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1.1 URBANIZATION
1. Saving energy and other resources with- 4. Evaporation of water from the leaves of a
out sacrificing people’s comfort is the goal plant
of A. Evapotranspiration
A. greenways B. Transpiration
B. green building design C. Condensation
C. urban growth boundaries D. Manipulation
D. zoning
5. The homestead act is a
2. What is a heat island?
A. push factor
A. An island in the middle of the ocean
B. pull factor
with very high temperatures
B. Cities causing temperature increases 6. Livable cities focus on creating planned
because of pollution, people, and build- cities with pedestrian walks & festival set-
ings tings
C. Areas of land in cities devoted to parks A. This is called New-Urbanism
B. This is called New-Metropolis
D. none of above C. This is called urban planning
3. What contributed to the increase in urban D. This is called the Walk-able cities
population during industrialization? movement
A. the invention of modern farming tech- 7. Many immigrants left Europe to escape
niques poverty, the restrictions of social class,
B. the opening of factories producing con- forced military service, high food prices,
sumer goods population pressure, and
C. the expansion of rural areas A. civil war.
D. none of above B. the lack of industrial jobs.
1. B 2. B 3. B 4. B 5. B 6. A 7. C
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C. religious persecution. 14. Which of the following is not a pull factor?

D. urban problems such as crime. A. plentiful land

8. What are some consequences of deforesta- B. economic struggles
tion? C. employment
A. increased population in cities D. none of above
B. building of more infrastructure 15. Which industry is located in Chicago?
C. soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, loss A. Automobile
of ability to remove CO2
B. Meat-packing
D. more mercury and cyanide released
into rivers C. Textile
D. Steel
9. Within the next decade, would reach
40 million population. 16. This urban model creates pie shaped
A. Shanghai wedges extending out from the central
business district.
B. Tokyo
A. Concentric
C. London
B. Sector
D. Mumbai
C. Multiple Nuclei
10. Pollution can come from natural events D. Urban Realms
such as
A. using CFCs 17. The illustration that shows the correct ex-
ample of a rural area would be
B. driving cars
C. erupting volcanoes A.
D. reusing water bottles
11. What is urbanisation? B.
A. The movement of people from rural, to
urban areas.
B. The increase in the proportion of peo- C.
ple living in towns and cities.
12. Meaning of ‘well-established’
D.
A. famous, established a long time ago
B. reality
18. The spread of low-densityurban or sub-
C. exposed to wind and dew urbandevelopment outward froman urban
D. worth thinking about center
13. Energy saving is one of the sustainable de- A. sprawl

velopment goals B. city expansion
A. Yes C. hotspot
B. No D. underdevelopment
8. C 9. B 10. B 11. B 12. A 13. A 14. B 15. B 16. B 17. A 18. A

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19. No one contributed more to the design of 24. Which of the following is not a benefit of
skyscrapers than Chicago’s a. c. b. d. living in an urban area?
A. Potter Palmer. A. lots of people who share your interest
B. Frank Lloyd Wright B. airports
C. Frank Sprague. C. anti-social behaviour
D. Louis Sullivan.
D. well paid jobs.
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20. was the most infamous leader of Tam-
many Hall? 25. The Interstate Commerce Commerce Act re-
quired which of the following?
A. Roscoe Conkling
A. railroads to increase rebates to high
B. U.S. Grant volume users
C. Theodore Roosevelt
B. railroads to charge higher rates for
D. Boss Tweed shorter hauls
21. Clarify the criteria for achieving sustain- C. states to regulate interstate railroad
ability rates
A. economic criteria D. the federal government to regulate in-
B. urban standards terstate railroad rates
C. social norms 26. prejudice (n)

D. There are no clear criteria
22. Which is not an urban problem?

A. Pollution
B. Traffic congestion
C. Slums
D. Honey Pot Tourism A. mindset /�ma�nd.set/
23. The Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth B. slum /sl�m/
century gave pace to large-scale urbaniza-
C. urbanization /��.b�n.a��ze�.��n/
tion in Europe and in many other parts of
the world. D. none of above
27. An area’s urbanization rate can tell you
A. about people’s economic status

B. what % of people have shifted from ru-
ral areas to urban areas
C. why people are moving
A. True D. how people’s daily lives have changed
B. False over time
19. D 20. D 21. A 21. B 21. C 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. D 26. A 27. B 28. D
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28. How many people live in a megacity? 34. The basic support systems needed to keep
an economy going, including power, com-
A. At least 2 million
munications, transportation, sanitation,

B. At least 5 million and education form a country’s
C. At least 8 million A. urbanization.
D. At least 10 million B. infrastructure.
C. industrialization.
29. An area often referred to as the country
D. urban geography.
that is sparsely populated is called
A. Urban Area 35. In the late 19th century, many labor
unions opposed immigration, they feared
B. Rural Area immigrants
C. Land Cover A. would work for higher wages
D. Land Use B. eased financial drains on social ser-
vices
30. Why were people initially drawn to cities? C. assimilated into American Culture
A. The availability of jobs D. Would accept jobs at strikebreakers
B. The promise of leisure time 36. The spread of low-density auto dependent
C. Safer living conditions development on rural land out side com-
pact urban centers.
D. More farmland
A. Urban sprawl
31. Which Chicago suburb prevented an east B. public housing
coast developer from selling 10 homes to C. Slum
black families?
D. Project Housing
A. Schaumburg
37. A rural area has a lot of
B. Naperville
A. buildings
C. Deerfield
B. people
D. Arlington Heights C. farmland
32. Coal Mines D. options
A. Site 38. One way that city planners put their deci-
sions into practice is
B. Situation
A. zoning.
33. Who is known for inventing the tele- B. urbanization.
phone? C. ecological restoration.
A. Thomas Edison D. sprawl.
B. Robert Fulton 39. Cities face problems with overcrowding
C. Henry Bessemer A. true
D. Alexander Graham Bell B. false
29. B 30. A 31. C 32. A 33. D 34. B 35. D 36. A 37. C 38. A 39. A 40. A
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40. earning or providing a lot of money (com- C. Urbanisation is the migration of people
pound adj) from urban to rural areas that results in
A. well-paid the reduction of urban areas.
B. badly-paid D. none of above
41. Which best describes the living conditions 46. Who rose to be one of New York’s most
of most immigrants? powerful party bosses?
A. Most immigrants lived in rural areas
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with few other people around
B. Most immigrants lived in cities in ex-
tremely crowded buildings
C. Most immigrants lived in single-family
homes
D. Most immigrants lived in homeless
shelters year-round
A. Thomas Pendergast
42. What is roughly the population density of B. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Australia?
C. George Plunkitt
A. 7/km2
D. Salmons Yoffeh
B. 20/km2
47. Which of the following statements about
C. 3/km2
greenways is true?
D. 11/km2
A. They only benefit humans.
43. Land values increase closer to the CBD B. They limit the movement of wildlife.
A. True C. They decrease property values.
B. False D. They protect water quality.
44. What would happen to the land of the US 48. Which statement about nativism is most
if we were to spread out the people that accurate?
live in the cities?
A. Nativists wanted to bring about an end
A. Less land and resources to slavery
B. More land and resources B. Nativists were opposed to immigration
C. More land C. Nativists were laborers who favored
D. Nothing everything would stay the unlimited immigration
same D. Nativists encouraged immigrants to
settle in California
45. What is urbanisation?
A. Urbanisation is the migration of people 49. What was the name of the organizations
from poor countries to rich countries. that often ran city, county, and state poli-
tics during the late 1800s?
B. Urbanisation is the migration of people
from rural areas to cities that results in A. political machines
the expansion of urban areas. B. monopolies
41. B 42. C 43. A 44. A 45. B 46. C 47. D 48. B 49. A

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C. power brokers 55. A technology that allows planners to cre-

D. the mafia ate multiple layered maps is

A. UGB
50. The word ‘urban’ stands for villages
B. ecological restoration
C. GIS
D. none of above
56. The word used for towns and cities

A. Urban
A. True B. Urbanization
B. False C. Smart cities
D. Rtusa
51. The process of converting a neighborhood
from a predominantly low-renter renter- 57. An inner city surrounded by suburban res-
occupied area to a predominantly middle- idential & business areas tied together by
class owner-owned area a ring road.
A. Renewal A. Urban Realms Model
B. Gentrification B. Multiple Nuclei Model
C. Conversion of Area C. Sector Model
D. Urban Renewal D. Galactic Model
52. Mississippi took the first step to prohibit 58. How is natural gas transported from it’s
African Americans from voting when it resource to your home?
quired that all citizens registering to vote
pay a a. c. b. d. A. trucks
A. Jim Crow tax B. ships
B. head tax C. pipelines
C. poll tax D. none of above

D. voting fee 59. What were some of the challenges faced
by the American population during indus-
53. The population is falling in some countries. trialization and urbanization?
A. True A. Poor working conditions, low wages,
B. False overcrowded cities, pollution, and inade-
quate housing.
54. of the world’s seven billion people live
in urban areas. B. Low wages, spacious cities, clean en-
vironment, and adequate housing.
A. More than half
C. Good working conditions, high wages,
B. Less than half spacious cities, and clean environment.
C. Three-fourths D. High wages, spacious cities, clean en-
D. Two-thirds vironment, and adequate housing.
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60. Where do tens of thousands of people in B. Mississippi

Egypt live? C. Mesoamerica
A. apartments
D. Tokyo
B. high rise condos
67. can be carried on into the future with-
C. crypts
out harming people’s quality of life, or the
D. single family homes economy, or the environment.
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61. Forms of mass transit during the late A. sustainable
1800s included all EXCEPT: B. renewable
A. Trolleys C. regenerated
B. Subway D. reasonable
C. Cars
68. In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling
D. Trains in Wabash v. Illinois, Congress created the
62. Benefits of migration include A. McKinley Tariff.
A. brain drain B. Sherman Antitrust Act.
B. social resentment C. Pendleton Act.
C. receiving remittances D. Interstate Commerce Commission.
D. separation of families
69. Where did most immigrants to the USA
63. an area located outside cities & towns come from (1880-1920)?
A. urban A. Southern & Eastern Europe
B. suburban B. Northern & Western Europe
C. rural C. Latin America
D. none of above D. Asia
64. What area of the US is more urban? 70. Megacities have at least
A. Midwest A. 10, 000
B. Southern states B. 100, 000
C. East and west coasts C. 1, 000, 000
D. Alaska D. 10, 000, 000
65. Developed land covered mostly with build- 71. According to the UN’s estimation, how
ings and roads is an urban area. many percent of the world population will
A. True live in urban areas in 2050?
B. False A. around 40%
B. around 50%
66. Which of the following is an example of an
early river valley civilization? C. around 60%
A. Nile D. around 70%

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72. Why did people traditionally live in rural 77. Which of the following refers to people liv-
areas? ing close together?

A. because rural areas had better trans- A. dispersed
portation facilities
B. Sparse
B. to access a large selection of public fa-
cilities C. Dense
C. to grow their own food, raise animals, D. interconnected
and make their own necessities
78. Since the outbreak of Covid19, Nigeria has
D. none of above
cut revenue target economic shock
73. the countryside A. in case of
A. rural area
B. due to
B. urban area
C. though
C. glacier
D. in anticipation of
D. habitable
74. Tenements were unsafe because 79. A long chain of continuous large cities that
interact with each other are known as a(n)
A. There were no fire escapes
A. Commercial Zone
B. No sprinkler systems were built
C. Overpopulated B. Edge City
D. All of the above C. Megalopolis
75. Nutrition improved due to improved meth- D. Metropolis

ods of
80. The facilities, services, andinstallations
A. farming necessary for thefunctioning of a commu-
B. food storage nity
C. food production A. infrastructure
D. all of these B. city planner
76. How did the growth of cities and the rise C. urban sprawl
of factories impact the living conditions of
D. none of above
Americans?
A. Living conditions worsened due to 81. Which of these statements is true about
overcrowding, poor sanitation, and un- urbanization?
healthy environments.
A. It can have a negative impact the wa-
B. Living conditions improved due to better cycle in cities.
ter housing and healthcare facilities.
B. Aquifers are recharged more in urban
C. Living conditions remained the same areas.
as before.
C. Rural areas often utilize more electric-
D. Living conditions improved due to in-
ity than urban areas.
creased job opportunities and access to
amenities. D. All of these are true statements.

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82. The average number of people living in a 87. Which continent did the U.S. government
place, per square kilometer. first close off immigration from?
A. Population density A. Europe
B. Population scarcity
B. Asia
C. Population division
C. Antarctica
D. none of above
D. Africa
83. Which of these is the correct definition for
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the term sustainable? 88. Satellite cities of Mumbai are
A. The responsible development and
A. Gurgaon and Noida
management of areas
B. Improvement of a run down area B. Navi Mumbai and Thane
C. Meeting the needs of people without
89. This played a central role in early cities?
damaging the ecological, economic, or so-
cial components of the environment. A. religion
D. People take responsibility for improv- B. finance
ing their living conditions
C. literature
84. According to statistics in 2017, what is the
country with the highest proportion of ur- D. philosophy
ban residents?
90. Identify “pull” factors that brought immi-
A. China grant groups to the U.S.
B. The UK
A. More Freedom, jobs, could own land,
C. The US free education
D. Singapore
B. Children could work, the diversity of
85. Something that states how many immi- food they could buy, ghettos
grants can come to the US from a given
C. Famine, lack of freedom and persecu-
country is called a
tion
A. Ghetto
D. Nicer weather
B. Steerage
C. Quota 91. The “cut and cover” system of tunnel
D. none of above building in New York was when
86. Which of the following statements about A. workers tunneled underground using
urban areas is NOT true? tunneling machines
A. There is traffic congestion. B. workers dug open a trench, laid a tun-
nel in it, and then covered it up again.
B. There are higher crime rates.
C. Public utilities are not readily avail- C. workers dug a tunnel from under-
able. ground to prevent disturbing the street.
D. Slums often develop in and around ur- D. workers used dynamite to destroy a
ban areas. tunnel up and then covered up the mess.

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92. Which of the following is not a problem 97. Crop lands will turn into deserts, there will
experienced by slums? be more hydroelectric dams and sys-
tems will be useless.

A. Youth is involved in smuggling
A. economic
B. Poor sanitation
B. irrigation
C. Decent educational facilities
C. agricultural
D. Uncontrolled growth of informal sec-
tor D. immune
93. What is the movement from rural to urban 98. What is urbanization?
areas called? A. the process of people leaving urban ar-
A. Moving eas and moving to rural areas
B. colonization B. the growth of towns and cities as peo-

ple move from rural areas to urban areas
C. inflation
C. the decline of population in both urban
D. urbanization and rural areas
94. Which of the below technologies is a de- D. none of above

velopment that resulted from the desire to
99. Before skyscrapers, building in New York
trade with neighboring communities?
were usually not taller than 6 floors be-
A. The plow cause
B. Walled cities A. buildings were not strong enough to be
taller
C. Roads
B. people did not like the way tall build-
D. Water Distribution
ings looked
95. Besides the risk of vehicular collisions, C. most people did not want to climb
how else do roads harm wildlife? more than 6 floors of stairs
A. by limiting ability to find mates D. they were illegal to build
B. by limiting ability to find food 100. Based on the map, where are slums and
C. by dividing wildlife populations squatter settlements located?
D. all of these answers are correct
96. Why did many of the first cities begin near

rivers?
A. Rivers were common places to find
valuable metals such as gold and silver.
B. Rivers gave easy access to land in the
mountains. A. Edge of the city
C. Rivers were a source of fresh water, B. Near major transport routes

food, and transportation. C. Near to industrial areas
D. All of the above. D. All of the above

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101. Identify the Urban Model Pictured: storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your hud-
dled masses yearning to breathe free, The
wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost
[tossed] to me, I lift my lamp beside the
golden door!”-Emma Lazarus, “The New
Colossus” This poem is found on which na-
tional landmark?
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A. Concentric Zone Model
A. Plymouth Rock
B. Sector Model
B. Lincoln Memorial
C. Multiple Nuclei Model
C. Statue of Liberty
D. Central Place Theory
D. Independence Hall
102. The 19th century philosophy of Social
106. How many % of humans live in urban ar-
Darwinism maintained that
eas today?
A. the govt should have control over the
A. 45
production and marketplace
B. 54
B. all social class distinctions in American
society should be eliminated C. 65
C. Economic success comes to those who D. 56
are the hardest working and most compe-
107. An increase in population where there are
tent
more births than deaths in a year (birth
D. wealth and income should be more rate-death rate)
equally distributed
A. Birth boost
103. Which is the illegal processes by which B. Birth Increase
real estate agents encourage white flight?
C. Natural Increase
A. Redlining
D. Birth Explosion
B. Ghettoization
C. Segregation 108. a geographic area that is located outside
towns and cities, whatever is not urban,
D. Blockbusting and have a low population density and
104. The belief that native born white Ameri- small settlements
cans were superior to immigrants is called A. Rural Area
A. Nativism B. Urban Area
B. Americanization C. Sprawl
C. Assimilation D. Infrastructure
D. none of above 109. The processing center for the vast ma-
105. Base your answer to the next question on jority of immigrants arriving on the East
the poem below and your knowledge of so- Coast was
cial studies. “Keep ancient lands, your A. Long Island

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B. Staten Island. 115. The areas where most immgirants stayed

C. Angel Island. and lived were called
A. Luxury housing

D. Ellis Island.
B. Farms
110. North America is the most urbanized con-
C. Ghettos
tinent, at %.
D. none of above
A. 80
B. 82 116. One of the following is a smart city, the
others aren’t. Identify the correct one.
C. 90
A. Yelahanka
D. 92
B. Gurugram
111. Cities can reduce their environmental C. Harappa
footprint by implementing which of the fol-
D. Bhubaneshwar
lowing?
A. Green roofing 117. People were able to settle permanently
when they developed new
B. Rain Gardens
A. communication systems
C. Trains
B. agricultural techniques
D. All of these
C. telephones
112. What word describes the population shift D. money systems
from rural to urban areas?
118. Political Machines were usually con-
A. industrialization nected to
B. urbanization A. corruption
C. immigration B. social reforms
D. settlement houses C. women’s rights
113. It is important to remember that Henry D. political espionage
very differently from you. She may E. none of these
not agree to the changes you have made
119. Which of the following is the leading use
in the organization of the company
of water globally?
A. Think
A. Domestic/Residential
B. To think
B. Industry
C. Thinks C. Business/Commercial
D. Thinking D. Agriculture
114. Which of the following is not a side effect 120. The population began to shoot up around
of traffic jams? 1760 because of
A. Waste of time A. Informational Revolution
B. Bad posture B. Industrial Revolution
C. Improvement of social skills C. Technical Revolution
D. Exposure to air and noise pollution D. Political Revolution

