ap chapter 12
If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants, how many people live in the fifth largest city?
200,000
consumer services account for about which percent of jobs in the us?
50%
education services account for about which percent of jobs in the US?
9%
Which does not describe an economic base?
A business sector cluster.
In contrast to megacities, metacities
Are very large urban settlements and have atleast 25 million people
Which of the following is considered to have been a hearth of urban settlement
Mesopotamia
Clustered rural settlements were most common in which region of colonial America?
New England
The process of urbanization can be analyzed by looking at which two dimensions of growth of a city?
The number and percentage of people.
The graph represents both social and economical change in the us during 1975 to 2015. Which sectors and sub sectors have grown?
The tertiary sector with increase in leisure, health, and retail services
Which is NOT a way that the Roman Empire facilitated settlements in the territory it controlled?
They reduced reliance of agricultural lifestyles by encouraging urban settlements
Which of the following is not true about the world's fastest growing cities
Tokyo, Seoul, and New york city are the only three cities in the developed world in the top 10 of the world's largest cities
The primary rationale for government support of the enclosure moment in the UK was to promote
agricultural efficiency
which academic discipline provides much of our current knowledge about hearths of innovation and ancient urban settlements?
archaeology
A primate city is defined as
at least twice as large as the next smaller 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
three types of services are
buisness, consumer, and public
Back offices functions are also called
buisness-processing outsourcing (BPO)
which is NOT a buisness service?
clerical
Which type of settlement is characterized by farm buildings, homes, and churches located close together?
clustered rural
The long-lot system brought to North America by the French, was developed primarily because of
desire for access to river or road
The gravity model predicts the optimal location of a service is
directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it
The four main types of consumer services include
education, retail, health, and leisure.
Which of the following about clustered rural settlements is not true?
family farms are near one another in order to share tools and tractors
the potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the...
gravity model
The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is
hexagons
The area surrounding a service from which consumers are attracted is the
hinterland
The most significant impact of the United kingdom's enclosure movement in the rural landscape was
increased settlement because of improved transportation
which buisness 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
Which factors would geographers use to determine the marketability of a location?
market area, range, threshold, and predicted share of market
a central place is defined as
market center for exchange of goods and services
The typical medieval European urban settlements were characterized by the
placement of buildings around a central market square.
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 maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is
range
The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the
rank-size rule
Which best describes the distribution of megacities?
reflects population growth in developing countries
In which countries do services account for between 50 to 69% of gdp
south africa, namibia, and australia
Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity
steel mill
Attracting a new basic industry is important to a community, primarily because it
stimulates new nonbasic businesses.
Nomads were attracted to early settlements based on the services they offered. Which of the following does NOT pair a service of early settlements with its type?
structures for religious ceremonies, buisness service
The clustering of tech jobs and talent in the US is attributed to
talented people igniting economic advancement in communities, which attracts more talented people
Which development has reduced the need for spatial proximity and encouraged the relocation of back-office functions to developing countries
telecommunications
Global cities are defined by
the number and type of business services found there
which of the following would planners not consider when determining the extent of a market area for a new chicken restaurant
the number of people living within an approximately 10-mile radius of
Higher social heterogeneity in urban settlements means that
there are many different kinds of people in cities
the minimum people needed to support a service is called the
threshold
Which of the following is a possible explanation for the development of consumer services in early settlements?
to meet the needs of people to bury the dead
Which is not a consumer service?
transportation
Heterogeneity is more a characteristic of
urban centers than rural communities
