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