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121. In a developing country, the infrastruc- A. downtown

ture is usually B. rural
A. widespread.
C. suburban residential
B. non-existent
D. park
C. limited in rural areas.
D. well developed in rural and urban ar- 126. When financial institutions would refuse
eas. to give loans to poorer neighborhoods.
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A. blockbusting
122. Settlement houses tried to help immi-
grants in many ways. Check off all of the B. white flight
ways they tried to help immigrants in the C. gentrification
late 1800’s
D. redlining
A. taught immigrants the English lan-
guage 127. What are examples of pull factors that
B. provided cooking classes attract people to urban areas?
C. gave them driving lessons A. better infrastructure and services
D. gave music lessons B. unemployment

C. Political instability
123. An informal political group that provided
city services in return for votes & political D. War
power
128. What is the main economic reason cities
A. Party Bosses are located on the coast?
B. Political machine A. High speed internet
C. Populists B. Construction
D. Grange
C. Mining
124. Growth of in urban areas puts pres- D. Trade
sure on essential utilities.
A. Slums 129. Jane Addams started a in Chicago to
help the poor.
B. Schools
C. Infrastructure
D. none of above
125. Based on the graph, which area is the
coolest temperature?
A. hospital
B. assimilation program
C. hotel
D. settlement house

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130. What is rural to urban migration? 134. Which of the following was NOT a rea-
son for the growth of cities soon after the
A. The process whereby people move
Civil War?

from the countryside to the city usually to
look for work and to improve their stan- A. industries were expanding
dard of living. B. immigration was growing
B. The process whereby people move C. many people were moving from farms
from the city to the countryside, usually to cities
to look for work and to improve their stan-
D. people began to use cars more fre-
dard of living.
quently
C. When people own a house in both the
rural area and the city 135. True or False:Chicago is no longer a seg-
regated city.
D. none of above
A. True
131. The outlines the powers of the three B. False
branches and how one checks the other.
136. War, poverty, and discrimination are all
A. U.S. Constitution examples of
B. Articles of Confederation A. Pull Factors
C. Bill of Rights B. Push Factors
D. Declaration of Independence C. Jump Factors
D. Falling Factors
132. What were some problems that the peo-
ple in factories encountered? 137. Crime in cities improved with the increase
of population.
A. True
B. False
138. The were too loosely organized and

included both skilled and unskilled work-
A. long hours, good pay ers that eventually led to the collapse of
the union.
B. Low wages, long hours, dangerous
A. Knights of Labor
C. dangerous, long hours, good pay B. American Federation of Labor
D. low wages, good hours. dangerous
139. What is Urbanization?
133. Clean air provides us a healthy supply
of oxygen
A. For
B. At
C. With
D. About A. Growth of Cities

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B. The Growth of Inventions B. unskilled factory workers

C. The challenge of immigration C. educated professionals
D. The growth of farms D. skilled craftsmen
140. Capital of Kazakhstan 145. Synonyms for ‘slum’
A. Astana A. ghetto
B. Nursultan B. unemployment
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C. London
C. mind set
D. none of above
D. sanitation
141. Do you think that I the problem in a
different way? 146. What was the primary motivation behind
rural-to-urban migration?
A. Comes
A. steady employment
B. Should have solved
B. plentiful land
C. Have solved
C. religious freedom
D. Can solve
D. fear of crime
142. One of the biggest reasons for Urbaniza-
tion in UK is 147. Which is the best definition for porous
pavement?
A. Black Death
B. Industrial Revolution
C. Ice Age
D. World War
143. This is the kind of vegetation and struc-

tures that cover the land. A. Decorative pavement that doesn’t get
wet
A. Land use
B. A paved surface that allows water to
B. Land plants filter through to the ground below
C. Land cover
C. A brick path that leads to a rain gar-
D. Land fills den.
144. Most immigrants found work as D. A sealed driveway that allows water to
run into a rain garden.
148. Which class of women would work a cou-

ple years then married?
A. Upper Class
B. Middle Class (white collar)
C. Working Class (blue collar)
A. scientists and technicians D. none of above

1.1 URBANIZATION 17
149. The approach to development LEAST C. new towns

likely to result in sprawl is
D. squatter settlements

A. leapfrog development.
B. commercial (strip) development. 155. Choose all that apply to the places that
many consider “ghettos” in modern Amer-
C. high-density multi-use development. ica:
D. low-density single-use development A. They are far away from CBDs, where
150. The most effective way to protect biodi- poor citizens can afford the land rent
versity is through B. Citizens often lack services such as
A. habitat fragmentation grocery stores, transportation and ade-
quate police and fire protection
B. habitat destruction
C. Some are slowly being replaced
C. habitat preservation
through the process of gentrification
D. none of above
D. They are almost always culturally, eth-
151. What are impacts of overgrazing? nically and racially diverse neighborhoods
A. pollution and use of more resources 156. In tenements, many apartments were
B. loss of biodiversity, loss of native top- spacious with a lot natural light coming in
soil, desertification through windows.
C. more people than the infrastructure
can support
D. creation of heat islands
152. here yesterday, he would attend the

lecture with us today.
A. had he been
B. If he were A. True
C. Were he
B. False
D. Should be he
157. It’s vital that the United States on im-
153. Which of the following affects urban proving its public education system. What
sprawl? we do now will affect our country for gen-
A. public health erations to come.
B. economic condition A. Focuses
C. pollution B. Focus
D. all of the given options C. Focusing
154. High cost of housing can lead to the de- D. To focus
velopment of in urban areas.
158. Based on the photo, what are the materi-
A. low-income housing als used to build these slums and squatter
B. establishment of suburbs settlements?

1.1 URBANIZATION 18
A. Necessary and proper clause

B. free speech in the 1st amendment
C. Equal protection clause
D. Voting rights provision
164. In the Central Place Theory: is the

A. Flimsy materials like stilts maximum distance people are willing to
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B. bricks travel to use a service
C. Sturdy materials like concrete A. Range
D. Flimsy materials like cardboard and B. Threshold
zinc
C. Centrality
159. Urbanized areas with populations of D. Hinterland
or more have grown exponentially.
A. 500, 000 165. The practice of classifyingareas for differ-
ent types ofdevelopment and land use
B. 250, 000
A. zoning
C. 1 million
D. 2 million B. planning
C. sprawl
160. is movement of water past the soil
going deep into the groundwater. D. none of above
A. Evaporation 166. This became a popular spectator sport in
B. Transpiration the US in the early 1900s.
C. Percolation
D. Sublimation
161. is an urban informal settlement with

sub standard living condition.
A. Squatter settlement
B. An apartment
C. A row house A. football
D. A bungalow B. baseball
162. Immigrants from Europe came here first. C. soccer
They were taken by ferry boat here.
D. basketball
A. Angel Island
B. Ellis Island 167. The increase in urban population slowed
down transportation.
163. The ruling from Plssy v Ferguson was
A. True
based on the Supreme Court’s interpreta-
tion of the B. False

1.1 URBANIZATION 19
168. Which of the following is a hydrological 173. Our effect on the environment-a combina-
problem currently facing the High Plains of tion of what we consume, and the waste
the United States? we produce.

A. over-pumping of the Ogallala aquifer A. Ecological Fingerprint
B. compaction of the San Joaquin valley B. Ecological Footprint
C. mass amounts of human contamina- C. Ecological Image
tion seeping into the aquifer
D. Ecological History
D. flooding of Lake Mead
174. Which of the following is not a positive
169. A consumer change was that people be- effect of urbanization?
gan to
A. Employment opportunities
A. order more by mail
B. Social integration
B. buy in stores more
C. Urban lifestyle
170. What is the long term effect of redlining?
D. Air borne diseases.
A. It has caused the segregation of most
American schools. 175. Urban areas consist of % of the pop-
B. Some of the poorest neighborhoods in ulation.
America today were once redlined neigh- A. 80
borhoods.
B. 3
C. It has caused the integration of most
American cities. C. 20
D. Most of the mortgage officers who D. none of above

practiced redlining are now in jail.
176. Which is a positive effect of urban
171. Where are suburbs located? sprawl?
A. outside of city limits A. there are more affordable houses
B. the inner city B. increased pollution
C. under the city C. destruction of habitats
D. only in Europe D. more taco bells (this one’s not the right
E. none of these answer, but it is true)
172. Cities become known as because they 177. What is the rapid growth of cities called?
heat up and cool down faster than their A. Moving
surrounding areas.
B. colonization
A. hot spots
C. inflation
B. heated lands
D. urbanization
C. heat islands
D. hot islands 178. Where did most immigrants live?

1.1 URBANIZATION 20
183. The inability of the body to maintain

homeostasis because of high tempera-
tures.
A. homeostasis
B. heat stress
C. humidity
A. Most lived in farming communities D. none of above
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B. Most lived in the suburbs 184. In which city model, do the wealthiest
C. Most lived in big cities live furthest away from the CBD?
D. Most lived around lakes A. Concentric

B. Sector
179. The invention of the led to the re-
C. Multiple Nuclei
fining of oil into gasoline becoming prof-
itable. D. none of above
A. automobile 185. Which one is NOT a reason why people
B. type writer tend to enjoy urban areas?
C. telephone A. more jobs
D. steel skyscrapers B. entertainment

C. public transportation
180. A of all Americans is voting in elec-
D. peace and quiet
tions and serving on a jury.
A. Naturalized citizen 186. overload (adj)
B. Philanthropy
C. Civic responsibility
D. U.S. Constitution
181. Trees, grass, crops, wetlands, water,

building, and pavement are types of
A. land cover
B. land uses
A. overload /��.v��l��d/
182. What is the country with the highest pro- B. self-motivated /self �m��.t�.ve�.t�d/
portion of urban residents?
A. China C. upmarket /��p�m��.k�t/
B. UK D. none of above
C. US
187. Some immigrants by adopting Ameri-
D. SIngapore can culture.

1.1 URBANIZATION 21
193. Why are there more people now living in

urban environments?

A. better job opportunities in the city
B. There is more work in rural areas
C. Rural areas have a lower standard of
A. were isolated living and poor services in LEDCs particu-
B. emigrated lar
D. lower crime rate in urban areas
C. assimilated
D. disassociated 194. “Bosses” in political machines often be-
came wealthy by stealing or bribing peo-
188. What is urban sprawl (do light internet ple.
research if needed) A. True
A. When cities shrink in size and become B. False
more centralized
B. When city populations expand into 195. Identify the Urban Model that is de-
broader suburbss and are less centralized scribed:High class residential is around the
outside because these people can afford
189. which was built first? the private transport to get to the city cen-
ter quickly and conveniently.
A. Ellis Island
B. Angel Island
B. Sector Model
190. Which of the following is NOT a cause of C. Multiple Nuclei Model
urban sprawl?
A. automobile and highway construction
196. True/False:Slums are one of the positive
B. mixed land use things that urbanization creates.
C. living costs A. False
D. urban blight B. True
191. True/False:Urbanization doesn’t create 197. How did the expansion of railroad trans-
any problems. portation most benefit farmers in the
A. True United States?
A. By raising the consumer price of agri-
B. False
cultural products
192. Which is not a push factor B. By increasing the variety of locally
A. drought or famine grown crops
C. By providing farmers with affordable
B. political revolution
access to distant markets
C. Religious freedom
D. By encouraging farmers to form the
D. none of above first agricultural cooperatives

1.1 URBANIZATION 22
198. The process by which the population of C. Function

cities grow D. none of above
A. Counterurbanization
203. try to make cities safe, healthy and
B. Ghetto enjoyable places to live. They are espe-
C. Urbanization cially concerned with public spaces that all
citizens share, such as streets and parks.
D. Slum
A. Police officers
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199. What are some impacts of sprawl? B. Teachers
C. City Planners
D. Mayors
204. Does this image represent an urban or ru-
ral area?
A. limit on transportation options

B. increased pollution
C. increased land used for urbanization
and less left as natural spaces
A. Urban
D. promotion of physical activity B. Rural
200. Due to spreading uncollected waste 205. Poverty increased with the increase in ur-
dumps, the government has passed many ban population.
policies to improve urban
A. True
A. sanitation
B. False
B. surrounding
206. The population of hunter-gatherers was
C. migration
low.
D. life A. True
201. What term describes the positive bene- B. False
fits that wildlife or ecosystems provides
to people? 207. All of the following describe edge cites
except
A. ecosystem services
A. they are more convenient places of em-
B. ecosystem ployment for newer suburban communi-
C. biodiversity ties.
D. none of above B. they make it easier for traffic planners
to design mass transit systems.
202. On what basis many countries define ur- C. other uses such as shopping malls and
ban settlement? apartment complexes are also present.
A. Size of its population D. they typically are located at the inter-
B. Age ratio sections of highways.

1.1 URBANIZATION 23
208. What is Urban Sprawl? C. New York

A. Slow growth in an urban area, decreas- D. Los Angelos

ing in resources
213. Is the following an opportunity or a prob-
B. Population decrease in an urban area
lem in regards to Urbanization? Better
C. The rapid growth of an urban area, in- Health Care
creasing development in urban areas
A. Opportunity
D. none of above
B. Problem
209. Which is an example of political ma-
chines? 214. down-to-earth (adj) /�da�n.tu��/
A. Tammany Hall
B. Settlement Houses
C. Labor Unions
D. Nativism
210. By 2050 what percentage of people will

live in Urban areas?
A. 90-100 A. affordable, cheap
B. 80-90 B. realistic/realistic
C. 70-80
215. The Sector Model was created by
D. 60-70
A. Homer Hoyt
211. The powered loom made textile produc- B. EW Burgess
tion easier. What is the best synonym for
“textile?” C. Harris & Ullman
A. Steel D. James Vance
B. Coal 216. What was the famous New York Demo-

C. Cloth cratic political machine called?
D. Cotton
212. Which city built the first skyscraper?
A. Tammany Hall
B. Tammany Tweed
A. Paris C. Thomas Pendergast Machine
B. Chicago D. William M. Tweed Hall

1.1 URBANIZATION 24
217. Why did so many immigrants vote for po- 222. Now that Sally’s Christmas City is ready
litical leaders who were affiliated with ma- to be created, the roads still lead to an
chine politics? area outside of the city for people to live.
A. the politicans were of the same race or What is that called?
religion as the immigrants A. farms
B. the politicians catered to the needs of B. country
the immigrants
C. suburbs
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C. political leaders threatened the immi-
grants when they arrived D. urban
D. the politicians provided protection for
business owners 223. a country with a lot of industrial activ-
ity and where people generally have high
218. The shift of population from the country- incomes
side to a city is called: A. developed country
A. land use
B. developing country
B. urbanization
C. infrastructure 224. What is urbanization?
D. land cover A. the shift of people from towns and
cities to rural areas
219. People began growing crops and domes-
ticating animals B. the mordenisation of the cities
A. in the 1500’s. C. the shift of people to another
B. during the Industrial Revolution. D. the shift of people from rural areas to
C. during the 1st Agricultural Revolution. urban areas
D. during the French Revolution. 225. I would rather she tomorrow than to-
day
220. Florence Kelly
A. was a reformer who helped women A. Come
and children B. Came
B. worked at the Hull House in Illinois C. Should
C. wrote about problems in the sweat-
D. Has come
shops
D. All of the above 226. True/False:Urbanization offers an oppor-
tunity to provide services like water, elec-
221. Immigrants went through a series of
tricity, education, and healthcare to more
what once they entered the ports?
people, more efficiently.
A. literacy test
A. True
B. Underground Passages
B. False
C. Health tests
D. none of above 227. cost saving (adj)

1.1 URBANIZATION 25
232. Which one is sustainable transport indica-

tor?

A. The increased convenience and lower
price for parking, it is better
B. The higher rating roadway of LOS, it is
better
C. The lower crash rate per vehicle km
travel, it is better
A. cost-effective /�k�st.��fek.t�v/
D. The less traffic crash injuries and
B. downmarket /�da�n�m��.k�t/ deaths, it is better
C. down-to-earth /�da�n.tu��/
D. none of above 233. What is urbanization?
228. Sustainable transport give impact on A. People living in cities

A. Economic B. The movement of people from rural ar-
B. Environmental eas into cities
C. Renewable Energy C. The growing of cities

D. Social D. none of above
229. Which country has the highest urbaniza-
234. LIC stands for what?
tion rate from 1990-2000?
A. low income city
B. Low investment company
C. Low infrastructure city
D. Low income country
A. Australia
B. Denmark 235. A rise in pollution leads to rise in al-
C. Dominican Republic lergies and respiratory diseases.
D. Indonesia A. Noise
E. Ethiopia B. Air
230. Cities allow for more land preservation C. Water
since more people live in one area.
D. none of above
A. True
B. False 236. How many people live in slums?
231. true/false:the chinese exclusion act is A. 1 million
not an example of immigration restriction
B. 10 million
in America
A. True C. 100 million
B. False D. 1 billion

1.1 URBANIZATION 26
237. What is rural-urban migration? 242. The belief that some races are innately
A. The movement of people from one superior to others.
area to another. A. discrimination
B. The movement of people from rural B. Racism
area into cities. C. assimilation
C. The movement of people within the D. progressive
Caribbean.
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D. The movement of people within the 243. Primary type of land cover in the United
same community States today is
A. Cropland
238. Victorian Morality dictated that men and
B. Urban land
women live in different spheres-men did
what? Women did what? C. Forest land
A. Business, homemaker D. none of above
B. Both were factory workers 244. Specialized IndustriesImmigration to
C. Factory worker, homemaker AmericaMovement of AmericansWhich ti-
tle best describes this list?
D. Business, Waitress
A. Resources for the Development of
239. Push factor cities
A. things that make people want to leave B. Reasons for Immigration to the United
an area such as high crime, lack of educa- States
tion & health services C. Reasons for the Growth of Cities
B. things that attract people to move to D. none of above
an area such as greater employment op-
portunities 245. Does deforestation contribute to global
warming?
240. An area’s urbanization rate can tell
A. No, trees aren’t that important
you
B. Sometimes because only the cutting
A. about people’s economic status
down of Maple trees contributes to global
B. what % of people have shifted from ru- warming
ral areas to urban areas
C. No, deforestation adds methane to
C. why people are moving the atmosphere, which makes the Earth
D. how people’s daily lives have changed cooler
over time D. Yes; less trees means less CO2 is
turned into oxygen.
241. Today, 80% of people live in
246. This is the leading city of a country, which
A. Rural areas
is disproportionately larger than the rest
B. Urban areas of the cities in a country.
C. Islands A. Edge City
D. Maryland B. World City

1.1 URBANIZATION 27
C. Megalopolis 251. is an urban area or metropolitan area

D. Primate City that is significantly warmer than its sur-
rounding rural areas due to human activi-

247. What does this image say about why ties
workers looked up to political bosses? A. Infrastructure
B. Heat Island
C. Land Use
D. Urbanization
252. The New Immigrants who came to the

