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
