Ch 12 Geography Edpuzzle

The attraction of the "offshore banking" industry can best be explained by

bank secrecy laws and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries.

Which type of settlement is characterized by farm buildings, homes, and churches located close together?

clustered rural

Global cities are defined by

the number and type of business services found there.

Consumer services account for which percent of jobs in the United States?

50

Which does NOT describe an economic base?

A business sector cluster.

The economic base of many cities changed in the post-industrial era from:

All of the above are correct

According to the map, the vast majority of megacities are located in

Asia

A major difference between consumer services and production services is that:

Consumer services, unlike producer services, provide something that can be used up or consumed by an individual.

Based on the information in the map, which which statement about megaregions in the United States is TRUE?

Daily urban systems tend to cover much larger areas in western states.

According to the map of global cities:

Highest-order producer serves are concentrated in a few major cities.

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

Which statement about central place theory is NOT supported in this area of North Dakota?

Smaller settlements supply all of the services needed to the inhabitants of isolated areas.

In which countries do services account for between 50 and 69 percent of GDP

South Africa, Namibia, and Australia

Which statement about North American global cities is TRUE?

Tampa is gamma-ranked and Denver is beta-ranked.

Which of the following is NOT true about the world's fastest-growing cities?

The high urban growth in the developing world suggests considerable industrialization and economic development.

The process of urbanization can be analyzed by looking at which two dimensions of growth of a city?

The number and percentage of people.

Christaller's Central Place Theory is used to explain:

The spacing of interdependent urban settlements of different sizes in such a way that all the goods and services are provided to the people

The graph represents both social and economic change in the United States between 1975 and 2015. Which sector and sub-sectors have grown the most significantly?

The tertiary sector with increases in leisure, health, and retail services.

Which of the following best explains the differences between the patterns of land use in the township-and-range system and the long-lot system, as shown in the images?

The township-and-range survey system was based on a geometric grid pattern, while the long-lot system was a rectilinear pattern based upon waterways or roads.

Which of the following best explains the importance of stock exchanges in the cities of Mumbai, India and Shanghai, China?

These cities function as global economic centers in the semiperiphery.

Which is NOT a way the Roman Empire facilitated settlements in the territory it controlled?

They reduced reliance on agricultural lifestyles by encouraging urban settlement

Which statement is true based on the map of urban settlements in this era?

Urban centers in East Asia significantly outnumber those of Europe.

Which of the following refers to the size and functional complexity of cities?

Urban hierarchy

Based on the information in the chart, which statement is true?

Urbanization in developing countries is increasing but there remains a gap between developed and developing countries.

The most significant impact of the United Kingdom's enclosure movement on the rural landscape was

a dispersed rural settlement pattern.

Which of the following is a reason for establishing a settlement?

all the above are correct

Consumption services:

are broad, low order, and performed by individuals

Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence. Periodic markets

are located in both developing and developed nations in both rural and urban areas.

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

basic industry

Back-office functions are also called

business-process outsourcing (BPO).

According to social scientist Louis Wirth which of the following is NOT a characteristic of city life?

dense traffic

The long-lot system, brought to North America by the French, was developed primarily because of

desire for access to a river or road.

The gravity model predicts that 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.

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.

Recent decades have seen greatest employment increases in which consumer service sector?

health and medical care

The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas are:

hexagons

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

hinterland

Larger settlements are:

less numerous and farther apart.

Which factors best explain why many "call centers" are outsourced to India?

low wages and the widespread use of English

Which two factors influence the location of back-office services in developing countries?

low-wage rates and workers who can speak English

Which statement about offshore financial service centers is TRUE?

many centers are concentrated in the eastern Caribbean

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 a:

market center for exchange of goods and services.

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

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of business services

provide for a desire that can be bought

The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the:

rank-size rule.

The fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century C.E. brought about what change in urban settlements?

reduction in urban population

Which best describes the distribution of megacities?

reflects population growth in developing countries

A food desert is usually associated with

regions usually found in low-income areas where fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful foods are unavailable.

Which type of service challenges the traditional classifications of services as either a business or consumer service?

sharing services

Attracting a new basic industry is important to a community, primarily because it

stimulates new nonbasic businesses.

The clustering of tech jobs and talent in the United States is attributed to

talented people igniting economic advancement in communities, which attracts more talented people.

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

threshold.