United States after 1880
A. had experience with democratic gov-
A. The workers wanted to quit their jobs
ernments
B. The workers did not like the political
B. arrived primarily from Germany, Swe-
bosses
den, and Norway
C. political bosses helped immigrants
find jobs and handed out other favors in C. were culturally different from previous
return for their vote. immigrants
D. none of above D. received a warm welcome from the Old

Immigrants
248. Rome had 53, 000 miles of these that
helped connect its vast empire. 253. A jackhammer is what type of pollution?
A. Bridges A. light
B. Roads B. water
C. Aqueducts C. noise
D. Stadiums D. none of above
249. Net migration from urban to rural areas 254. Most children are ill-prepared em-
in more developed countries ployment
A. Urbanization A. To
B. Counterurbanization
B. For
C. Hinterland
C. From
D. Primate city
D. At
250. The United Kingdom has established
greenbelts around certain cities to prevent 255. How many years a new baby can expect
what? to live for, on average
A. Major traffic tie-ups A. Life expectancy
B. urban sprawl B. Life length
C. The spread of poverty C. Lifetime
D. unbearable pollution D. Lifestyle

1.1 URBANIZATION 28
256. What is the phrase ‘stop, stop paying at- 262. increased air & water pollution are envi-
tention’ in English? ronmental impacts of urbanization
A. expand A. True
B. switch off B. False
C. self-motivate 263. What were tenements?
D. centralize A. overcrowded apartments where dis-
ease spread
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257. allowed cities to grow vertically in
order to use less land. B. places that provided services to immi-
grants
A. Trains
C. a type of factory
B. Skyscrapers
D. beautiful houses for factory owners
C. factories
D. none of above 264. Which of the following factor is not true
about rural education facilities?
258. It is not a characterstic of smart city. A. Teachers are under qualified
A. Not providing housing for all B. Class infrastructure is poor
B. Boost local economy C. Computer labs are good
C. Ensure security D. Student drop out rates are high
D. none of above 265. Developed countries have a higher per-
259. The effects of urban areas on the environ- centage of urban residents, however,
ment are countries have MORE of the very large ur-
ban settlements.
A. negative only.
A. developing
B. positive only.
B. developed
C. both positive and negative.
266. Our numbers have been growing fast for
D. nonexistent.
250 years.
260. New immigrants came from A. True
A. North/Western Europe B. False
B. Africa 267. How do cities contribute to the heat is-
C. Southern/Eastern Europe land effect?
D. none of above
261. In the Central Place Theory: *is the

minimum number of people required to sup-
port the service
A. Range
B. Threshold
A. By generating heat through air condi-
C. Centrality tioning, burning fossil fuels, and other sim-
D. Hinterland ilar occurrences

1.1 URBANIZATION 29
B. By reducing wind speeds C. zoning

C. By trapping heat D. Land cover

D. All of the answers are correct
272. Which is an example of a World City?
268. According to the graph, how urbanized A. Cleveland, Ohio
would the United States have been in
2007? B. Vienna, Austria
C. home and japan
D. London, England
273. poverty-related crimes are highest in the

city
A. true
A. 44% B. false
B. 60%
274. What is the annual increase of Australia’s
C. 50%
population (as of 2013)
D. 75%
A. 7%
269. prolonged (adj) B. 50%
C. 1%
D. 2%
275. Which best describes the working condi-

tions of most immigrants during the Indus-
trial Revolution?
A. long-lasting/�l��l��.st��/
A. Most immigrants worked long hours in
B. kind-hearted /�ka�nd�h��.t�d/ low-paying industrial jobs
C. downmarket /�da�n�m��.k�t/ B. Most immigrants worked as farmers in
D. none of above rural areas
270. By the 1890s, more than half of all immi- C. Most immigrants worked as bookkeep-
grants in the United States were ers or other professional jobs
A. European Jews. D. Most immigrants worked as tailors or

other skilled jobs
B. eastern and southern Europeans.
C. Chinese. 276. What is NOT an environmental benefit
D. Japanese. that results from urbanization?
A. Efficiency
271. the practice of classifying areas for dif-
ferent types of development and land use. B. Universities and research centers
A. Urban sprawl C. Land preservation
B. urbanization D. More fossil fuels

1.1 URBANIZATION 30
277. Push factors are
A. loss of habitat
B. increased green house gasses
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A. good things that draw a person to an- C. soil erosion and flooding
other country D. all of the above
B. reasons that drive a person out of their 282. Sally was elected the Mayor of Christmas
country Town. She wants to turn Christmas town
C. reasons people migrate to a new area into a big city. Lets help her. What type
of area does she want Christmas town to
become?
D. none of above
A. urban
278. What is NOT an environmental cost of ur- B. suburban
banization? C. rural
A. Increased water D. farming
B. Industrial byproducts 283. To be a megacity, the city must have over
C. Fossil fuels 10 Billion people.
D. More green energy A. True

B. False
279. What bridge in New York became the
world’s longest suspension bridge in 284. Urbanization is
1883? A. A myth
A. Golden Gate Bridge B. the social and economic changes in an
area due to increase in population
B. London Bridge
C. The social and environmental changes
C. Brooklyn Bridge in an area due to increase in population
D. Seven Mile Bridge D. The process of building cities to cater
to the architectural desires of the govern-
280. When did the most rapid pace of urban- ment
ization take place?
285. what is the leading cause of deforesta-
A. 10, 000-12, 000 years ago tion?
B. At the start of the Industrial Revolution
C. Over last 50 years
D. During the 19th century
281. What are the effects of deforestation?

1.1 URBANIZATION 31
A. Diseases C. Access to higher paid service sector

B. Housing market jobs

C. Agriculture and Farming D. All of the options
D. Paper mill
290. Population density is the measurement of
286. Economic opportunities, religious free- in an area.
dom, and political and social equality are A. people
all examples of
B. cars
A. Push Factors
B. Pull Factors C. cities
C. Falling Factors D. dogs
D. Jump Factors
291. Young Americans are attracted to the
287. What is not one of the reasons why ur- cities because due to various social activ-
ban planning is important? ities and short commutes to groceries or
shopping areas.
A. to prevent urban sprawl
B. to help prevent some of the impacts of A. True
urbanization B. False
C. to make the city look nice with beauti-
ful architecture 292. Which of the following is a ‘push factor’
D. to make the best use of the land for migration?
A. Upward mobility
288. people accused of crimes must be read
their rights (Miranda v. Arizona); Eminent B. More services available
Domain.
C. Fewer and lower paying jobs
D. More educational opportunities
293. What is one of the goals of New York

city’s sustainability plan?
A. limit access to parks
B. improve mass transit
A. 1st Amendment
C. increase energy use
B. 5th Amendment
C. 2nd Amendment D. none of above
D. 10th Amendment 294. Is the following an opportunity or a prob-

289. Which of the following is a pull factor to lem in regards to Urbanization? Better Ed-
urban areas? ucation
A. Better services like malls and cinema A. Opportunity

B. Electricity and water available B. Problem

1.1 URBANIZATION 32
295. Which one of the following statement is 300. Which reform movements did the middle
a true representation of site or situation? class women become involved in (select all
A. The site is the piece of land on which that apply)?
the settlement is located. A. Abolition (end of slavery)
B. The situation is the piece of land on B. Prohibition
which the settlement is located. C. Child Labor
C. The site is given in relation to sur- D. Women suffrage
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rounding features such as settlements.
E. Housing development
D. The situation is determined by physical
factors such as flat lands. 301. New technology helped farmers produce
more crops, which tended to
296. Wabash v. Illinois 1886
A. lower prices.
A. states can’t set rates on interstate
commerce. B. raise prices.
B. states could regulate the railroads C. raise quality.
C. interstate commerce is controlled by D. lower quality.

the states 302. European cities limit sprawl with ordi-
D. abolished slavery nances and greenbelts. This is known as
297. Urbanization had several negative rami- A. Gentrification

fications including- B. Smart growth
A. the lack of cultural diversity in cities C. Urban renewal
B. people moving out of the city due to D. Infilling
cramped conditions
303. The area inside the city is called
C. poor sanitation conditions including
contaminated drinking water A. urban
D. not allowing Catholic immigrants into B. suburban

large cities C. rural
298. What was the name of the first and D. none of above
largest settlement house, founded by Jane
304. Making things with machine rather than
Addams?
by hand
A. Addams House
A. Industrialization
B. Helping House B. Commercialization
C. Full House C. Urbanization
D. Hull House D. Gentrification
299. Things that tend to attract people to a 305. Includes a CBD with a commercial spine,
new area quality of houses decrease as one moves
A. Push Factors outward
B. Pull Factors A. Peripheral Model

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B. Latin American Model 311. All of the following were the first cities
in America EXCEPT.
C. Asian model

A. Jamestown
D. Galactic Model
B. Boston
306. the amount of something
C. St. Augustine
A. rise D. Chicago
B. increase
312. What were the very top leaders of polit-
C. migration ical machines called?
D. rate A. precinct captains
307. Edwin Drake made drilling for oil beneath B. party bosses
the Earth’s surface practical with the use C. ward bosses
of what?
D. lieutenants
A. steam engine
313. A graft in the late 19th century
B. pickaxe
A. was when the doctor sewed some-
C. drill bit
one’s finger back on
D. oil derrick
B. involved politicians accepting over-
priced contract bids and then splitting the
308. Which statement about sustainable cities
money between themselves, party bosses
is true?
and the businesses.
A. no major cities have made significant
C. was an honest way of doing business.
progress toward sustainability yet
D. involved the president’s cabinet smug-
B. they often help encourage sprawl
gling foreign money.
C. they are only successful in developed
world 314. Which of the following concepts is asso-
ciated with the Gospel of Wealth?
D. they can help improve the standard of
living for residents A. Survival of the Fittest
B. Let it be
309. Is the following an opportunity or a prob-
lem in regards to Urbanization? Smog C. Unregulated Competition
A. Opportunity D. Philanthropy
B. Problem 315. Check off all of the positive things that

political machines tried to do for immi-
310. The Latin American Model was created by grants.
A. EW Burgess A. improved city schools
B. Homer Hoyt B. improved hospitals
C. Griffen & Ford C. improved roads
D. Chauncey Harris D. improved water systems

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316. Which of the three models of urbaniza- 321. An increase in the number of factories in
tion states that a city begins in the middle the mid-1800’s led to
and grows outward?
A. An increased dependence on products
A. urban renewal model made in homes
B. multiple nuclei model B. An increase in urbanization
C. sector model C. A decrease in levels of water and air
D. concentric zone model pollution
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317. A type of involuntary migration include D. A reduction in immigration from Eu-
rope
A. a camp 322. He is poor. If he rich, he wouldn’t

B. moving to reunite with family have to rent this small apartment
C. going to A. Is
D. religious persecution B. Were
318. The teacher asked Rose by heart 15 C. Be

English words each day D. Would be
A. Learn
323. another word for “to fit in, cause to re-
B. To learn semble”
C. Must learn
A. fascinating
D. Learning
B. assimilate
319. Which one is not the name of an area of C. nativist
highly populated, urban residential area of
low quality housing with poor infrastruc- D. none of above
ture?
324. What is true about noise pollution?
A. Slum
B. Shanty Town
C. Katana Town
D. Favela
320. What was one purpose of the Settlement

House movement in the United States?
A. to increase immigrant participation in A. brightening of the night sky caused by
labor unions artificial lights
B. to facilitate the assimilation of immi- B. harmful or annoying levels of noise
grants C. can cause health effects such as hy-
C. to improve relations between religious pertension, high stress, hearing loss,
and political groups sleep disturbances
D. to maintain the balance of religious D. can cause health effects such
freedom and political rights as:cancer, sleep disturbances

1.1 URBANIZATION 35
325. Identify the kind of settlement shown in A. Cities grew rapidly.

the picture. B. Demand for artisans increased.

C. Farms experienced a shortage of la-
bor.
D. Government regulate of factories in-
creased.
329. What is Tammany Hall?

A. Helped immigrants in New York?
A. Rural huts
B. Abolished immigrants.
B. metropolitan skyscrapers
C. Aided convicts back to health.
C. slums or shanties
D. none of above
D. hygienic housing colonies
330. What is the name of this building?
326. Positive Outcomes:Created New Jobs,
Improved Transportation and Produced
new goods. Negative Outcomes:Loss of
Natural Habitat, Pollution, and Which
BEST completes the list?
A. child labor nations
B. women in the workforce
C. poor working conditions
D. the creation of highways A. Taipei 101
B. Burj Khalifa
327. Limited food is a
C. The Space Needle
D. Makkah Royal Clock Tower
331. True or False:jobs and schools that are

in separate cities are considered “smart
growth”
A. pull factor
A. True
B. push factor
B. False
328. Which sentence best completes this dia-
gram? 332. In Hoyt’s Sector Model lower income
neighborhoods are usually located
A. in a wedge that extends from the CBD
to the suburbs.
B. adjacent to the industrial and trans-
portation corridor
C. on the east side of the city.
D. in the first ring around the CBD.

1.1 URBANIZATION 36
333. Where did most immigrants live when 338. Thomas Edison created the world’s first
they came to America? in Menlo Park, New Jersey
A. Trenton A. research lab
B. Tenements B. recycling plant
C. Suburbs C. steel factory
D. Rural towns D. typewriter
334. expensive, luxurious (adj)
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339. Define the term mega city
A. A city with a population over 8 million
B. A city with a population over 10 million
C. A city with a population over 11 million
D. A city with a population over 7 million
A. downmarket /�da�n�m��.k�t/ 340. What religion was Salim and Jamal in the
B. upmarket /��p�m��.k�t/ movie Slumdog Millionare?
C. time-consuming /�ta�m.k�n�sju�.m��/ A. Christian
B. Buddhist
D. none of above C. Hindu
335. What is urban sprawl? D. Muslim
A. People living in cities
341. One of the following statements is a fea-
B. People moving into rural areas ture of a satellite city. Identify the correct
C. Expanding city boarders one.
D. none of above A. It has its own municipal government
and its own water supply and waste man-
336. Which of the following is an advantage agement system.
of urbanization?
B. It is not connected to its neighbouring
A. better education and healthcare
larger city by an efficient public transport
B. garbage / pollution decreases system.
C. more spacious living conditions for C. Most services in the city are provided
people online
D. none of above D. It has many factories and industrial
337. Which early 1900s group is BEST charac- townships.
terized by this list? * Overcrowded tene-
342. Which of the following occurred between
ment apartments* Dangerous working con-
1865 and 1900 as a result of the rapid
ditions* Segregated ethnic neighborhoods
industrialization of the United States?
A. migrant laborers in mining towns
A. Social and economic class divisions be-
B. inner-city political machines gan to disappear
C. immigrants in urban areas B. Concerns about air pollution led to
D. labor union leaders stricter environmental regulations.

1.1 URBANIZATION 37
C. Union membership increased as work- 348. Early cities and the city of Chicago both
ers sought better pay and conditions. developed by which physical feature?

D. Factory owners introduced wage- A. a desert
equity policies for women in the work-
place. B. a body of water
C. a mountain
343. Which object below would have an
albedo score of 0. D. grasslands
A. A green forest
349. A(n) is an area in which the tempera-
B. A deep blue ocean
ture is several degrees higher than that of
C. Fresh clean snow the surrounding area.
D. A pitch black rooftop A. Heat Island
344. increased with the growth of cities. B. Rural Area
To solve the problem, cities created police
departments. C. Urban Area
A. poverty D. Infrastructure
B. politics
350. The transfer from the handy-craft sys-
C. crime tem to machine technology and factories
D. none of above is called:
345. Which keyword describes migration from A. Urbanization

the countryside to the city? B. Revolution
A. Urban-rural
C. Industrialization
B. Rural-urban
D. Civilization
C. Counterurbanisation
D. Reurbanisation 351. Where did most immigrants come from in
the late 1800’s to early 1900’s?
346. Sustainable cities has residents who are
committed to reducing their energy, water
and food use and their outputs of heat,
CO2, methane, and water and air pollu-
tion.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
347. Which does not mean ‘Sumptuous’?

A. Asia
A. Inferior
B. Splendid B. Europe
C. Expensive C. Australia
D. Opulent D. South America

1.1 URBANIZATION 38
352. The Interstate Commerce Act (1887) was 357. Which of the following was the most per-
designed to regulate interstate commerce sistent problem facing municipalities in the
by requiring United States throughout the last quarter
of the 19th century?
A. RRs to increase rebates to high-
volume users A. Decreasing municipal tax base
B. RRs to charge higher rates for short B. Inadequate water and sewer systems
hauls C. Deteriorating transportation systems
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C. States to regulate interstate rr traffic D. A decline in the number of manufactur-
D. The federal government to regulate rr ing jobs
rates
358. According to this city model, hotels and
353. During the early 1900s, large number of restaurants would pop up next to an air-
African Americans from the South found port. The CBD has also lost its significance.
better job opportunities A. Concentric
A. In northern cities B. Sector
B. In Pacific Coast lumber yards C. Multiple Nuclei
C. On southwestern ranches D. Urban Realms
D. On Great Plains farms 359. Which of the following regions contains

large amounts of slums?
354. Satellite towns/cities are connected to
A. Anglo America
the metropolis by trains and motorways.
B. Sub Sahara Africa
A. True
C. Western Europe
B. False
D. Australia
355. The term urbanization refers to-
360. Page 616ANGEL ISLANDWhere was An-
A. the movement of people to rural areas gel Island located?
from urban centers
A. on the East Coast in New York City
B. the manufacturing of goods by ma-
B. on the West Coast in San Francisco
chines rather than by hand
C. in the Southeast in Atlanta
C. building of canals and roads to im-
prove interstate transportation D. In the Midwest in Chicago
D. the movement of people from rural ar- 361. A rural area is one that
eas to urban centers
A. in, relating to, or characteristic of the
356. suddenly or obviously countryside rather than the town.
B. refers to a big city.
A. ratio
C. one that is full of cars, subways, and
B. slightly
trains.
C. significantly
D. is full of skyscrapers and industrial
D. dramatically parks.

1.1 URBANIZATION 39
362. Land that is kept untouched but is used 368. According to statistics in 2020, how
for hiking and other leisure activities many percent of Vietnamese population
live in urban areas?

