

A city grows outward from a central location in a series of rings in the...

Concentric Zone Model

According to the Burgress model, the housing stock is most deteriorated and a sizable percent of residents are immigrants in the

Zone of Transition

According to the Burgress model of Urban Development, the outer most ring is the...

Commuter zone

In Hoyt Sector Model, lower income neighborhoods are usually located

Adjacent to the industrial and transportation corridor

What did Hoyt's research uncover regarding the highest social class district in a city?

High class residential areas don't change much over time

Large cities develop many nodes around which different types of people and activities cluster. This describes the

Multiple nuclei model

In Chauncy Harris and Edward Ulman's multiple Nulcei 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 the construction of new buildings, highways, and other large construction projects is commonly known as

Urban renewal

According to the classic bid-rent curve, what happens to the value of land as one gets closer to the CBD

Land gets more expensive

The gravity model when applied to urbanization reveals that

The 2 largest cities in a country will have the most interaction between them

Urban spawl is responsible for

All of the above

The notion that cultural factors are the product of environmental conditions (e.g. the ancient Greek idea that Europeans were fierce and brutish because of the cold climate), is an example of:

Environmental determinism

Which form of diffusion cannot be transmitted by media?

Relocation Diffusion

Population policies which favor the promotion of birth control among the certain groups in the population are referred to as

Population planning

A developed country that has reached a stage where the population is most stable with develop a population pyramid that is

Rectangular shaped

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

Refugee

Which is not an example of fortified barrier to migration

The US - Canadian border

Geographer David Harvey refers to the increasing speed by which innovations in popular 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:

Reterritorialization

The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape is known as:

The cultural landscape

Gross National Income does not include

Work done by rural women in less developed countries

Geographers interested in race, equity, and gender are ultimately interested in

power relationships

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

invention of the printing press

Countries in which more than one language are in use are called

Multilingual

Jerusalem is a sacred place for

All of the above

Which of the following US regional association is incorrect?

Southwest mormon

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

States

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

The growing economic power of merchants

Which is an example of a stateless nation?

Kurdistan

The movement of power from the central government regional governments 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. Its correct name is:

Township and range system

Examples of luxury crops include:

coffee and tobacco

Which commodity would be found closest to the market town in von Thunen's model?

milk

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