APHG chp. 12 quiz
The proportion of professionals in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is greater than the proportion in the Chicago area
According to these "geography of talent" maps,
Indianapolis is Gamma-ranked and Denver is Beta-ranked
An analysis of this U.S map indicates that:
Chicago is an alpha-ranked world city
An analysis of this map of global cities indicates that:
Stimulates new non basic industries
Attracting a new basic industry is important to a community, primarily because it:
Business-process outsourcing
Back-office functions are also called:
Western states
Daily urban systems tend to cover much larger areas in:
200,000
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?
Median
In a linear community, we can deduce that the best location for a service is the:
50 percent
In the United States about ____ of all jobs are in consumer services
10 percent
In the United States educational services account for about ___ of jobs
Manufacturing of durable goods
One of the most important basic activities in the southern Great Lakes region is:
Vendors who move from town to town
Periodic markets are likely to feature:
Agriculture
Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in
China and India
Services account for less than 60 percent of GDP in:
Low wages and the wide use of English
The attraction of the outsourced "call center" industry to locate in India can best be explained by:
A hexagon
The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is:
Rank size rule
The heirarchical listing of settlements by size is know as the:
Range
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is:
Many are concentrated in the eastern Caribbean
This map of offshore financial centers indicates that:
Tax breaks and privacy
Two major benefits many LCDs offer in terms of global financial services
Transportation services
What is not primarily a consumer service?
Steel mill
Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity?
The number and type of business services found there
World cities are defined by:
