APHG study guide
Periodic Markets...
A collection of individual vendors who come together to offer goods and services in a location on specific days
Which type of settlement is characterized by farm buildings, homes, and churches located close together?
Clustered rural
Sprawl is best defined as the
Development of new housing sites not contiguous to the existing built-up area
Family X has an income of $100,000, Family Y has an income of 40,000 and Family Z has an income of 115,000. According to the sector model which families are likely to live in the same sector of the city?
Family x and z
In which regions cities are the spine and disamenity zones of the sector model evident?
Latin American city
Which of the following is considered to have been a hearth of urban settlement?
Mesopotamia
The process of urbanization can be analyzed by looking at which two dimensions of growth of a city?
The number and percentage of people.
Use Figure 12-2 to answer the question. The graph represents both social and economic change in the United States between 1975 and 2015. Which sector and sub-sectors have grown the most significantly?
The tertiary sector with increases in leisure, health, and retail services.
According to the sector model, the best housing is located in
a corridor from downtown to the edge to the city
the attraction of the "offshore banking" industry can best be explained by...
bank secrecy laws and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries
The U.S. government has encouraged the use of cars in part by...
building interstate highways
In a simplified model of a city, the zone where retail and office activities are clustered is known as the...
central business district
The application of the concentric zone model to developed and developing countries differs in that...
concentric rings are larger and the infrastructure development more rapid in developing countries.
Most U.S. metropolitan areas have a council of government which means
coordinates planning for the overall area
Global city are identified and ranked by a combination of
economic, political, cultural, infrastructure,
The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the...
gravity model
which business services are the most likely to be concentrated in global cities?
integrated financial institutions, insurance companies, and professional legal consultants
Which factors best explain why many "call centers" are outsourced to India?
low wages and the widespread use of English
If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution?
primate city
The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the
rank-size rule
According to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of
rings
A significant driver of suburban growth in the United States has been
rising incomes of the middle class.
The city plus its surrounding built-up suburbs is the
urbanized area
