APHUG: Chapter 12 &13

Question 1

Higher income people tend to live near the center of the city in ALL BUT WHICH of the following

Accepted Answer

North America

Question 2

Which is an "MSA"?

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A Metropolitan Statistical Area

Question 3

An urban area with 50,001 people would be considered:

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A Metropolitan Statistical Area

Question 4

When urban areas grow together and overlap it is called:

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A Megalopolis

Question 5

The largest percentage of the US population lives in:

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Suburbs

Question 6

Squatter settlements on the outskirts of a city are most likely to be found in

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Africa

Question 7

Chauncey D Harris created, or helped to create, which Urban Geography model(s):

Accepted Answer

Both B&C

Question 8

City development in wedges is part of which model?

Accepted Answer

Sector

Question 9

What city in China is said to have more than 1000 buildings that exceed 30 stories

Accepted Answer

Shanghai

Question 10

All of the following have a pronounced effect on a city's economic range EXCEPT:

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Agricultural Areas

Question 11

In US cities, the lower socio-economic class is:

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Clustered in inner-city neighborhoods

Question 12

Compared to the UK, the amount of Sprawl in the US is:

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Greater

Question 13

A place where farms, homes, and churches, are found close together is what kind of settlment

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Clustered rural

Question 14

Settlements, particularly those away from the sea, often began because of:

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Access to transportation routes

Question 15

The CBD is the:

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Central Business District

Question 16

European CBD's aresimilar to those in North America because they both tend to contain:

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Retail and office activities

Question 17

The use of hexagons in an urban model would be an indicator that the model being discussed is:

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Christaller's Central Place Theory

Question 18

What technical development has allowed back office services to relocate to LDC's?

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Telecommunications

Question 19

The most likely religious reason for the origin of a settlement was a place to:

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Bury the dead

Question 20

In Latin American cities, high-income housing tends to locate in:

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A spine of commercial activity leading out of the city

Question 21

For the Chicago Bears, the Chicagoland area would be their:

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threshold

Question 22

In comparison to LDC's, MDC's tend to have:

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A higher percentage of people in urban areas

Question 23

Who is credited with being the first to define an "Urban Area" in the 1930's?

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Louis Wirth

Question 24

An Urban area is characterized by:

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All of the above

Question 25

Retail and office activities have historically clustered in:

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A city's Central Business District

Question 26

The process of legally adding land are to a city in the US is:

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Annexation

Question 27

Economic reasoon for settlements include ehich of the following:

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All of the above

Question 28

As a result of high land costs, the American and East Asian CBD's are characterized by:

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Construction and skyscrapers

Question 29

The city that is recognized as the home of the first sky scraper is:

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Chicago

Question 30

A firm that sells its products primarily to consumers outside its settlement is a:

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Basic Industry

Question 31

The US CBD skyline is characterized by large skyscrapers in all major cities EXCEPT :

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Washington D.C

Question 32

Larger settlements are:

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Less numerous and farther apart

Question 33

A market area is a good example of what kind of region:

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Functional

Question 34

The placement of buildings around a central market square is typical urban design of:

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Medieval European urban settlements

APHUG: Chapter 12 &13

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APHUG: Chapter 12 &13

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