A. Transport land
B. Agricultural Land A. nearly 20%
B. nearly 30%
C. Residential Land
C. nearly 40%
D. Recreational Land
D. nearly 50%
363. Which of the following statements is NOT
true about trolleys 369. In the core-periphery model, which re-
gions of Toronto would represent core,
A. they were invented after the NYC Sub- semi-periphery and periphery, respec-
way. tively?
B. they were cleaner than horse-cars A. Outskirts, suburbs, downtown
C. they were faster than horse-cars B. Suburbs, outskirts, downtown
D. they were replaced by buses C. Suburbs, downtown, outskirts
364. What makes a neighborhood a “ghetto” D. Downtown, suburbs, outskirts
is that it has E. Downtown, outskirts, suburbs
A. only one race or group of people
370. Urban or rural?:People have a longer life
B. bad housing expectancy (live longer)
C. low rents A. Urban
D. high crime B. Rural
365. The goal of Ellis island was to 371. Increased temperature in a city due to
A. get immigrants jobs generated and trapped thermal energy cre-
ates what is known as a(n)
B. get immigrants houses
A. infrastructure
C. screen immigrants
B. urban sprawl
D. none of above
C. heat islands
366. Most new immigrants settled in the D. none of above
A. County 372. What is urbanization?
B. West A. the increase in immigration
C. City B. the increase of people living in cities
D. East C. the increase in internal migration
367. Who invented the light bulb? D. the increase of people living on farms
A. Alexander Graham Bell 373. Chinese Exclusion Act:
B. Jane Addams A. Allowed more immigrants
C. Thomas Edison B. Banned freedom of speech
D. Boss Tweed C. Restricted working conditions

1.1 URBANIZATION 40
D. Prevented people from immigrating to 379. Satellite cities do not have

the U.S.
A. art gallery
374. An immigration station in NYC
B. multiplexes
A. Angel Island
C. museum
B. Ellis Island
C. Puerto Rico D. polluting industries
D. Hawaiian islands
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380. Populists supported federal ownership of
375. multi-family apartments, usually dark, rrs because they thought the government
crowded, and barely meeting minimal liv- would
ing standards
A. increase access to rrs in rural areas
A. tenure
B. tenement B. make the trains run on time
C. skyscraper C. manage the rrs in the public interest
D. none of above D. collect enough revenue to allow it to
376. Public transit led to urbanization because eliminate the graduated income tax
A. people were forced to migrate 381. Which of the following reason would re-
sult in the development of a urban center
B. immigrants were moving away from at Y in the sketch diagram above?
large cities
C. laws forced immigrants to live to-
gether
D. fast travel allowed people to live fur-
ther away from their jobs
377. This picture shows the CBD area of a city
A. The presence of natural harbor

B. The presence of a swamp
C. It is located on a hilly terrain
D. It is located in the southern section of
the sketch map
A. True
B. False
382. Antonym of ‘Mitigate’
378. What is the least urbanised continent?
A. alleviate
A. Asia
B. relieve
B. South America
C. Australia C. ease
D. Africa D. aggravate

1.1 URBANIZATION 41
383. Which best describes the living conditions A. Migration due to inadequate crop pro-
of most immigrants during the Industrial duction
Revolution?

B. Migration due to poor weather
A. Most immigrants lived in rural areas
C. Migration due to excessive income
with few other people around
D. Migration due to large farm debts
B. Most immigrants lived in cities in ex-
tremely crowded buildings 389. Who can create an area to be a national
C. Most immigrants lived in single-family park?
homes A. The president and the Supreme Court
D. Most immigrants lived in homeless B. Congress and the Supreme Court
shelters year-round
C. The president and congress
384. years ago humans were
D. All three branches
A. Settlers
B. Hunter Gatherers 390. One method of segregation used in the
South after the Civil War
385. Children small size made the perfect for A. Cooperative
mines and textile factories because their
small size allowed them to fit into tight B. Poll Tax
spaces. C. Tenement
A. True D. Graft
B. False
391. In the Concentric Zone Model, the city is
386. An approach to urban design that com- made up of
bines different types of land use within A. rings around one central business dis-
a particular neighborhood or district. (i.e trict
combing businesses and housing).
B. sectors or multiple sections of differ-
A. Planned Communities ent class-type living
B. Circulation
C. multiple centers of business
C. Mixed Use Development
D. false
D. Infill
392. Which is a reason for the growth of
387. What is the name given to a settlement cities?
where the buildings are arranged in a line
e.g. along a main road? A. educational opportunities
A. Nucleated B. job opportunities

B. Dispersed C. wanting to learn about other cultures
C. Rounded D. better houses
D. Linear 393. The population of Western Europe has in-
388. Which of the following push factor re- creased because of
lated to agriculture is irrelevant to urban- A. Immigrants coming from Eastern Eu-
ization? rope

1.1 URBANIZATION 42
B. Political instability in other parts of the A. Air pollution

world. B. Land pollution
C. Stable governments C. Noise pollution
D. All of the Above D. Water pollution
394. There are national parks in every state. 399. self-motivated (adj)
A. True
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B. False
395. I her if she didn’t understand

A. Would tell
B. Will tell
C. Would have told
D. told
396. .... is the main cause of rise in urban pop- A. self-motivated /self �m��.t�.ve�.t�d/
ulation.
A. Rural-urban migration B. upmarket /��p�m��.k�t/
B. Rural-urban transformation C. downmarket /�da�n�m��.k�t/
C. Industrialization D. none of above
D. none of the above 400. Which country has the lowest urban pop-
ulation in 2010?
397. Opportunity to make more money is a
A. Australia
B. Denmark
A. push factor C. Dominican Republic
B. pull factor D. Indonesia
398. What urban problem is shown in the fig- E. Ethiopia
ure?
401. Which is more likely to have higher tem-
peratures due to the urban heat island ef-
fect?
A. city (downtown)
B. rural area
C. residential
D. commercial area

1.1 URBANIZATION 43
402. offered services to help immigrants 407. In this model, circular rings extend out-
learn skills so they could stop working in ward from the city. The suburbs is in the
factories and obtain less dangerous higher outer zone.

paying jobs. A. Concentric
A. Settlement houses B. Sector
B. Political machines C. Multiple Nuclei
C. City bosses D. Urban Realms
D. Immigration stations
408. Cities grew because of all these except:
403. Who founded the most famous settle- A. Immgration
ment house in New York City? B. Jobs
A. Harriet Tubman C. Railroads
B. Clara Barton D. Farming
C. Jane Addams
409. Metropolis means a small city
D. Eleanor Roosevelt
A. True
404. A group that controlled a political party. B. False
410. What is the definition Noise Pollution?

A. Unwanted noise
B. Excess noise produced by humans
C. Unwanted noise that distrubs all life
D. none of above
411. The basic physical and organizational

structures and facilities (e.g., buildings,
A. Graft roads, and power supplies) needed for the
B. Political machine operation of a society or enterprise.
C. Boss Tweed A. Land Use
D. none of above B. Infrastructure

C. Rural
405. Capital
D. Suburbs
A. Site
412. Rural land is also described as
B. Situation
A. Large open areas or forested areas
406. The pattern of where people live. B. Places with large cities
A. Demographics
413. Working class individuals in cities usually
B. Economics lived
C. Population Distribution A. in the streetcar suburbs
D. Recession B. in tenements

1.1 URBANIZATION 44
C. in fashionable downtown districts C. farmers wanting to own more land and

D. away from the central city therefore moving farther into the country
to own more land
414. The workers take jobs in sectors, D. the federal government mandating fac-
such as education tory workers make a minimum wage to
A. skilled support their families
B. semi-skilled 419. As roads increase in number, how does
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C. unskilled this affect the population size of organ-
D. industrial isms living in that habitat?
A. Decrease, then increase
415. Metropolises have at least
B. Overall decrease
A. 10, 000
C. Increase exponentially
B. 100, 000
D. Increase, then decrease
C. 1, 000, 000
D. 10, 000, 000 420. This cover from a nineteenth-century pe-
riodical helps illustrate that the United
416. Innovative problem-solving businessmen States was beginning to change from-
who helped to spark the U.S. economy and
donated money to charitable causes
A. captains of industry
B. robber barons
C. aristocracy
D. let it happen
417. is a process in which certain groups of

people, often the better off, leave urban
areas for rural areas
A. a mostly rural society to a mostly ur-

ban one
B. a slave-owning society to one without
slavery
C. a foreign policy of isolationism to one
A. counter urbanisation /�ka�n.t�r/ of interventionism
/��.b�n.a��ze�.��n/ D. a direct democracy to a representative
B. urbanisation /��.b�n.a��ze�.��n/ one
418. Urbanization resulted from- 421. Movement of people from rural areas to
A. people wanting to be a part of city life into cities is known as
B. growth of industrialization and job op- A. land-use planning

portunities in cities B. urbanization

1.1 URBANIZATION 45
C. gis (geographic information system) A. Lack of funds

D. none of above B. Minimal travel times to places of inter-

est
422. ‘Time consuming’ in English is
C. More emphasis on private over public
A. thought-provoking education
B. upmarket
D. Too many food stores
C. time-consuming
D. weather-beaten 426. Push or Pull?Lack of entertainment
A. Push
423. Which is NOT a benefit of Green roofs
B. Pull
427. The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. is a

good example of a(n)
A. festival landscape
A. absorbing rainwater and reducing the B. symbolic landscape
amount that goes into streams and rivers
C. military landscape
B. providing insulation to the building and
D. urban landscape
reduce heating and cooling bills
C. providing space to park additional cars 428. Who was the president when the Jungle
D. helping to lower urban air tempera- was published?
tures and mitigate the urban heat island A. Ulysses S. Grant
effect
B. Theodore Roosevelt
424. planned economic and community de- C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
velopment that attempts to curb urban
sprawl and worsening environmental con- D. Andrew Jackson
ditions
429. cities in the late 1800’s expanded with
A. City Planning the development of all of the following ex-
B. Urban growth boundary (UGB) cept
C. Smart Growth A. subway
D. Zoning B. skyscrapers
425. Small settlements have which of the fol- C. airplanes

lowing issues? D. suspension bridges
430. William M. Tweed was

A. the designer of the first skyscraper.
B. the inventor of the electric trolley car.
C. the leader of the Workingman’s Party.
D. the party boss of a political machine.

1.1 URBANIZATION 46
431. What is one of the primary factors that 436. Oil was initially refined for what pur-
draws people from rural areas to urban ar- pose?
eas? A. Kerosene
A. less pollution
B. Gasoline
B. more jobs
C. Heaters
C. more open space
D. Electricity
D. heat islands
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437. Why do we see high rates of urbanisation
432. The spreading out of cities that creates occuring in developing countries?
“car culture” is called
A. high rates of rural to rural migration
A. suburban sprawl
B. Cities experience high rates of natural
B. urban sprawl
increase in population
C. suburban crisis
C. Most new economic development in
D. urban crisis these countries is concentrated in the big
cities
433. What is the number 1 challenge to main-
tain the sustainability of a city? D. rural areas in LEDCs are not developed
A. The security and safety of the infras- E. all of the above
tructure
438. The monk insisted that the tourists
B. Equilibrium in inflows and outflows of the temple until they ahd removed their
energy, water, food and all essential ma- shoses
terials
A. Not entering
C. The lack of renewable energy, job op-
portunity and well being happiness B. Not to enter
D. To maintain the economic growth C. Not enter
434. Sustainable cities maintain air quality D. Entered

through
439. What is the name given to a settlement
A. Reducing gas emissions from cars where the buildings are very spread out?
B. Wind energy employment A. Dispersed
C. Conservation of renewable resources B. Nucleated
D. none of above C. Rounded
435. Urban areas having higher than average D. Linear
temperatures than surrounding rural areas
due to absorption and retention of passive 440. the process of people travelling to an-
solar energy are known as other place
A. suburbs A. rise
B. heat islands B. rural
C. hot air C. migration
D. tropical islands D. urbanization

1.1 URBANIZATION 47
441. Which word means related to farms or B. land use

“the country?” C. infrastructure

D. ecological footprint
447. Urban sprawl increases carbon dioxide
emissions by
A. expanding the use of public transporta-
tion
A. urban B. increase the need to drive
B. suburban C. resulting in more tree growth
C. rural D. generating more factories
D. none of above 448. Factors that make people to move to an-
other country/city
442. Resource that can be replaced at a rate
close to its rate of use or in an unlimited A. Push factors
supply. B. Pull factors
A. Renewable resource 449. People tend to rural to urban areas
B. Nonrenewable resource as they become
443. related to industry or having highly de-

veloped industries (adj)
A. industrial
B. agricultural
444. city boasts one of the cleanest public

transport systems in the world.
A. migrate from, richer
A. Delhi
B. live in, poor
B. Karachi C. migrate to, rich
C. Chicago D. stay in, poorer
D. Barcelona
450. The name for local neighborhood stores
445. In Toronto, are there also regions where that sold “a little bit of everything” is
immigrants and natives are mixed to- A. department store
gether (Less distinct regions than China
B. marble palace
Town, Littlet Italy etc.)?
C. barter
A. Yes
D. general store
B. No
451. Factories making specific items is called
446. Transportation systems, communication
A. SPECIALIZATION
systems, water services, power supplies,
schools, and hospitals are all examples of B. URBANIZATION
C. IMMIGRATION
A. rural areas D. INDUSTRIALIZATION

1.1 URBANIZATION 48
452. Urban areas consist of % of the land. C. green building design

A. 80 D. none of above
B. 3
457. The benefits of a green roof are
C. 20
A. It saves residents having a real garden
D. none of above
B. it can harvest rainwater & looks attrac-
453. It was common for children to begin tive
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working at the age of five. By 1810,
about 2 million school-age children were C. you can install solar panels easily
working 50-to 70-hour weeks. Most D. you can walk on it
came from poor families
A. True 458. urban areas are often warmer than the
B. False surrounding rural areas because
A. changes in surface to less reflective
454. Most immigrants settled in cities because ones
B. tall building can block wind movement
A. factory and workshop jobs were there
B. little farmland left in the Midwest C. increased airconditioner use and low
level pollution increase trapped heat
C. most immigrants came from large
cities in Europe D. All of these
D. city laws gave special rights and pro-
459. Which of the following best describes the
tection for immigrants
urban hierarchy of settlements?
455. Which terms means water mov- A. metropolis, city, town, hamlet, village
ing swiftly down toward the lowest
point/area? B. hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis
C. hamlet, city, town, metropolis, mega-
lopolis
D. village, town, hamlet, piglet, hamlet,
metropolis
460. The prohibited unfair practices of

businesses.
A. Evaporation
B. Runoff A. Big Business
C. Collection B. Child Labor

D. Precipitation C. Interstate Commerce Act
456. Saving energy and other resource with- D. Sherman Antitrust Act
out sacrificing people’s comfort
461. How was the mass production and use
A. greenways of the assembly line for products a good
B. urban growth boundaries thing?

1.1 URBANIZATION 49
466. What caused the way people lived and

where they lived to change during the In-
dustrial Revolution?

A. new machines and ways of doing
things
B. migration and immigration
A. Made it easier to own companies build C. advantages of living in urban areas
corporations
D. poor sanitation and waste disposal
B. It organized labor in the factories
C. Made products cheaper more avail- 467. A good example of a new town devel-
able oped to solve the housing shortages in
D. Made communication easier Kingston is
462. According to the study of World Health A. Portmore

Organization, among teenagers and young B. Rae Town
adults, aged 12-35 years old, around
50% are exposed to unsafe levels of C. Spanish Town
sound from
D. Port Royal
A. damaging sounds of concerts
B. transportation sounds 468. Where are slums located in Caracas?
C. daily exposure to television sound A. In the steep hillsides
D. personal audio devices B. In the desert area
463. A dangerous condition in which the body C. Along the rivers
loses its ability to cool itself through per-
spiration. D. Along the lake
A. biodiversity
469. Where does the government get infor-
B. homeostasis mation from to determine which social
C. heat stroke amenity is needed to improve the quality
D. none of above of its citizen’s life?
464. Which is [likely to be] more densely pop- A. Voting

ulated? B. Census
A. temperate climate
C. School records
B. polar climate
D. Police records
465. The problem in the developing part of
cities, such as the slums, is called 470. Because people are packed densely to-
A. suburban sprawl gether in cities, more land outside cities is
left undeveloped.
B. urban sprawl
C. urban crisis A. true
D. suburban crisis B. false

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471. How did political machines gain power? 475. What is NOT a benefit of using
A. electricity UGB(urban growth boundaries) such as
Oregon does?
B. providing favors to immigrants
A. Efficiency:less fuel and resources
C. faking elections needed to bring goods and services to
D. promising to stop immigration residents
B. More universities and research cen-
472. What is a software? ters
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A. Computer screen C. Takes up more land
B. Keyboard D. Land preservation:More land is saved
C. Computer programs for agriculture and wilderness
D. Flash drive 476. The Social Gospel movement worked to
better conditions in cities according to
473. Overcrowded city areas where immi-
grants who share the same langauge lived A. biblical ideals of charity and justice.
were called? B. the economic doctrine of laissez-faire.
A. Homesteads C. practical realities of urban poverty.
B. Factories D. the principles of social science.
C. Ethnic Ghettos 477. Spread of farming helped our population
D. Ranches to grow
A. True
474. Which is NOT a benefit of trees?
B. False
478. Regional Airports
A. site
B. situation
479. Which of these is one cause of deforesta-
tion?
A. Urbanization
B. Buying a chirstmas tree during the hol-
idays
C. Overbreeding birds in the wild
D. Cutting down the tree in your backyard
480. What were some of the social changes
A. Trees help cool the air
that occurred as a result of industrializa-
B. Trees provide a habitat for small ani- tion and urbanization?
mals
A. Stagnation in urban areas and decline
C. Trees help adsorb rain water in working class
D. Trees give off carbon dioxide so other B. Decreased social mobility and in-
plants can grow. creased social inequality

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C. No changes in family structure and

gender roles

D. The growth of cities and urban areas,
the rise of a working class, increased so-
cial mobility, changes in family structure
and gender roles, and the development of
new social classes.
A. push factor
481. The centre of main business or shopping B. pull factor
area of a town or city
A. Suburb 485. An advantage of is having the re-
sources to support and invest in new
B. Downtown ideas.
C. Countryside A. Child Labor
D. Outskirts B. Big Business
482. Which image is of an suburban area? C. Sherman Antitrust Act
D. Interstate Commerce Act
A.
486. One of the things that led to the creation
of the suburbs was this.
B. A. public transportation
B. cars
C. trains
C. D. increased property value in the city
487. Which demographic shift occurred in the

D. none of above U.S. because of industrialization?
483. Why has the population been able to A. working class people moving to the
grow so quickly in such a short period of suburbs
time? B. African Americans moving to the North
A. Doctors have developed easier and C. Northerners moving South
safer ways to have babies
D. rural residents moving to urban areas
B. People needed more help to work their
farms so they had more children 488. Which image is of a rural area?
C. Because people stayed in one place
and only moved when crowded out A.
D. Because of medical care, clean water
and better access to nutritious food
B.
484. This image represents a push factor or a
pull factor?

