Unit 7 Question Bank Part I

According to the sector model, the best housing is located in
Corridor from the downtown to the edge of the city
The CBD
Nodes near the universities and parks
Renovated inner city neighborhoods
An outer ring surrounding the city

The CBD attracts offices primarily because of its
High accessibility
High land costs
More intensive land use
Less intensive land use
Construction of skyscrapers

In the U.S. which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area
CBD
Central City
Urbanized Area
Metro Statistical Area
Suburban area

Solar energy is more expensive than other forms of energy for most consumers primarily because
Consumers cannot count on having enough during cloudy days
Installation costs are high
Silicon is a scarce element
Solar Energy is dangerous
None of the above

A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is
Government
Industrial
Office
Retail
Personal Services

Megalopolis refers to
Adjacent overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Central Cities
CBD plus outer suburbs
Central cities plus urbanized areas
Consolidated Metro Stat Areas

Public transportation is better suited for commuting to the CBD primarily because
It is less expensive
Each traveler takes up less space
Commuters desire to use it
The CBD population has declined
Both a and c

Contrary to air and water pollution, solid waste pollution is reduced through
Burning residuals
Constructing landfills
Concentrating rather than dispersing waste
Reducing damage to the Earth’s ozone layer
Dispersing rather than concentrating waste

The most important political reason for the origin of settlements was a place to
Bury the dead
Educate children
Protect the group’s assets
House the ruler
None of the above

Reduction of biodiversity through species extinction is especially important in
Semi-arid rangelands
Arid rangelands
Mid-latitude deciduous forests
Mountainous tundra
Tropical rain forests

Rural settlements differs from urban settlements primarily according to which type of activity
Cultural economic political religious social

Most people in the world live in what type of settlement
Clustered urban
Dispersed rural
Clustered rural
Metro area
Urban settlement

The study of constraints placed by resources on the level of development is
Carrying capacity analysis
Desertification
Environmental impact statement
Proven reserves
Possiblism

A process by which banks designate an area within which they refuse to lend money for improvements
Blockbusting
Filtering
Gentrification
Redlining
Urban renewal

Producer services provide what kind of services
Diffusion and distribution of services
Services to businesses
Services for the wellbeing of individuals
Security and protection
Both a and b

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the
Hinterland range threshold median central place theory

Critics and defenders of sustainable development both agree that
Definitions of resources change drastically and unpredictably over time
Earth has only 11.4 billion hectares of biologically productive land
Less international cooperation is needed to reduce the gap between ldc’s and mdc’s
More international cooperation is needed to reduce the gap between ldc’s and mdc’s
MDC’s must dictate sound environmental policies to LDC’s

U.S. central cities face fiscal problems because
Federal and state funds are available
Low-income people are concentrated here
Middle-class families are attracted here
Redlining is no longer legal
Gentrification is occurring

A recent change in the density gradient has been
The elimination of the gap traditionally found in the center
An increase in the extremes between the inner and outer areas
An increase in the number of people living in the center
A reduction in the differences in densities found within an urban area
An increase in the differences in densities found within an urban area

According to the gravity model, the potential use of a service at a location is related
Directly to the threshold and inversely to the market
Directly to distance and inversely to population
Directly to population and inversely to distance
Inversely to both distance and population
Directly to both population and distance

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

Sprawl definition

If a country’s largest city (like Slovenia) has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest had 200,000 inhabitants the country follows which distribution
Central place economic base primate city rank-size density gradient

In recent years, urban residents are more likely to shop in
Corner shops
Downtown stores
Suburban malls
All of the above
None

A market area is a good example of what kind of region
Cultural formal functional uniform vernacular