Unit 5 Study guide

Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?

Adobe ruins

The map shows the number of people per unit of land. Which of the following types of data are shown in the map?

Arithmetic density

Which of the following describes a concern for a country with an aging population?

As the proportion of older people in the country increases, fewer young workers are available to contribute tax revenues to support programs that provide services to the older population.

Today, the greatest number of urban dwellers is found in

Asia

Which of the following best explains why New York City has more specialized stores than do smaller urban places in the United States?

Central Place Theory

Which of the following groups would most likely engage in the gentrification of an older residential neighborhood?

Double-income households without children

As old central business districts and industrial zones in more developed countries lost businesses and employment in the mid- to late twentieth century, suburban development expanded. Which of the following types of cities resulted from rapid suburban growth and the expansion of retail areas, office developments, business centers, and corporate headquarters to provide jobs and services in suburban areas?

Edge cities

Which of the following best explains what the central business district data indicate?

Government policy makers and business partners have focused infrastructure efforts on creating a downtown work environment that is positive for economic development.

Which of the following is a general theory in geography that can be used to quantify and predict the interaction between two cities based on population sizes, distance between the places, the number of migrants moving from one place to the other, or the flow of trade goods between the two locations?

Gravity model

Although gentrification can revitalize cities by rehabilitating residential areas, which of the following problems can be explained by the type of building renovations shown in the before and after images?

Higher rents causing displacement of existing residents

Which of the following describes the connection between land values and population density? I. Higher population density indicates a higher demand for land and thus the price of land is bid up in densely settled regions. II. Higher prices make land less affordable so that expensive locations generally have lower population densities. III. Larger areas of land will cost more but will be less likely to be densely settled.

I only

Which of the following best illustrates the geographical concept of the nation-state?

Iceland

Which of the following describes a primate city?

It is disproportionately large in relation to the next largest cities in that country.

According to Central Place Theory, the threshold is defined as the

Minimum number of people needed to support a service

In the fundamentals of Central Place Theory, which of the following terms is defined as the maximum distance a consumer will travel to acquire a good or service?

Range

Many medium-sized metropolitan areas such as Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, or Charlotte, North Carolina, have added light-rail train systems to their public-transit networks. Which of the following best explains the goals of light-rail projects?

Reduce the ecological footprint of cities and reduce the air pollution created by vehicle exhaust

Which of the following types of urban land use is most common on the periphery of cities in Latin America?

Residential squatter settlements

In the development of urban land, which of the following is typically built on the most accessible sites?

Retail complexes

Which of the following pairs of agricultural types occupies the largest percentage of the world's total land area?

Shifting cultivation and nomadic herding

On the map above, the shaded area is most associated with which of the following types of agriculture?

Subsistence agriculture (specifically rice cultivation)

The European Union is an example of

Supranationalism

Which of the following was a consequence of blockbusting in North American cities?

The ethnic composition of neighborhoods changed.

La Défense is an edge city constructed in the late twentieth century and characterized by high-rise office buildings. Which of the following best explains why La Défense is located on the outskirts of Paris?

The land at the center of Paris is filled with numerous historic buildings that residents do not want torn down.

Based on a comparison of the zones in the model shown, which of the following best explains how the model is limited in its representation of present-day urban land-use patterns?

The model does not show the cost-to-distance effects of multiple suburban central business districts and the pattern of residential areas that surround them.

Which of the following is a true statement about classic models of city structure?

The sector model is highly influenced by transportation patterns.

The presence of media hubs, coalitions focusing on specific environmental challenges, and headquarters for multinational corporations in major cities help explain how such cities

are linked globally in ways that transcend national political boundaries

Historically, the growth of North American suburbs was most constrained by

limited transportation

Locational advantages important to the development of the earliest cities included

productive agricultural land and defensible sites

All of the following were crucial to the emergence of the first cities EXCEPT

separation of the ruling system and the religious system

International company headquarters, significant global financial functions, and a polarized social structure are defining characteristics of

world cities