1.1 URBANIZATION 52
491. According to the sector model, once es-

C. tablished, the most expensive new hous-
ing is built
D. none of above
489. Homer Hoyt’s sector model is based on

what fundamental principle?
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A. on the outer edge, farther out from the
center
B. in the skyscrapers of the CBD
A. Development based on the location of C. on the inner edge of that district,
amenities closer to the center
B. Development is centered on trans- D. on outer edge of the suburban area,
portation routes farther from the center
C. Development is structured around the
CBD 492. It’s a little difficult to find the restaurant.
I propose that we all together so that no-
D. Development is based around enter- body gets lost along the way
prises such as airports
A. Is driving
490. Designed the first skyscraper
B. Drive
C. To drive
D. Driven
493. The Concentric Zone Model was created

by
A. Mark Twain A. Homer Hoyt
B. William Randolph Hearst B. EW Burgess

C. Louis Sullivan C. Harris & Ullman
D. Frederick Law Olmsted D. James Vance

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494. In 1899 many settlers rushed to Alaska 499. Typical work days in the factories were
to search for gold in hopes of getting rich. how long?

A. 8 hours
B. 4-5 hours
C. 14-16 hours
D. 15 minutes
A. push factor 500. Select all that applies:Identify PUSH fac-

tors of US immigration
B. pull factor
A. Religious Freedom
495. To avoid the diseases and illnesses, we
B. Religious Persecution
must ensure water is for all.
A. sustainable C. Political Freedom
B. managed D. Mandatory military service

C. treated E. disease/famine/war
D. none of above 501. Overcrowding in outer-parts of cities has
496. Which of the following would generally led to without basic needs or services
live in the suburbs? A. squatter settlements
A. Immigrants B. suburban developments
B. Blacks C. park areas
C. White Middle Class D. derelict CBDs
D. Poor Southern Whites
502. The tenement, was a new type of hous-
E. none of these
ing that
497. Political machines provided new city A. rose ten or more stories high.
dwellers with necessities such as jobs,
housing, and police protection in exchange B. were crowded and lacked good venti-
for lation which led to disease.
A. graft. C. provided its residents with plenty of
needed living space.
B. votes.
D. enclosed a park shared by several
C. kickbacks.
buildings.
D. wages.
503. What were the main factors that led to
498. Currently, about 10% of Earth is covered
the growth of the American population dur-
with ice year-round. If this ice melts, what
ing industrialization and urbanization?
could happen to Earth’s temperature?
A. Immigration, improved healthcare and
A. Increase
sanitation, and increased birth rates.
B. Decrease
B. Increased birth rates, decreased im-
C. Remain the Same migration, and lack of healthcare and san-
D. Not enough information itation.

1.1 URBANIZATION 54
C. Decreased birth rates, decreased im- B. emphasis on the Christianization of na-

migration, and lack of healthcare and san- tive peoples
itation.
C. emphasis on Christian principles to
D. Decreased birth rates, emigration, solve societal problems
and lack of healthcare and sanitation.
D. belief that capitalism helps the lower
504. Cities and suburbs are examples of class
what?
508. What is the % of urbanization in the UK?
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A. neighborhoods
A. 50%
B. rangeland
B. 30%
C. urban areas
C. 80%
D. rural areas
D. 90%
505. How many stories was the first
skyscraper? 509. Mayor Sally needs help building Christ-
mas town into a city, what should she do
first?
A. build more farms
B. build more roads
C. shut down the schools
D. close all factories
510. The first planned cities were located in

the Indus River Valley, they were
A. Cairo and Kabul
A. 50 stories
B. Mohenjo-Daro and Megalopolis
B. 10 stories
C. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
C. 5 stories
D. Cairo and Harappa
D. 15 stories
511. Human activities on land are known as
506. Relating to the country, country people
or life, or agriculture.
A. Land cover
A. Rural
B. Land use
B. Suburban
C. Urban sprawl
C. Urban
D. Urbanization
D. Metropolitan
512. There is no way to prevent the impacts
507. Which BEST describes the Social Gospel
of urbanization
movement?
A. True
A. belief that certain cultures will be un-
able to sustain existence B. False

1.1 URBANIZATION 55
513. What was needed for the first cities to A. zoning

develop? B. UGB

A. Farming and writing C. ecological restoration
B. politics and economics D. GIS
C. Surplus food and specialized workers
519. Per capita land consumption means the
D. Low-order settlements and surplus
food
A. amount of land a country uses as a
514. He did his best in everything he whole.
would not have been what he was
B. amount of land each person uses.
A. And
C. type of land covered by state capitals.
B. But
D. type of land people live on.
C. Otherwise
520. What was the most famous settlement
D. But that
house?
515. Which of these problems could happen
if we don’t look after the resources we
have?
A. Loss of animal homes
B. Climate change
C. Increase in pollution
A. Armstrong House
D. All of the above
B. Hull House
516. Tammany Hall was the name of a
C. York House
A. dance hall.
D. Roosevelt House
B. political machine.
521. planning how land is used in cities
C. saloon.
A. urban planning
D. theater.
B. urbanization
517. Believed wealthy Americans should use
C. urban sprawl
their wealth to help people help them-
selves. D. none of above
A. Andrew Carnegie 522. Why was steel so important? What was
B. James A. Garfield it used for?
C. Thomas Eakins
D. Booker T. Washington
518. Which of the following is a technology

that allows planners to create multiple lay-
ered maps to view many land features and
use?

1.1 URBANIZATION 56
A. Used to make artillery and weapons 527. All of the following are stores that com-
B. Cheap to import from China pete with mom and pop stores EXCEPT
A. Target
C. It came from Minnesota
B. Fridays
D. Strong. Used for bridges, railways,
nails, skyscrapers C. Wal-Mart
D. Big Ange’s Eatery
523. is when cities spread out so far that
they do not have clear edges has be- 528. The average number of people living in an
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come a major problem since the invention area
of the automobile.
A. White Flight
B. Sprawl
C. Density
D. Global Warming
524. A city consists of a collection of nodes,

around which different peoples & activi-
ties cluster. A. population distribution
A. Concentric Zone Model B. population density
B. Sector Model C. urbanization
C. Multiple Nuclei Model D. population rate
D. Galactic Model 529. An extra 44, 000 in parks and
streets help to keep air clean, provide at-
525. Slum residents in Jakarta are at risk to tractive recreational space and slow down
what environmental problem? runoff
A. earthquakes A. benches
B. flooding B. trees
C. hurricanes C. playgrounds
D. sand storms D. litter bins
526. When planning for land use, there are 530. An increase in people living or working in
multiple factors to consider. Which of cities.
these items SHOULD have the biggest in- A. Gentrification
fluence on land use decisions?
B. Urbanization
A. Current animal populations and natu-
C. Industrialization
ral qualities of the ecosystem
D. Socialization
B. Amount of pollution that might be cre-
ated 531. The growth of cities is known as
C. Safety of the citizens A. Central Place Theory
D. All answers are correct B. Urban Planning

1.1 URBANIZATION 57
C. Gentrification C. heat islands

D. Urbanization D. none of above

532. What was an example of technology that 537. Which country has the highest urban pop-
supported urbanization in the 19th century ulation in 1980?
in many cities?
A. The Telegraph
B. Electric Street-Cars
C. The automobile
D. The Blast Furnace A. Australia
533. When white property owners were for- B. Denmark
bidden from selling their property to black
C. Dominican Republic
families, a covenant was in place
D. Indonesia
A. restrictive
E. Ethiopia
B. preventive
C. holy 538. Which of the following was NOT an effect
of Urbanization?
D. redlining
A. Contaminated drinking water
534. A tall man, with a pleasantly look, as
though he spent much time out of doors B. Overcrowded living situations
A. weather-beaten C. More sewage and waste that the cities

could not handle
B. thought-provoking
D. Children could not go to school
C. well-established
D. self-motivated 539. Roof gardens, rainwater harvesting and
and unpaved tramways allow for
535. How does habitat fragmentation reduce
A. sustainable energy supplies
genetic diversity in species?
B. sustainable water supplies
A. Habitat fragmentation makes nonna-
tive species introduction possible. C. better air quality
B. Habitat fragmentation opens migra- D. better water quality
tion routes.
540. kind-hearted /�ka�nd�h��.t�d/
C. Habitat fragmentation isolates a large
population into smaller groups.
D. Habitat fragmentation encourages
open gene flow.
536. Overly rapid expansion of a city into the

surrounding countryside often results in
A. infrastructure
B. urban sprawl

1.1 URBANIZATION 58
A. kind/kind B. electricity
B. Cost savings C. telephone
C. energy saving
D. skyscrapers
D. none of above
546. “The movement of a lot of money, peo-
541. Political machines provided new city
ple or things into a place from somewhere
dwellers with necessities such as jobs,
else” is:
housing, and police protection in exchange
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for
A. kickbacks.
B. graft.
C. votes.
D. wages.
542. During the 1800s, Irish immigrants faced A. adverse

discrimination mainly because of their
B. management capacity
A. Religious beliefs
C. inflow
B. Upper-class backgrounds
C. Conservative political views D. population
D. Reluctance to learn the English lan-

547. The major factor in drawing country peo-
guage
ple off the farms and into the big cities
543. Where did more people start to migrate was the
(move) during the late 1800s? A. development of the skyscraper
A. To the country
B. availability of industrial jobs
B. To cities
C. compact nature of those large commu-
C. To islands
nities
D. Guerrilla!
D. advent of new housing structures
544. Which of the following is a principle of known as dumbbell tenements
smart growth?
A. creating neighborhoods that require 548. What makes a city sustainable?
cars to get around A. banning plastic
B. focusing development outside of exist-
ing cities B. the ability to consume more resources
than it produces
C. protecting wildlife habitats
C. the ability to continue without creating
D. building up, not spreading out
any pollution of any kind
545. What invention allowed business to ex- D. the ability to continue without deplet-
change information quickly? ing or destroying the resources that sup-
A. railroads port it

1.1 URBANIZATION 59
549. Is this rural or urban?:High population B. Natural disasters

density C. Caste system

D. Low wages
554. is the triumph of the unnatural over

the natural, the grid over the organic
A. Agriculture
B. Urbanization
C. Counter-urbanization
A. Rural
B. Urban D. Forestry
550. Some cities grew because industries 555. Cities in the late 19th century expanded
were located there. with the development of all of the follow-
ing except
A. Agricultural
A. subway.
B. Urbanized
B. skyscrapers.
C. Specialized
C. airplanes.
D. none of above
D. steel suspension bridges.
551. In Toronto, are there alcoves orregions
where immigrants of a certain group tend 556. Rural or urban?:Low ethnic and cultural
to live together? (eg. China Town, Little diversity
Italy etc.?) A. Urban
A. Yes B. Rural
B. No
557. Which country is 100% urbanized?
552. This flag belongs to A. Shanghai
B. Singapore
C. Lahore
D. Iceland
558. It’s difficult for young people to find

jobs in rural areas, so they rush to big
cities.
A. Egypt A. well-paid
B. Italy B. low-paid
C. Mexico C. unstable
D. none of above D. none of above
553. Which of the options is a push factor 559. a system designed to capture, store, ma-
linked to physical geography? nipulate, analyze, manage, and present
A. Mechanisation spatial or geographic data

1.1 URBANIZATION 60
A. Urban Growth Boundary(UGB) A. The greenhouse effect is causing most

B. Geographic Information System(GIS) of the world’s freshwater to be trapped in
the atmosphere
C. City Planning
B. Only a small fraction of the Earth’s wa-
D. Smart Growth ter is freshwater available for drinking
and irrigation
560. William M. Tweed was
A. the inventor of the electric trolley car. C. Each year, more freshwater is being
trapped in icecaps located at the North
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B. the leader of the Workingman’s Party. and South Poles
C. the designer of the first skyscraper. D. Global warming caused by greenhouse
D. the party boss of a political machine. gas emissions will likely cause Earth’s
oceans to evaporate
561. The stopped immigration by unmar-
ried Chinese workers. 565. An area outside of the city
A. Chinese Exclusion Act A. Slums
B. Chinese Stoppage Act B. Rural
C. Chinese Immigration Act C. Suburb
D. none of above D. Urban
562. Negative effects of urbanization include 566. All of the following refer to the Triangle
all the following except Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 EXCEPT:
A. disease A. After the fire new labor laws were cre-
ated for women and children.
B. pollution
C. efficiency B. 146 women burned to death when
trapped on the top three floors of a ten-
D. environmental hazards story building in New York City
563. Having more land available is an example C. Some women plunged to their deaths
of a in an attempt to escape the flames.
A. Push Factor D. the building had adequately regulated
fire escapes and plumbing.
B. Pull Factor
567. An area in which thetemperature is sever-
564. Over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is
aldegrees higher than that ofthe surround-
covered in water. So why is water consid-
ing area
ered such a precious resource?
A. Hotspot
B. City
C. Heat Island
D. none of above
568. Describe life in a tenement apartment

building
A. overcrowding

1.1 URBANIZATION 61
B. unsafe buildings B. urban

C. disease C. small town

D. all of the above D. rural
569. Situation in which a city area has fallen 573. Is this rural or urban?:dominated by hu-
into a state of disrepair through its peo- man structures such as buildings, bridges,
ple leaving the area or not having enough roads
resources to look after them.
A. Infill
B. Congestion
C. Gentrification
D. Urban Decay
570. Who was most famous for trying to ex- A. Urban

pose the horrors of living in tenements?
B. Rural
574. Many labor unions opposed immigration,

arguing that most immigrants
A. had no marketable skills.
B. would work for low wages.
C. would not join a union.
D. did not understand English.
575. All of the following are reasons for ur-

banization EXCEPT:
A. Urban areas have better healthcare
A. Boss Tweed
and educational facilities
B. Jacob Riis
B. There are more opportunities for en-
C. Andrew Johnson tertainment in urban areas
D. Lewis Hine C. Rent is more affordable in urban areas
571. Before becoming a an individual must D. There are more jobs available in urban
take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. areas
A. Philanthropist
576. What 2 factors contribute to an increase
B. Civic responsibility in sprawl?
C. Labor Union A. Population growth and per capita land
D. Naturalized citizen B. Population decrease and land increase
572. It is projected that close to 7 billion peo- C. Population staying the same and ur-
ple will live in areas in 2050. banization
A. village D. Urban and rural

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577. “The basic structure on which a transport 583. What is a rural area?
system is built and which makes it able to A. Land covered by buildings, roads, and
work” means suburbia
A. Transport infrastructures B. Land covered by all parking lots
B. Roads C. Land covered with mostly water
C. Pedestrian streets D. Land covered with forests, crops, etc
D. Infrastructures 584. Many poor people who lived in over-
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crowded cities lived in poorly kept houses
578. The urban poor living in crowded of-
called?
ten lack of utilities, healthcare services
and food. A. Tenements
A. buildings B. Skyscrapers
B. hotels C. Factories
C. residences D. Huts
D. slums 585. What is Ellis Island?

A. A place for immigrants to live and work
579. Urbanization’s impacts are never nega- in New Guinea.
tive
B. Located in New York and saw over 12
A. True million immigrants.
B. False C. Located in Virginia and allowed immi-
grants to live for free.
580. Who was the first urbanization area to
use a grid plan for their cities D. none of above
A. China 586. ....is an example of an ancient city in In-

dia that still continues to flourish.
B. Mesoamerica
A. Luxor
C. Mesopotamia
B. Harappa
D. India
C. Nile
581. Mumbai is one of the 20 cities selected D. Varanasi
as Smart Cities.
587. Why do urban areas create their own mi-
A. True
croclimates?
B. False A. Because urban areas tend to be lo-
582. Someone who moves from one country to cated in hot countries, near the equator
another with the plan to stay in the new B. Because of the rise in population of ur-
country permanently ban areas,
A. refugee C. Because tall buildings tunnel wind and
the materials used to build urban areas re-
B. immigrant
tain heat and the releases it at night.
C. homeless D. Because trees release heat and keep
D. vagrant cities warm.

1.1 URBANIZATION 63
588. What areas of the world are urbanizing C. 80

the most? D. none of above

A. Developed countries in North America
593. what is urban area
and Europe.
A. is the region surrounding a city. Most
B. Warm climate countries in South Amer-
inhabitants of urban areas have non-
ica and the Middle East.
agricultural jobs. Urban areas are very
C. Developing countries in Africa and developed, meaning there is a density of
southern Asia. human structures such as houses, com-
D. Cold climate countries in northern Eu- mercial buildings, roads, bridges, and rail-
rope and Russia. ways.
B. areas are areas which are not towns
589. which of the following is a Pull factor? or cities. They are often farming or agri-
A. Lack of Jobs cultural areas. These areas are some-
B. Better standard of living times called “the country” or “country-
side”.
C. Poor climate
594. Which of the following development ap-
D. No entertainment
proaches LEAST likely results in sprawl?
590. What are some advantages of living in A. low density single-use development
urban areas? B. high density multi-use development
A. large selection of services such as ed- C. strip mall development
ucation, health care and transportation
D. leapfrog development
B. crowding and pollution
595. Which continent has the lowest % of ur-
C. rural lifestyle
banization?
D. none of above
A. Asia
591. The US Census Bureau established a pop- B. Africa
ulation of a metropolitan statistical area C. Australia
(MSA) is
D. Europe
A. over 50, 000 in a central city and its
linked counties 596. What were some of the cultural changes
B. over 5, 000 in a central city and its that took place during this period of indus-
linked counties trialization and urbanization?
A. Decrease in consumer culture, decline
C. over 500, 000 in a central city and its
of mass media and popular entertainment,
linked counties
emergence of traditional rural lifestyles,
D. over 100, 000 in a central city and its growth of new social classes, spread of
linked counties urban values and attitudes
592. Urban areas are over % of the U.S. B. Rise of traditional rural lifestyles, de-
population. cline of consumer culture, growth of mass
media and popular entertainment, emer-
A. 60 gence of new social classes, spread of ur-
B. 70 ban values and attitudes

1.1 URBANIZATION 64
C. Increase in consumer culture, growth C. He worked in construction

of traditional rural lifestyles, decline of D. He was a cook
mass media and popular entertainment,
emergence of new social classes, spread 600. The growth of cities is:
of urban values and attitudes A. Immigration
D. Rise of consumer culture, growth of B. Urbanization
mass media and popular entertainment,
C. Depersonalization
emergence of new social classes, decline
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of traditional rural lifestyles, spread of ur- D. Materialization
ban values and attitudes 601. All of the following are effects of urban
597. The Latin American city model differs sprawl EXCEPT
from the models of American cities in that A. increased pollution
B. increased physical inactivity
C. decreased mass transit options
D. decreased land use
602. More social amenities are available in
A. small towns
B. larger towns
C. rural areas
D. cities
A. it shows different types of people live
in distinctive parts of the city. 603. A mega-city is defined as
B. it is a simplification of urban reality. A. a city with more than 10 million people
C. poorer people live on the outskirts of B. a city with more than 20 million people
the urban area. C. a city that has global influence
D. it has a gentrification zone. D. a city that receives more migrants than
loses emmigrants
598. ‘Per capita land consumption’ is not a
term that we learned but what do you 604. What did Jane Addams mean when she
think that it could mean? described public schools as “Americaniz-
A. the amount of land a country uses as a ing agencies”? Thus through civic instruc-
whole. tion in the public schools, the [immigrant]
slowly became urbanized and thus the
B. the amount of and each person uses.
habits of her entire family were modi-
C. the type of land covered by state capi- fied. The public schools deserve all the
tals. praise as Americanizing agencies which
D. the type of land people live on. can be bestowed upon them Twenty
Years at Hull House, Jane Addams
599. What did Jamal do for a living? A. Public school curriculum incorporated
A. He was a gangster multicultural studies of America.
B. He worked as an assistant in a call cen- B. American public schools provided vo-
ter cational training required for skilled labor.

