stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Unit 6 Review Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Unit 6 Review
Unit 6 Review
32 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
468 plays
For prep for APHG Unit 6 (6.1-6.7) Test
Flashcards
32 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
32
Answers
1
Which situation is most applicable to the multiple nuclei model?
Africa
Latin America
small cities
new, fast-growing cities
2
The minimum number of people needed to support a service
threshold
range
service minimum
1000
3
Maximum distance a consumer wil travel to acquire a good or service?
Range
Cost-to-distance ratio
Threshold
Distance Decay
4
The stregth of the newer Galactic City Model is that:
it centers on an international transport hub.
it depicts exurban nodes.
it depicts CBDs.
it takes into account global monetary supply.
5
A commercial spine is a prominent feature of cities in:
Africa
Latin America
Europe
Southeast Asia
6
Smaller satellite cites in major metropolitian areas
squatter settlements
exurbs
edge cities
conurbations
7
All of the following have helped create ghettos in North American cities EXCEPT
redlining by financial institutions
fixed school district boundaries
Economic Enterprise Zones
concentration of public housing and social services
blockbusting and racial steering
8
An urban center that is disproportionately larger than the second largest city in a country and dominates culturally
primate city
metacity
megalopolis
world city
9
Which model features a colonial port surrounded by supporting commericial districts?
Southeast Asian City Model
Multiple Nuclei Model
Islamic City Model
Galactic Model
10
What most heavily influences the sector model?
Surplus industrial production
Electrical grids
Transportation patterns
Spheres of political dominance
11
What are the rankings of world cities based on?
size of metropolitan area
total population
mulitples measurements evaluating influence
gross domestic product (GDP)
12
Currently, the greatest number of urban dwellers live in?
South America
Asia
Europe
Africa
13
According to bid-rent theory, the cost of land does what as it moves away from the CBD.
gets less expensive
uses more infrastructure
gets less developed
gets more expensive
14
In the US, deep-water harbors and waterfalls where the flat coastal plains meet higher lands is characteristics of:
the Northeast
the Midwest
the Pacific coast
the Southwest
15
What was NOT a reason for rapid suburbanization in the US after WWII?
Reduction in long distance commuting
Expansion of home construction
All of these
Mass production of the automobile
16
The main locational advantages important to the development of the
earliest
cities:
proximity to coal mines
road and canal connections
go harbors for large ships
agricultural land and defensible sites
17
Which of the models easily incorporates construction of a new airport on the urban periphery?
None of these
Burgess
Harris and Ullman
Hoyt
18
Which idea attempts to explain the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region by considering consumers.
Concentric Model
Central Place Theory
Gravity Model
Reurbanization
19
Why do European CBDs tend to NOT have lots of high rise building like in North America?
They don't like tall buildings
To preserve historical building and atmosphere
Their construction techniques aren't as good
WWII bombing knocked them all down
20
What was the largest metacity in 2020?
London
Tokyo
New York
Beijing
21
On the periphery of most Latin American cities are:
a plaza with a CBD
railroad stations
barrios/favelas
recreational areas
22
According to the
sector model
of North American city structure, members of low-income groups tend to live in:
in linear residential areas radiating out from the center
in the exurbs, close to sites for manual labor employment
on the outskirts where land is cheapest
the inner city only
23
Where are recent migrants more likely to settle in urban areas?
City center
Transit corridors
Exurbs
Suburbs
24
What do Venice, Amsterdam, London, Hamburg and Marseilles have in common in terms of city qualities?
They are all European capitals
They all attract Japanese tourists
They all have stock markets.
They are all port cities that are centers of trade
25
Can be used to quantify and predict the interaction between two cities based on population sizes
Multiple Nuclei Model
Gravity Model
Concentric Zone Theory
Central Place Theory
26
World (or Global) cities are unique because:
They have more ethnic restaurants than anywhere else
The city limits cover multiple countries
They are important only becuase of their industrial capacity
They are connected to other global cities
27
Name of model for Latin American cities?
Griffin-Ford
Burgess
Harris and Ullman
Hoyt
28
What characterizes most CBDs?
low-rise townhouses
the highest land value
lots industrial areas
easy transportation
29
Influencial cities in the semi-pheriphery include
Mumbai, Shanghai
Frankfurt, Berlin
Tokyo, Manilla
Boise, Boston
30
According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 10 million people, what will be the population of the fourth?
5 million
8 million
250,000
2.5 million
31
Central Place Theory is based on:
the congregation of different ethnic groups
outward radiation of culture patterns
the weighted influence of the CBD
the flow of goods and services
32
Which is a higher-order service that has greater range?
high school
Costco
elementary school
specialty hospital
