AP HUG Chap 12-13

If a country follows the rank-size rule, how many people live in the fifth largest city if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants?

200,000

Sprawl is best defined as the

Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.

Which factors would geographers use to determine the marketability of a location?

Market area, range, threshold, share of the market.

Which of the following would planners NOT consider when determining the extent of the market area for a new chicken wings restaurant?

The availability of parking within the threshold of the restaurant

The peripheral model is most closely associated with

The multiple nuclei model

According to the sector model, the best housing is located in

a corridor from downtown to the edge of the city.

Megalopolis refers to

adjacent, overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

The process of legally adding land area to a city in the United States is known as

annexation

A primate city is defined as

at least twice as large as the next smaller city

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

basic industry

Which is NOT a business service?

clerical

Which business services are the most likely to be concentrated in global cities?

commerce, trading, real estate, and banking

The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is

directly related to the number of people in a location and to the distance people must travel

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of

economic, political, cultural, and infrastructure factors.

The four main types of consumer services include

education, retail, health, and leisure

Public housing is defined as

government owned housing rented to low-income people

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the

hinterland

According to the multiple nuclei model, an airport is likely to attract nearby

hotels and warehouses.

A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is

industrial.

A central place is defined as a

market center for exchange of goods and services

The multiple nuclei model describes cities that include

nodes such as a port, a university, airport, and a park.

A food desert is usually associated with

parts of the country where fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods are unavailable, usually found in impoverished areas.

The process of gentrification occurs when

people in the middle class move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing

If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, which distribution does the country follow?

primate city

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is the

range

The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the

rank size rule

European CBDs are similar to those in North America because they both contain

retail and office activities

Settlements on the periphery of cities in less developed countries that often house the poor or new urban arrivals are known as

squatter settlements

Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity?

steel mill

Edge cities emerged as a consequence of

suburbanization

In terms of global financial services, which two major benefits do developing countries offer?

tax breaks and privacy.

Global cities are defined by

the number and type of business services found there.

The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the

threshold

Which of the following is NOT primarily a consumer service?

transportation

Periodic markets are likely to feature

vendors who move from town to town