1.1 URBANIZATION 65
C. Public schools helped immigrants as- 609. Which city developed because it special-
similate into mainstream American cul- ized in the steel industry?
ture.

D. Immigrants came to America in order
to attend public schools
605. Where was the famous fire in 1871?

A. Cincinnati
B. Milwaukee
C. Chicago A. New York
D. New York City B. Chicago
C. Pittsburgh
606. the spread of urban or suburban develop-
ment outward from an urban area D. Detroit
A. Zoning 610. Rapid industrial growth in and around the
B. Urbanization city leads to lack of job opportunities.
C. Sprawl A. True
D. Land use B. False
607. What is the process by which more and 611. How to you find population growth?
more people leave the countryside to live A. Birth rate + death rate
in cities?
B. Death Rate-Birth Rate
C. Death Rate + Birth Rate
D. none of above
612. One of the results of green building de-

sign is reduced
A. urban area
B. rural area
A. Urbanization C. infrastructure
B. Citization D. none of above
C. Population
613. A computerized system forstoring, ma-
D. Pollution nipulating, andviewing geographic data
608. Which caused a bigger fall in UK’s popu- A. Geospatial Data System (GDS)
lation? B. GPS
A. World War I C. Geographic Information System (GIS)
B. World War II D. Topographic Mapping System (TMS)

1.1 URBANIZATION 66
614. People who share a common descent and 618. Which one is an example of a Push Fac-
culture. tor?
A. Good Medical Health
B. good jobs
C. good education
D. Wars
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619. According to the classic bid-rent curve,
what happens to the value of land as one
gets closer to the Central Business District
A. nativists (CBD)?
B. immigrants A. Land gets used more extensively.
C. settlement house B. Land gets more expensive.
D. ethnic group C. Land gets used less intensively.
615. Human characteristics include D. Land gets more affordable along busy
A. religion streets.
B. language 620. The facilities, services, and installations
C. government needed for the functioning of a community
make up its:
D. all of the above
A. heat island
616. What is Angel Island?
B. infrastructure
A. A place for Angels to live.
C. suburbs
B. Located off Hawaii island for coloniz-
ers. D. ecosystem services
C. It is an immigration station that was 621. Which regions of the United States con-
located in San Francisco. tain some of the most fasting growing
D. none of above cities?
A. The Sunbelt (south and west)
617. migrate (v) /ma��re�t/
B. The Pacific Northwest
C. The upper Midwest
D. The Midwest
622. Industrialization began where there was
A. extend A. a sufficient supply of food

B. concentrate B. water for public use
C. migrate C. raw materials for industry
D. none of above D. all of these

1.1 URBANIZATION 67
623. A model of the internal structures of cites C. Must be having

in which social groups are arranged around D. Would be having
a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating

out from the central business district. 629. Transportation systems, communications
systems, water services, power supplies,
A. Sector Model
and schools are all examples of
B. Multiple Nuclei Model
A. infrastructure
C. Zone in Transition B. rural areas
D. Concentric Zone Model C. ecological footprints
624. The rapid, often poorly planned spread of D. land use
development from an urban area outward
630. The type of settlement that would de-
into rural areas
velop along Z and Y is
A. Suburb
B. Urban core
C. Urban sprawl
D. Urban fringe
625. Which of these played the BIGGEST

role in increased urbanization in the late
1800s? A. nucleated
A. transportation improved B. linear
B. no one was farming anymore C. dispersed
C. the military was stronger D. isolated
D. steam power was discovered
631. an agricultural country that is seeking to
626. GIS stands for become more advanced economically and
socially
A. Geographic Investigation System
A. developed country
B. Geographic Information System
B. developing country
C. General Information Security
D. Geological Investigation Staff 632. Which city developed because it special-
ized in the meat packing industry?
627. An example of a pull factor is
A. A natural disaster
B. Lack of access to education
C. Lack of resources
D. A new job opportunity
628. If we had not missed the bus, we A. Chicago

lunch at home now B. Pittsburgh
A. Would have had C. Detroit
B. Would have D. New Orleans

1.1 URBANIZATION 68
633. Which of these would BEST describe an ef- 637. The largest source of pollution in the
fect of the invention and mass production ocean comes from
of the light bulb? A. Acid rain
A. farmers worked longer hours B. Oil Spills
B. longer factory hours for all workers C. Trash
C. railroad companies expanded routes D. Runoff from fertilizer and pesticide
D. all people were put in the same time 638. Which of the following factors con-
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zone tributed to sprawl in the United States?
634. Jacob Riis exposed the horrible condi- A. more affordable automobiles
tions in New York City and wrote How the B. improved roads
Other Half Lives C. less expensive land
A. tenements D. all of the above
B. schools 639. According to the United Nations (Lien
C. factories Hiep Quoc), how many percent of the
world population will live in urban areas
D. sweatshops
in 2050?
635. The most notorious of the political ma- A. around 40
chines was in New York City. B. around 50
C. around 60
D. around 70
640. Which is a reason for the growth of
cities?
A. specialized industries
B. educational opportunities
C. no more space in the country
D. better houses
A. Hull House 641. Which city manufactured Automobiles?

A. Chicago
B. Pendergast Hall
B. Pittsburgh
C. Daly Machine
C. New England
D. Tammany Hall
D. Detroit
636. Which were the two largest cities during
642. Land cover and land use are related, and
the Gilded Age?
humans can change
A. New York A. neither.
B. Chicago B. both.
C. Boston C. land cover only.
D. The Angels D. land use only.

1.1 URBANIZATION 69
643. What is a potential disadvantage of ur-

banization?

A. improved transportation systems
B. increased pollution and crowded con-
ditions
C. access to natural water sources A. they moved goods more quickly and
D. none of above less expensively over greater distances
B. they were fun to ride on to go visit fam-
644. The first wave of immigrants included ily in other states
mostly people from
C. people could ride on railroads to get to
A. England, Ireland their jobs in another city
B. Africa D. none of above
C. Germany 649. What is the Great Migration?
D. All of the choices A. An immigration of millions of European
immigrants to cities
645. What was one of the effects of urbaniza-
B. An internal migration of African Amer-
tion?
icans from North to South
A. Unsanitary streets and living condi-
C. An internal migration of African Amer-
tions
icans from South to North
B. Increase in crime D. The movement of Americans from East
C. The rise of tenements to West
D. All of the above 650. Which one of the following is a solution
to the high demand for jobs created by the
646. Uneven development in urban areas can continuous movement of people to urban
lead to all except areas?
A. minorities segregated from majority A. Development of rural areas to limit mi-
groups in the suburbs gration
B. restrictive zoning ordinances B. Create a welfare program
C. gentrification C. Arrest immigrants
D. wealthy inner cities D. slow development of industries in ur-
ban areas
647. Urban problems in MDCs include all the
following except 651. Which of the following area on the map
is most suitable for the development of a
A. Traffic congestion urban center?
B. Collapsing infrastructure
C. Death of the CBD
D. Urban sprawl
648. Why were railroads so important during

this time?

1.1 URBANIZATION 70
A. A
B. Z
C. Y
D. None of the above
652. A philosophy of urban growththat fo-

cuses on economic andenvironmental ap-
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proaches thatlead to sustainable growth
andthe avoidance of sprawl A. extend
A. sustainable development B. migrate
C. concentrate
B. urbanization
D. none of above
C. urban planning
657. Urbanization
D. smart growth
A. Satellite city:Hitech City
653. What did NOT lead to the increase in ur- B. Shift from rural areas to cities
banization?
C. Plenty of job opportunities
A. Population decrease D. Heavily populated, poor living condi-
B. Population growth tions
C. Industrialization 658. What is patronage?

D. Moving from farming to industry A. When you get pardoned.
B. People who gave support to others
654. In the late 1800s, the most common form mainly financially.
of mass transit was the a. c. b. d.
C. Patriarchy
A. cable car. D. none of above
B. trolley.
659. I suggest that John the directions
C. horsecar. carefully before assembling the bicycle.
He doesn’t want the wheels to fall off
D. subway.
while he is riding down a hill
655. The movement of people from rural areas A. Reading
to cities is called B. To read
A. reconstruction C. Read
B. nativism D. Have read
C. urbanization 660. Which of the following has caused an in-

crease in the per capita land consumption?
D. mercantilism
A. few and poor roads
656. expand (v) /�k�spænd/ B. low urban crime rates

1.1 URBANIZATION 71
C. expensive rural land 667. Today % of humans live in Urban Ar-

D. Internet-based technologies eas.

661. was the philosophy that Americans A. 50
with a great deal of money should use it
B. 52
for social progress.
A. Social Darwinism C. 54
B. Gospel of Wealth D. 56
C. Realism
D. Marxism 668. The word ‘urban’ is derived from
662. In the early 1860s, Chinese immigrants A. Persian
came to the United States to a. b. c. d.
B. Roman
A. escape industrialization in China.
B. work in factories in Chicago. C. Greek
C. escape religious persecution. D. Latin
D. work on the transcontinental railroad.
663. Many urban areas are called metropolian 669. What is the name of the new housing
areas? development where Cabrini Green once
stood.
A. true
B. false A. Cabrini Green 2.0
664. What proportion of the world’s popula- B. Robert Taylor Homes

tion currently live in urban areas?
C. North Town Village
A. 25%
B. 45% D. Chicago Housing Complex
C. 55%
670. Resources of a fixed amount, or a re-
D. 75%
source that is used up faster than it can
665. Natural increase is a condition when- be replaced
A. death rate exceeds birth rate A. Renewable resource
B. death rate is the same as birth rate
B. Nonrenewable resource
C. birth rate exceeds death rate
D. trees grow in large numbers
671. Which is a negative effect of urban
666. Pull factor sprawl?Choose all that apply
A. things that make people want to leave A. increased housing costs
an area such as high crime, lack of educa-
tion & health services B. reduction of agricultural lands
B. things that attract people to move to C. destruction of habitats
an area such as greater employment op-
portunities D. increased costs of infrastructure

1.1 URBANIZATION 72
672. energy saving 676. 1st and 2nd class passengers on ships
were treated the same as 3rd class
A. True
B. False
677. The first permanent settlement was

A. Cairo
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B. Babylon
C. Written by Jeri
A. energy-saving /�en.�.d�i �se�.v��/
D. Boston
B. interest-free /��n.tr�st fri�/
C. kind-hearted /�ka�nd�h��.t�d/ 678. Immigrants sometimes felt when
they arrived in the United States.
D. none of above
673. The growth of cities is called
A. isolated
B. employed
A. Suburbanization C. recruited
D. important
B. Industrialization
C. Urbanization 679. Who was William “Boss” Tweed
D. none of above A. A political figure who also owned many
factories that helped immigrants get jobs.
674. Choose pull factors B. A social gospel reformer who advo-
A. Pollution cated for political and social reform.
B. Less jobs C. A factory owner who eventually tried
running for President, but lost against
C. No corruption
Teddy Roosevelt
D. No natural hazard D. A democrat in New York City that was
675. The name for an “above-ground electric considered a “political boss”
train” was 680. Urbanization is
A. trolley A. A detriment to sustaining human life
B. horse car B. A benefit to sustaining human life
C. bus C. Is complication
D. subway D. none of above

1.1 URBANIZATION 73
681. Now that there are schools for kids to at- 687. Why did many immigrants support city
tend and factories for people to work at, political machines?
what else will the city need?

A. Buildings with stores
B. Supermarkets to get food
C. Less technology
D. Public Transportation
682. What is one of the primary factors that

draw people from rural areas to urban ar-
eas
A. Political machines were free of corrup-
A. more open space tion
B. heat islands B. political machines provides them with
C. less pollution jobs
D. more jobs C. political machines put powerful
“bosses” out of business
683. Cities offer wages to workers.
D. political machines fought against
A. Lower crime in the slums
B. Higher
688. What is a suburb?
684. Why do people want to live in the sub-
urbs? A. a residential area outside a city
A. it is far from the city B. the value owned in your home
B. it is close to the city C. a community near farms
C. there are a lot of options of restau- D. none of above
rants
D. none of above 689. Urban areas function as centers of
A. employment
685. Which of the following increases water
quality? B. education
A. Greenways C. healthcare
B. Cropland D. all of these
C. Concrete
690. Many cities have developed rapidly
D. Public transit. which results in the rural-to-urban mi-
gration wave
686. Transportation improvements included
A. streetcars A. driving
B. subway B. accelerating
C. electric trolleys and elevated railways C. stimulating
D. all of the above D. opening

1.1 URBANIZATION 74
691. The Pearl, an area in close to downtown 696. Meaning of the word ‘urbanization’
San Antonio that combines residential and A. industrial
commercial use is an example of
B. discrimination
A. an outlet mall
C. toilet
B. a mixed use development D. urbanization
C. a farmer’s market
697. What is the name for a metropolitan area
D. a public land that is much warmer than its surrounding
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rural areas?
692. The growth of urban sprawl has taken
over prime agricultural real estate every-
where except
A. Middle East
B. North America
C. Asia A. Urban hot island
D. Europe B. Rural heat island
C. Suburban heat island
693. What book depicted unsafe sanitary con- D. Urban heat island
ditions in meatpacking plants?
698. The shift of a population from the coun-
A. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
tryside to cities is
B. Grapes of Wrath
A. urbanization
C. The Jungle B. infrastructure
D. Hiroshima C. land preservation
694. This person typically controlled jobs, busi- D. none of above
ness licenses, and influenced the court sys- 699. Between 1890 and 1930, over 1 million
tem. southern Blacks moved to northern cities.
A. precinct captains Between 1890 and 1930, over 1 million
southern Blacks moved to northern cities.
B. boss
A. Big Migration
C. ward lieutenant
B. Black Migration
D. city planner
C. Great Migration
695. A model of the internal structure of cities D. none of above
in which social groups are spatially ar-
700. is the physical material at the surface
ranged in a series of rings.
of the earth, include grass, asphalt, trees,
A. Concentric Zone Model bare ground, water, etc
B. Griffen-Ford Latin American City A. Land Cover
Model B. Land Use
C. Peripheral Model C. Urban Area
D. Sector Model D. Rural Area

1.1 URBANIZATION 75
701. Which is a reason for the growth of C. resulting in more tree growth.
cities?
D. expanding the use of public transporta-
A. wanting to learn about other cultures

tion.
B. better houses
707. CBD is an acronym that means
C. immigration
D. no more space in the country
702. Check all that apply:Urbanization creates

the following problem(s)
A. Traffic issues
B. Pollution
C. Poverty
A. Corporate Bureaucrat Division
D. More jobs
B. Corporate Business District
703. What is the least urbanized country, with
7%? C. Central Business Division
A. Burundi D. Central Business District
B. Papua New Guinea 708. is a human settlement with high popu-
C. Haiti lation density and infrastructure of built
D. Niger environment, created through urbaniza-
tion and are categorized as cities, towns,
704. The unplanned, uncontrolled spreading of conurbations or suburbs
urban development into areas adjoining A. Rural Area
the edge of a city is known as
B. Urban Area
A. urbanization
C. Urbanization
B. urban growth
C. population growth D. Infrastructure
D. urban sprawl 709. Future city planning hopes to solve all the
following except
705. Using our resources wisely so that future
generation can benefit from it is known as A. environmental sustainability issues
B. equity and social inclusion issues
A. globalization C. quality of life issues
B. sustainable development
D. suburban planning
C. physical development
D. good planning 710. Immigrants at Angel Island were treated
A. Great
706. Sprawl increases carbon dioxide emis-
sions by B. Poorly
A. generating more factories. C. So-so
B. increasing the need to drive. D. none of above

1.1 URBANIZATION 76
711. Which industry is located in New Eng- 715. What is an effect of gentrification?
land?
A. Low income families increase the
A. Meat-packing value of their property.
B. Textile B. Middle class white families lose value
C. Automobile on their property.
D. Steel C. Low income families are often dis-

placed and forced to move out of their
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712. Name the city model neighborhood.
D. All of the above.
716. One of the most infamous party bosses

was
A. Boss Tweed
B. Boss Hogg
C. Boss Don Corleone
A. Concentric
D. Boss Al Pacino
B. Sector
C. Urban Realms 717. A horse-car was
D. Multiple Nuclei A. a buggy that was pulled by horses
713. Which of the three models of urbaniza- B. a cart pulled by horses

tion states that a city grows along lines of C. a small train-car pulled by horses
transportation?
D. a train-car used to transport horses
A. concentric zone model
718. the process by which water on the ground
B. multiple nuclei model
surface enters the soil
C. sector model
A. Evapotranspiration
D. urban renewal model
B. Transpiration
714. The river has been with toxic waste C. Percolation
from local factories.
D. Infiltration
719. What is tenement housing?

