chapter 12

French influence on land division in the United States and Canada resulted in

A long-lot system

The high-tech firms of Silicon Valley in California are clustered together to take advantage of

Agglomeration effects

An excellent example of a primate city that serves as the focus of a country and its culture is...

Copenhagen, Denmark

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of...

Economic, service, industrial, and infrastructure factors.

Christaller's central place theory, which provides a reason why a certain number of human settlements exist in an urban system, assumes that all consumers

Have the same income and shop in the same way

global cities such as New York and London are characterized as such primarily because they are home to

International business centers

Quaternary economic activities are those that...

Involve the collection, processing, and manipulation of information

The attraction of the call center industry to locate in India can best be explained by...

Low wages and wide use of English

A central place is a...

Market center

This map of the percentage of GDP from services that indicates that services account for between 50 and 69 percent of GDP in...

Mexico, Canada, and Russia

two major benefits many LDCs offer in terms of global financial services are...

Tax breaks and privacy

In central place theory, range, or the maximum distance a consumer will travel to buy a good, is proportional to

The desire to obtain the good

The gravity model, used to predict flows of human activity between places, has been criticized for its inability to take into account

The evolution of patterns

Which statement best describes the relationship between urbanization and the industrial revolution

The industrial revolution promoted urbanization

A common exception to the rank-size rule occurs when the largest, or primate, city of a country is NOT much bigger than

The smaller cities of a country

In central place theory, the size of population required to make it economically feasible to provide certain services is called

The threshold

Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in

agriculture

Which of the following statements best describes an impact of the global recession that occurred in 2008

all of the above

The rank-size rule does NOT always fit when one considers the distribution of

all of the cities in a given country

The internet is reshaping traditional economic arrangements by

expanding the importance of express package delivery systems

In cities such as Chicago, individuals who take positions as members of a municipal council primarily engage in activities to

make sure that the city government functions correctly

Christaller's central place theory explains that settlements will form in a triangular/hexagonal lattice, with the geometric shapes forming

market areas

What is a likely result of a rapid rise in the rate of rural-urban migration?

overcrowding in urban areas

Central place theory describes the

spatial patterns of urban and outlying areas based on the flow of goods and services

The gravity model, which can be used to calculate the bonds between different urban centers, assumes that two cities located close together

would attract more people than two cities located far apart