A. wealthy, luxurious housing for the
wealthy class
B. housing built in the suburbs outside
cities for the middle class
A. deep-rooted
C. affordable, nice, clean housing for the
B. exacerbated working class
C. densely polluted D. cramped, multi-family housing units
D. relocate for the working class

1.1 URBANIZATION 77
720. Push or Pull factor?Travel times reduced. 725. The shift of population from the country-
Public transport side to a city is called

A. Push A. land use.
B. Pull B. land cover.
721. Modern urbanization shows that C. urbanization.
A. 3/4 population in MDCs and 2/5 popu- D. infrastructure.
lation in LDCs are urban
726. The Model T was
B. 2/5 population in MDCs and 3/4 popu-
lation in LDCs are urban A. the first automobile
C. 1/4 population in MDCs and 1/5 popu- B. a type of steel furnace

lation in LDCs are urban C. a locomotive
D. 1/2 population in MDCs and 3/5 popu- D. a popular Ford automobile
727. Two primary causes of spawl are popula-
722. The rate rose to 4.7 per cent because tion growth and ecological restoration
of the pandemic
A. True
B. False
728. What is one reason why modern humans

come to and stay in cities?
A. Access to building materials.
B. Jobs and other economic opportuni-
A. investment ties.
B. population C. Poverty and crime.
C. relocation D. Good land for farming.
D. unemployment 729. An area of central Nebraska that is
723. Cities have some of the most modern far from a city and consists mostly of
in the world with resources for everyone farmland and a few scattered farmhouses
to access as needed. would be considered
A. Systems
B. Facilities
C. Modernization
D. Healthcare
724. Where did former farmers move in order
to find work?
A. Rural areas A. urban
B. Great Plains B. suburban
C. Cities (urban areas) C. a heat island
D. Suburbs D. rural

1.1 URBANIZATION 78
730. Positive effects of urbanization include A. CBD creation

all the following except B. Gentrification
A. Convenience C. Zone of Transition
B. Educational opportunities
D. Zone of Better Residences
C. Inefficiency
735. Under the Pendleton Act, people would
D. employment opportunities
gain government jobs according to
731. Agricultural
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A. a quota system that balanced the num-
ber of jobs going to each party’s support-
ers.
B. the amount of money they raised for
the party’s election campaign.
C. their performance on competitive writ-
ten examinations.
A. agricultural (adj) /�æ�.r��k�l.t��r.�l/
D. how many members of Congress voted
B. cost-effective (adj) /�k�st.��fek.t�v/ in favor of hiring them.
C. down-market (adj) /�da�n�m��.k�t/ 736. What resulted from the advances in

D. none of above transportation and industry that occurred
in America between the end of the Civil
732. An example of a mail-order catalogue War and 1900?
used in the late 1800’s is A. Thousands of people migrated to the
A. Sears & Roebuck West to escape the segregated South.
B. Macy’s B. Thousands of African-Americans mi-
C. Nordstrom’s grated to the South because Reconstruc-
tion had ended.
D. Lord & Taylor
C. Thousands of people migrated from ru-
733. An accurate definition of Sustainability is ral areas to Northern cities like New York,
A. meeting population needs Chicago, and Pittsburgh.
B. meeting the needs of the present with- D. The U.S. government spent millions of
out compromising the ability of future gen- dollars to complete a canal system to link
erations to survive Northern cities to the Mississippi River.
C. meeting the needs of the future with- 737. Identify the Urban Model Pictured:
out worrying about todays
D. meeting the food needs of animals
734. This picture shows which urbanization
phenomenon:

B. Sector Model

1.1 URBANIZATION 79
C. Multiple Nuclei Model 743. A person or organization with an interest

D. Central Place Theory in a particular place or issue.

A. Stakeholder.
738. I I could give you a hand
B. Smart Growth.
A. Hope
C. Sense of Place.
B. Wish
D. Transit-Oriented Development.
C. Except
D. Think 744. A city grows in a series of rings that sur-
round the central business district.
739. Expanding business to serve more cus-
A. Nuclei Model
tomers
B. Sector Model
A. Commercialization
C. Concentric Zone Mode
B. Industrialization
D. Galactic Model
C. Urbanization
D. Central place theory 745. happening or continuing through the
whole year (compound adj)
740. Satellite cities can operate of large
cities. A. year-rounded
A. with dependence B. year-round

B. independent 746. Which issue contributed most to the need
for this permanent sanitation group?
741. a city or town
A. rate
B. decrease
C. urban area
D. element
742. This image represents a push factor of
pull factor?
A. Increased urban population
B. The passage of labor laws
C. Decreased regulation of urban rail sys-
tems
D. The establishment of immigration quo-
tas
747. Please select the correct priority for
mode of transport (from highest priority
to the lowest priority)
A. walk, bicycle, train, bus, car
B. walk, bicycle, bus, train, car
A. push factor C. bus, bicycle, walk, car
B. pull factor D. car, train, bus, bicycle, walk

1.1 URBANIZATION 80
748. ICT is widely used in a City. 754. Attending all the lectures is important
A. Mumbai us
B. Singapore A. In
C. Delhi B. With
D. India C. At
D. To
749. What is one of the goals of New York
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city’s sustainability plan 755. How did technological advancements dur-
A. Increase energy use ing this period affect the daily lives of
Americans?
B. Improve mass transit
C. Limit access to parks A. Technological advancements during
this period had no impact on the daily lives
D. none of above of Americans.
750. What was the name of the public housing B. Technological advancements during
complex on the North Side of Chicago? this period greatly affected the daily lives
of Americans.
A. Robert Taylor Homes
B. Cabrini Green C. Technological advancements during
this period only affected the daily lives of
C. Gautreaux a few Americans.
D. CHA D. Technological advancements during
this period negatively impacted the daily
751. Rapid industrial growth
lives of Americans.
A. Shift from rural areas to cities
B. plenty of job opportunities 756. Which word means related to cities?
C. heavily populated, poor living condi-

tions
D. satellite city
752. What creates heat islands in cities?

A. urban
A. too much concrete
B. too many trees B. suburban
C. people breathing C. rural
D. urban crisis D. none of above
753. Poorly built overcrowded apartment 757. Helping newcomers learn american ways
buildings were is also known as
A. settlement houses A. americanization
B. skyscrapers B. nativism
C. tenements C. assimilation
D. benevolent societies D. none of above

1.1 URBANIZATION 81
758. A sound which is not pleasing your ears 763. What is the unit that is used to measure
A. Audible sound the intensity of sound?

A. decibel
B. Music
B. frequency
C. Noise
C. Hertz
D. none of above
D. wavelength
759. The growth of urban areas into the sur-
rounding countryside. 764. “New Immigrants” predominatley came
from where?
A. Urbanisation
A. Germany
B. Urban Sprawl
B. Ireland
C. Counter urbanisation
C. Southeastern Europe
D. Commuter belt development
D. Mexico
760. What is the definition of Urbanization?
765. Which of these did NOT use steel frame
A. The increase of population in a city construction?
B. An area where many people live and A. the Flatiron Building
work B. the Statue of Liberty
C. Growth and diffusion of a city’s urban C. the Brooklyn Bridge
life and landscape
D. general stores
D. none of above
766. Tammany Hall was an example of a
761. Which of the following is an example of
A. Settlement house
a push factor?
B. Graft
C. Political Machine
D. none of above
767. Problems Caused by Urbanization in-

cluded all of the following except:
A. Overcrowding
A. religious freedom
B. Clean water
B. a drought or famine
C. Diseases
C. job opportunities
D. Crime
D. a fair government
E. All are problems caused by Urbaniza-
762. Tenement buildings were expensive lux- tion
ury homes, only rich people could afford
768. Political machines provided city dwellers
to live there
with many necessities, but many machine
A. True politicians grew rich as the result of
B. False A. graft.

1.1 URBANIZATION 82
B. industrialization. 773. Which place is said to be the world’s old-

C. investments. est city?
D. theft. A. Masdar
B. Written by Jeri
769. The Industrial Revolution caused a boost
in urbanization C. London
A. true D. Do not climb

774. What are the appropriate key phrases to
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B. false
describe these slums and squatter settle-
770. Is this rural or urban?:Dominated by nat- ments?
ural or managed features such as grass-
lands, forests, crop fields
A. Urban
B. Rural
771. Rapid urbanization usually results in A. Disorderly
A. availability of services B. Organized
B. improved standard of living C. Located on a steep slope
C. increased employment D. Densely packed
D. shortage of housing in the cities 775. Main goal of the Americanization move-
772. How did immigrants decide to settle ment was to
where they did? A. Limit the number of immigrants enter-
ing the country.
B. Assimilate people of various cultures
into the dominant culture.
C. Improve the living conditions in Amer-
ica’s largest cities.
D. Encourage people to move from the
country to the city.
A. They settled in warmer climates 776. When human populations leave the coun-
try and move to a city for a
B. They settled near water
A. push factors and pull factors
C. They settled by people of similar ethnic
backgrounds B. immigration factors
D. They settled where immigrant officials C. urbanization
sent them D. universal refugee experience

1.1 URBANIZATION 83
777. Many immigrants lived in these run- 782. Currently, the most densely populated ar-
down urban buildings. eas are in the

A. North
B. South
C. East
D. West
783. What is urbanisation?
A. Urbanisation is the process of eco-
nomic and social growth that increases
the population of a country or region.
B. Urbanisation is the process of eco-
A. cabins nomic and social change in which an in-
B. nickelodeon creasing proportion of the population of a
country or region live in urban areas.
C. apartments
C. Urbanisation is people living and work-
D. tenements ing in large cities
778. What word describes a city with over 10 D. none of above
million people?
784. Main aim of smart cities is
A. Migration A. Better school facilities
B. Urbanization B. Better infrastructure
C. Slum C. Better health facilities
D. Mega-City D. Improve standard of living of people
779. Which national region grew the most dur- 785. Wal-Mart is opening in the small town of
ing the last census? Vado, New Mexico. This is creating over
400 jobs in the area. Population is quickly
A. urban
increasing. This is an example of
B. rural A. Urbanization
780. Where did specialized industries caused B. Inflation
Americans to move to? C. Urban Center
A. Country/Rural areas D. Influence
B. Great Plains 786. Skyscrapers were built to resolve the is-
C. City/ Urban areas sue of
D. Southern towns A. Plumbing and water purification sys-
tems
781. Is this rural or urban?:Low population B. Traffic and transportation
density
C. Sanitation and trash pile up
A. Rural
D. Overcrowded populations that ran out
B. Urban of building space

1.1 URBANIZATION 84
787. Was it really necessary that I there is for these that we speak.”-William Jen-
watching you the entire time you were re- nings Bryan 9. Who was Bryan giving
hearsing for the play? It was really boring this speech for?
watching you repeat the sences over and A. New Yorkers
over again.
B. Western settlers
A. Sit
C. Desert nomads
B. Am sitting
D. Southerners
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C. Be sitting
D. To sit 793. which country has the most megacities?
A. India
788. What is a gaft?
B. Brazil
A. Form of political corruption
C. Mexico
B. A safety net
D. China
C. When people annoy you
794. All of the following are considered
D. none of above
‘World Cities’-centers of finance and trade
789. What percentage of the human popula- EXCEPT
tion lived in cities 100 years ago? A. London
A. 10% B. Chicago
B. 20% C. Tokyo
C. 40% D. New York City
D. 80%
795. there is not enough of something
790. What conditions can burning wood cause A. shortage
A. Death B. urban
B. School C. dramatically
C. Lung Cancer D. rate
D. STOP POLLUTING
796. The concentric zone model and sector
791. An urban area with a population of over model were both based on which city?
10 million that is continually growing is a A. Chicago
A. City B. London
B. Mega City C. New York City
C. Edge City D. Philidelphia
D. Commercial Zone 797. How did the development of transporta-
792. “ We say not one word against tion systems influence the American popu-
those who live on the Atlantic coast, but lation and lifestyles during this time?
the hardy pioneers who have braved all A. Transportation systems had no impact
ofthe dangers of the wilderness, who have on the American population and lifestyles
made the desert blossom as the rose it during this time.

1.1 URBANIZATION 85
B. Transportation systems influenced the 802. Sprawl increases carbon dioxide emis-
American population and lifestyles by en- sions by
abling easier travel, promoting economic

A. generating more factories.
development, and facilitating cultural ex-
change. B. increasing the need to drive.
C. Transportation systems caused a de- C. resulting in more tree growth.

cline in economic development and cul- D. expanding the use of public transporta-
tural exchange in America. tion.
D. Transportation systems only benefited 803. what is the formula for population den-
a small portion of the American population sity?
and had no impact on lifestyles.
A. population divided by births
798. These two factors are required to consti- B. population take away housing
tute “urbanization”
C. births multiplied by deaths
A. Counterurbanization occurs
D. population divided by kilometers
B. # of people and % of people decrease squared
in cities
804. All of the following are reasons for ur-
C. # of people and % of people increase banization EXCEPT:
in cities
A. Rent is more affordable in urban ar-
D. The building of skyscrapers in smaller eas.
communities
B. Urban areas have better healthcare
799. Why did people move to the cities during and educational facilities.
the Industrial revolution? C. There are more jobs available in urban
A. Jobs in factories areas.
B. Jobs on the farm D. There are more opportunities for en-

tertainment in urban areas.
C. Family
805. This is the rapid, often poorly planned
D. Friends
spread of development from an urban area
800. Sustainability is making sure that the outward into rural areas
planet and its resources can continue to
provide life.
A. True
B. False
801. Victorian morality applied to which two

classes?
A. Upper Class A. urban sprawl
B. Middle Class (white collar) B. metropolitan area
C. Working Class (blue collar) C. rural fringe
D. none of above D. whooping cough

1.1 URBANIZATION 86
806. What is a “heat island”? B. to keep people out of the areas

C. to preserve and protect these areas
for future generations
D. to prevent forest fires
811. The main goal of Hull House was to

A. provide jobs for wealthy women
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A. an island with a high temperature B. pass the Tenement House Act of 1901
B. an area in which the temperature is C. help poor immigrants
several degrees higher than that of the D. oppose the Chinese Exclusion Act
surrounding area
812. The downward movement of water
C. passive waste export through soil and rock due to gravity.
D. causes more rain and collected pollu- A. Infiltration
tion (smog) over cities
B. Surface runoff
807. Which of the following terms describes a C. Percolation
city and its surrounding settlements?
D. Sheet erosion
A. megalopolis
B. metropolitan area 813. If he , he that food Luckily he was
sent to the hospital immediately
C. industrialization
A. Was warned/ would not take
D. none of above
B. Had been warned/would not have
808. What is on reason people move from ru- taken
ral areas to urban area? C. Would be warned/had not taken
A. less pollution D. Would have been warned/ had not
B. more jobs taken
C. more open space 814. What does ‘urbanization mean’?
D. none of above A. the process by which more and more
people leave the countryside to live in
809. The rapid increase in the money supply
cities
without an increase in the number of goods
for sale caused , or the decline in the B. process of becoming more like a city
value of money C. both A and B
A. Gold D. none of above
B. Silverites
815. Trees, grass, crops, wetlands, water,
C. Deflation buildings and pavement are
D. Inflation A. land use
810. What is the job of the National Park Ser- B. land cover
vice? C. urban areas
A. to maintain the areas D. none of above

1.1 URBANIZATION 87
816. Tammany Hall was controlled by 822. Less babies being born & social isolation
A. Republicans are both social impacts of urbanization

A. True
B. Mugwumps
B. False
C. Democrats
D. Know Nothings 823. the process by which cities grow or by
which societies become more urban
817. Choose push factors A. Urban area
A. Pollution B. Smart Growth
B. Less jobs C. Urban Growth Boundary(UGB)
C. No corruption D. Urbanization
D. No natural hazard 824. the breaking of habitats into smaller
818. This type of pollution inhibits people from pieces is called
seeing the stars and planets. A. habitat division
A. Light Pollution B. habitat pollution
B. Water Pollutilon C. habitat corruption
C. Air Pollution D. habitat fragmentation
D. Land pollution 825. Casteism and racism is still a reason why
people choose to migrate. True or false?
819. Interstate Commerce Act of 1886
A. False
A. re-established the right of federal Gov-
B. True
ernment to supervise railroad activities
B. states handle interstate commerce 826. What is it called when plants release wa-
ter vapor through their leaves?
C. system of laws for streetcars
A. sublimation
D. regulates electricity to homes
B. respiration
820. Though has led to problems, cities are C. transpiration
centers of civilization and culture.
D. precipitation
A. improving population
827. Negative effect on woodland, wetlands,
B. improving urbanization
and wildlife may occur
C. increasing urbanization A. with smart growth
D. decreasing urbanization B. with development of land
821. The concentration of settlements isre- 828. What allowed cities to build up and have
lated to following major factor many skyscrapers?
A. Proximity the to Sea A. really tall ladders
B. Plain region B. lots of glass and chrome
C. Availability of water C. cheap steel and the elevator
D. climate D. subway

1.1 URBANIZATION 88
829. If you want to keep your house cool all C. can cause health effects such as hy-
year, should you design the house roof to pertension, high stress, hearing loss,
have a high or a low albedo? sleep disturbances
A. High D. can cause health effects such
B. Low as:cancer, sleep disturbances
830. ‘upmarket’ is 835. Identify the Urban Model that is de-

A. worth pondering scribed:This model doesn’t have a specific
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location for each zone.
B. on a global scale
C. luxury, expensive
D. waste of time B. Sector Model
831. and were the two megacities in
1950. D. Central Place Theory
A. New York and London
836. Mostly developed landcovered mainly
B. Delhi and Mumbai withbuildings and roads that hasa human
C. Mexico city and sao Paulo population of 2500or more
D. London and Paris A. Rural
832. Which President signed a bill to help vet- B. Urban
erans get more affordable housing?
C. Rangeland
A. FDR
D. Farmland
B. Eisenhower
C. Truman 837. One of the most famous political ma-
D. Bush chines in NYC was led by
833. Slums are usually located on land not

owned by the slum dwellers.
A. True
B. False
834. What is true about light pollution?
A. Boss Springsteen
B. Boss Tweed
A. brightening of the night sky caused by
artificial lights C. Boss Smith
B. harmful or annoying levels of noise D. Boss Deed

1.1 URBANIZATION 89
838. Boss Tweed gained power by 841. Information collected for a purpose; for
example, names and addresses.

A. data
B. software
C. hardware
D. none of above
842. A streetlight is an example of what type

of pollution
A. Light
A. using the political machine to get jobs B. Noise
and housing for immigrants.
C. Water
B. giving free medical care to workers in-
jured at dangerous factory jobs. D. Air
C. founding the Transcontinental Rail- 843. How did settlement houses help immi-
road. grants?
D. starting up the successful meatpack- A. help them settle arguments with neigh-
ing industry. bors
839. Limits the power of the federal govern- B. gave the homeless a free place to
ment by separation of powers and checks sleep
balances. C. convinced the government to let them
settle in the West
D. provided services to help combat
poverty
844. We are not living as long as we used to

do.
A. True
A. Declaration of Independence B. False
B. Principles of the Constitution (govern- 845. Social requirements for a city include all
ment) except
C. Bill of Rights A. Large size(can not relate to everyone)
D. Civic Responsibilities B. High density
840. Which world-class city is the best exam- C. Social homogeneity (same types of
ple of an entrepot? people)
A. Shanghai D. Economic diversity
B. Dubai 846. Slums that are made up of Shacks are
C. Singapore called
D. Madrid A. Urban Areas

1.1 URBANIZATION 90
B. Shanty towns 852. ICT stands for

C. Rural Areas
D. none of above
847. Which urban area grew the fastest over

the last decade?
A. NYC
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B. THE
C. Charlotte NC A. Institute of Chemical Technology
D. Washington D.C>
B. Information and Communications
848. An attempt to design cities so as to max- Technology
imize their functionality and beauty is
853. Four-fifths of the world’s computers use
A. city planning.
programs English
B. sprawl.
A. At
C. urbanization.
D. ecological restoration. B. In
C. On
849. What is another word for rural areas?
A. suburb D. About
B. slum
854. What does this image say about the con-
C. city trol of political bosses?
D. countryside
850. How do new forms of commuting trans-

form cities?
A. commuting allows suburbs to develop
outside cities
B. commuting allows for the middle class
to live in city centers
C. commuting became the biggest source
of pollution
D. commuting allows more immigrants to
move into cities A. political bosses wanted to squish the
851. To build the Subway, about workers opportunities in New York
were used. B. political bosses control all of New York
A. 1, 000 City
B. 5, 000 C. Political bosses were showing their ap-
C. 10, 000 proval with a “thumbs up” image
D. 30, 000 D. none of above

1.1 URBANIZATION 91
855. Urban sprawl 859. Proximity to markets

A. is when cities spread out using up sur- A. Site

rounding land.
B. Situation
B. puts a strain on existing infrastruc-
tures. 860. urban sprawl is bad because it
C. creates an increase in pollution. A. wastes land
D. all of these. B. is expensive
856. The suburbs are a place that C. is cheap
A. is good for families to live, there are D. increases agriculture
houses with yards.
861. The quota system, established as part of
B. is good if you want to live in an apart- United States’ immigration policy in the
ment 1920s, was mainly designed to
C. is good if you want to grow your own
A. Limit the number of immigrants from
food
certain nations
D. is bad for everyone
B. Increase the total number of immi-
857. What was the name of the first grants
skyscraper? C. Allow an equal number of immigrants
from every country
D. Attract skilled workers and business
investors
862. Members of the machines rallied to

vote for them by offering services such as
jobs, housing, etc.
A. Trump Tower
B. Home Insurance Building
C. Flat Iron Building
D. Willis Tower
858. The influx of urban workers helped boom

industry & modernize cities and led to
A. Immigrants
healthy working and living conditions for
immigrants. B. rural workers
A. True C. African Americans
B. False D. Chinese

1.1 URBANIZATION 92
863. Movement of people from one country to B. The Renaissance

another. C. The Industrial Revolution
A. Industrialization
D. none of above
B. Isolation
870. How did the shift from rural to urban ar-
C. Immigration
eas impact the lifestyles of Americans?
D. Urbanization
A. The shift from rural to urban areas re-
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864. Identify the importance of studying sus- sulted in a decrease in population and eco-
tainable cities nomic growth for Americans.
A. Improving the quality of life B. The shift from rural to urban areas im-
B. Organizing street networks pacted the lifestyles of Americans by lead-
ing to increased industrialization, urban-
C. Upgrading social life ization, and modernization.
D. Energy saving C. The shift from rural to urban areas had
865. How is natural gas transported from its no impact on the lifestyles of Americans.
source to your home? D. The shift from rural to urban areas led
A. by trucks to a decrease in industrialization, urban-
ization, and modernization.
B. by ships
C. by railroad tanker cars 871. Chinese Exclusion Act
D. by pipelines A. People making Chinese immigrants
food.
866. looking old and damaged through spend-
B. Support for Chinese
ing a lot of time outside (compound adj)
A. weather-beaten C. Prohibiting all immigration of Chinese
laborers.
B. weather-beat
D. none of above
867. The cost of living in Los Angeles is lower
than the cost of living in Iowa. 872. Based on the information in this graph,
why did immigration increase rapidly be-
A. True
tween 1895 and 1905?
B. False
868. According to the sector model, the best

housing in Chicago is found where?
A. Along the Chicago River
B. The south side of Chicago
C. Along Lake Michigan
D. By manufacturing and industry
A. Railroad construction created jobs for
869. What major historical event influenced immigrants.
the shift from rural to urban living? B. Cheap land prices in the West at-
A. The Agricultural Revolution tracted immigrant farmers.

1.1 URBANIZATION 93
C. Industrial growth provided factory 879. Metropolises have at least

jobs for immigrants.
A. 5, 000

D. World War I caused immigrants to flee
Europe. B. 50, 000
873. A person who enters a new country with C. 500, 000

the intent of settling there permanently is D. 50, 000, 000
an
A. immigrant 880. What was one of the first complaints
B. emigrant about the newly built NYC subway?
874. Politicians practice of rewarding their po- A. the stations were too dirty
litical supporters, family, and friends with B. the trains were slow
government jobs was known as
C. the trains were too crowded
A. patronage
B. the spoils system D. the tracks had rats
C. both patronage and the spoils system
881. Development in which businesses are ar-
D. Trump-like ranged in a long roadway with no main
875. A period of time when products go from community is
home-made to machine made in factories. A. sparse street development
A. agriculture
B. uncentered commercial strip develop-
B. industrialization ment
C. mathamatics C. scattered, or leap frog development
D. environmentalism
D. low-density single use residential de-
876. One way that city planners put their development
cisions into practice is:
A. ecological restoration 882. The Marble Palace was
B. zoning A. a nickname for a subway station in
C. urbanization lower Manhattan
D. sprawl B. the world´s first skyscraper
877. Whether urbanization has positive ef- C. a general store in Manhattan
fects or not?
D. NYC´s first department store
A. Yes
B. No 883. The New York City Subway opened in
878. Infrastructure is made up of the facilities, A. 1890
services, and installations needed for the
B. 1904
functioning of a community.
A. true C. 1918
B. false D. 1939

1.1 URBANIZATION 94
884. What type of wildlife corridor would 889. How does water leave a plant or tree?
be most effective for animals like frogs, A. The roots get rid of excess water.
toads, and turtles in helping them cross
highway barriers? B. Most plants DO store water.
A. a high suspension bridge going over C. It is released from the leaves by TRAN-
the road SPIRATION.
B. a wide overpass going over the road D. none of above
C. a tunnel (culvert) going under the road
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890. is defined as the process of change
D. a rope bridge going across the road from rural to urban aur growth of a small
urban settlements into big cities within a
885. Which group opposed immigration during country
the Gilded Age?
A. Urbanization
A. Ranchers
B. Permanent settlements
B. Farmers
C. Industrial revolution
C. Big Business Leaders
D. Nativists D. none of above
886. Identify the Urban Model that is de- 891. Why have megacities grown so rapidly?
scribed:The low class residential land is A. People have moved from rural areas to
found near transport routes while the high urban centers for jobs
class residential the furthest away.
B. The availability of better housing
C. The desire for more political freedom
B. Sector Model
D. Availability of better health care &
C. Multiple Nuclei Model safer communities
892. This is the unrestricted growth of hous-
887. Which of the following was a reason that ing, commercial developments, and roads
people feared the Chinese immigrants and over large expanses of land, with little
eventually led to the Chinese Exclusion concern for city planning.
Act?
A. Central Place Theory
A. they would not assimilate into Ameri-
B. Muffin-top syndrome
can culture
B. they cooked better food C. Urban sprawl
C. they spoke a different language D. Low-order settlements

D. none of above 893. Which of the following best characterizes
the Gilded Age?
888. Which is NOT a reason people move to
cities after high school? A. The discovery of goldfields in the West
led to an increase in the amount of money
A. Jobs
issued for circulation.
B. Higher education
B. Industrialists used their connections
C. Peaceful surroundings with corrupt government officials for ma-
D. Culture terial gain and political power.

1.1 URBANIZATION 95
C. In the Deep South a sharp increase in D. converting the world’s high-quality en-
immigration brought a boom in construc- ergy resources to low-quality heat
tion and industry.

899. What is another name for a city?
D. Small, family-owned farms were
bought and consolidated to form large
agricultural corporations.
894. America is known as the
A. tepid tub
B. big cauldron
A. rural area
C. melting pot
B. urban area
D. none of above
C. suburban area
895. How did the Industrial Revolution affect D. none of above
the cities?
A. Made the crime rate decrease 900. There are two types of settlements
B. Led to an increase in farm workers A. Compact, Radial
C. Make the cities cleaner and safer B. Scattered, Circular
D. Led to an increase in population in the C. Urban, Rural
cities D. Cultural, Mining
896. The shift of a population from the coun- 901. Community Planners are involved in ac-
tryside to cities is called tivities such
A. land preservation A. Figuring out locations of shopping cen-
B. infrastructure ters
C. urbanization B. Designing community parks
D. an ecological footprint C. Planning locations for gas stations

D. All of the above
897. communities that surround urban areas
A. urban 902. More than 4 billion people live in ar-
eas globally.
B. suburban
C. rural
D. none of above
898. A sustainable society would emphasize
A. maintaining the current rates of en-

ergy flow and resource use
A. urban
B. using energy efficiently and reusing
and recycling matter B. rural
C. recycling both matter and high-quality C. country
energy D. none of above

1.1 URBANIZATION 96
903. The move to cities led to what major and C. Something that attracts people to
enduring change in American lifestyles? cities
A. Delayed marriages D. something that forces people from
B. Fragmented family life their homes
C. More waste and the need for waste 907. These neighborhoods in cities were run-
disposal down, and many contained mostly immi-
D. An emphasis on thrift grant populations.
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904. In Portland, the legal border that sepa-
rates urban land from rural land is called
A. suburbs
B. tenements
A. a mixed-use development. C. slums
B. an urban growth boundary. D. Gold Coast
C. the Official Plan.
908. Which is the best definition for “Green
D. MARTA. Roof?”
905. What is NOT an impact of sprawl? A. A green colored roof
A. Transportation:little to no public trans- B. An ecologically friendly roof
portation
C. A roof top covered by vegetation
B. Decreased pollution because of de-
creased driving D. An place where kids can play in an ur-
ban area
C. Land use:Less land left as open space
D. Economics:Wealth in suburbs, and ur- 909. Which of the following is NOT a problem
ban areas more poor caused by rapid urbanization?
A. heat island effect
906. what is a pull factor?
B. growth of squatter settlements
A. Something that drives people away
from cities C. outbreak of disease due to high levels
of air, water and land pollution
B. Something that is interesting for city
dwellers D. higher labour supply in cities

1.1 URBANIZATION 97
910. Higher income people tend to live near B. slum

the CBD in all but which of the following C. house
regions?

D. castle
A. Latin America
B. North America 915. It’s important that he to take her
medicine twice a day
C. South Asia
A. Remember
D. Western Europe
B. Remembering
911. Claudia lives in Germany, but an usual C. To remember
tornado has just devastated the land and
destroyed her home. This is an example of D. Remembered
a 916. People in the urban areas have less ac-
A. Push factor cess to health, educational, cultural and so-
B. Pull factor cial services than in rural areas.
A. True
912. An experience shared by most “new im-
migrants” in the 1890s was that they B. False
A. met with some local hostility 917. This is the term for below-deck quarters
B. settled in farm areas where cheap for low-paying passengers on ships.
land was available
C. rapidly became part of the majority
lifestyle
D. enrolled in American universities to
get an education
913. It is the population shift from rural to ur-

ban areas. A. economy
A. Industrialization B. steerage
B. Urbanization C. bridge
C. Both a) and b ) D. tenements
D. None of these 918. concentrate (v)
914. Just under 1-in-3 people in urban areas
globally live in a household.
A. centralize /�sen.tr�.la�z/
B. centralization /�sen.tr�.la�.�ze�.��n/
A. cottage

1.1 URBANIZATION 98
C. central /�sen.tr�l/
D. none of above
919. One of the greatest lures of the city for

immigrants was
A. abundant high-standard housing
B. factory jobs
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A. “Under the law of competition, the
C. advertising
employer of thousands is forced into the
D. lack of discrimination strictest economies, and often there
is friction between the employer and the
920. Individualism was the belief that employed.”
A. it is important to do things for other B. “The price which society pays for the
people. law of competition, like the price it pays
for cheap comforts and luxuries, is
B. a person can rise as far as their talents great.”
will take them.
C. “The best means of benefiting the com-
C. other people’s opinions are not impor- munity is to place within its reach the lad-
tant. ders upon which the aspiring can rise.”
D. happiness comes from personal satis- D. “This, then, is the duty of the man
faction. of wealth:To set an example of modest, un-
ostentatious living, shunning display or ex-
921. The cost of living in the United States travagance.”
along the Atlantic Coast in the northeast-
ern part of the country is high compared to 924. Which of the following was a challenge
the midwest. faced by cities after the Civil War?
A. Immigration continued to decrease in
A. True
cities.
B. False B. The pace of urbanization slowed down.
922. What is the Gentlemen’s Agreement? C. Movement to rural areas increased

over time.
A. When two men fight each other be-
D. Overcrowded tenements and ghettos
cause of an agreement.
existed.
B. An agreement made between a man
and a woman. 925. What is an example of an edge city?
A. Schaumburg
C. An agreement made between the U.S.
and Japan. B. Arlington Heights
D. none of above C. Chicago

D. Boston
923. Which Andrew Carnegie quotation best
explains why he funded libraries like the 926. what is not factor of urban sprawl?
one in this photograph? A. Auto dependency

1.1 URBANIZATION 99
B. single use C. more employment which leads to em-

C. high density bezzlement

D. unemployment
D. low density
932. What is the most common factor of
927. In the 1890 the Populists formed the Peo-
megacities?
ple’s Party and supported
A. Located in developing countries
A. The plan where farmers could store
crops in warehouses to force prices up B. Have infrastructure issues
B. Limited govt regulations for the rr com- C. Losing popularity
panies D. are located in Australia
C. the election of senators by state legis- 933. The United States government encour-
latures aged the use of cars as transportation in
D. the free coinage of gold part by
A. building interstate highways
928. The electronic made urban travel
cheap efficient and promoted outward B. charging high gasoline taxes
spread of cities C. tax credits for automobile owners
A. streetcars D. constructing mass public transporta-
B. type writers tion like subways and trains
C. railroad 934. Which one of these is not a mega city in
D. boats an LIC or NIC?
A. Mexico City
929. Where did working class people residing
in the cities usually live? a. c. b. d. B. New York
A. streetcar suburbs C. Mumbai

D. Lagos
B. tenements
C. fashionable downtown district 935. How does the expansion of urban devel-
opment into rural areas affect natural pop-
D. away from the central city
ulations in the environment?
930. What is not one of the negative effects A. Resources available to the natural pop-
that urban sprawl can lead to? ulations will decrease.
A. crowded schools B. The biodiversity of the natural popula-
B. loss of biodiversity tions will increase.
C. The amount of area available to pro-
C. loss of natural light
ducers will increase.
D. residential segregation
D. Death rates of the natural populations
931. Crime is a major problem in urban areas. will decrease.
It usually caused by
936. Which form of transportation uses the
A. less policing most energy per passenger-mile?
B. extension of the school leaving period A. commuter rail

1.1 URBANIZATION 100
B. automobile 941. A life that is almost always very busy or

C. bus chaotic
D. heavy rail A. The hectic pace of life
937. What is an area that surrounds a city and B. The harmonious pace of life
usually consists of residential & commer-
cial zones?
942. The spread of low-density development
A. Suburb
outward from an urban area is called
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B. Megalopolis
C. Industrial Zoning A. greenways
D. Urban Area B. ecological restoration
938. Which is NOT a method of controlling C. infrastructure
runoff?
A. Combined sewer system D. none of above
B. Trees
C. Rain garden 943. Sprawling development has led to in-
creased obesity and high blood pressure.
D. Green roof
A. true
939. Who invented the 1st practical light bulb?
B. false
944. . In 1892, the United States government

opened Ellis Island and Angel Island mostly
to
A. Defend New York City from attack
A. George Washington Carver B. Serve as the first federal prison in New

B. Henry Ford York State
C. Thomas Edison C. Process immigrants arriving from
D. Eli Whitney overseas
940. Name the city model. D. Check the safety of imported products
945. What event created the modern city as

we know of it today?
A. The Agricultural Revolution

A. Concentric B. The American Revolution
B. Sector
C. The French Revolution
C. Multiple Nuclei
D. Urban Realms D. The Industrial Revolution

946. The most famous political machine was A. DNA innovation

Tammany Hall in New York lead by- B. Technological innovation

C. Computer innovation
D. Digital innovation
950. modern, having or including the most re-

cent information
A. up-to-date
B. upto-date
951. A positive impact of urbanisation is-

A. Congested settlements to provide
homes for all.
A. Bill the Butcher B. Ample employment opportunities in
B. Andrew Carnegie various fields.
C. William “Boss” Tweed C. Ground water is polluted with domes-

tic waste.
D. John D Rockefeller
D. Many industries and hotels dumping
947. What is smog? waste into river, lakes and other water
A. a type of fog with no pollution bodies.
B. naturally occurring fog mixed with 952. In a bid to reduce , many councils are
smoke and pollution turning to green housing projects
C. a term for clear air in urban areas A. pollution
D. none of above B. carbon emissions
948. Sustainability objectives have several im- C. dusts

plication for transport planning such as D. carbon footprints
A. waste water quality, waste water man- 953. This phase of urban expansion was
agement and water water treatment marked by the growth of river val-
B. seismic design, structure simula- ley civilizations due to the Agricultural
tion, reinforced masonry structures, re- Revolution-approximately 5, 000 to 7,
inforced concrete structures and pre- 000 years ago.
stressed structures A. 3rd Phase
C. transportation decision making, auto- B. 2nd Phase
mobile dependency, transportation equity,
community live ability and land use. C. 1st Phase
D. road safety audit, traffic control, traf- D. 4th Phase

fic safety, route assignment and traffic 954. The agriculture has radically transformed
congestion how the vast majority of food is produced
949. helps urban planners increase effi- since took place.
ciency in high density areas. A. industrialization

B. industrialist C. administrative
C. industrialism D. political
D. industrialize
960. What major population demographic
955. During the Industrial Revolution children change did American cities experience be-
made double the amount of what adults tween 1880 and 1900?
made
A. The population shifted from urban to
A. True rural
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B. False B. Most of the population moved to sub-
urbs
956. In which of the following categories of
land cover would you most likely expectto C. The population shifted from rural to ur-
find the highest human population? ban
A. Rural Area D. Cities became technologically ad-
B. Urban Area vanced
C. Suburban Area
961. To adjust to a new life immigrants
D. Heat Island
A. didn’t learn to speak English and spoke
957. The world’s population is expected to their native language
reach 7 billion by 2025. B. moved into neighborhoods with people
A. True from different countries
B. False C. moved into neighborhoods with others
from the same country
958. By 2050 it is projected that more than
of the world population will live in ur- D. wanted to go back to their home coun-
ban areas. tries
962. Removing trees so that native prairie

grasses can grow again is an example of
A. ecological restoration
B. zoning
C. green building
A. one third D. greenways
B. two thirds 963. Biodegradable pollutants are materials,

C. one quarter such as , that rapidly decompose by
natural processes.
D. two quarters
A. water waste
959. Which of the following is NOT a function
of settlements? B. toxic emissions
A. ports C. solid waste
B. commercial D. chemical plants

964. Rapid urbanization has caused which of 968. What is the main use of ICT in a smart
the following to take place? City

A. Increase the livelihood of slum A. Providing housing for
dwellers B. They are generally surrounded by
B. Decrease in pollution green belt
C. Decrease in Population C. To improve contact between people
and the government
D. Increase in the number of slums
D. Boost local economy
965. How do people try to preserve a sense
of community in cities? 969. Fill in the blank:The of traffic.
A. through gentrification A. volume
B. by creating ghettos B. amount
C. by creating edge cities C. number
D. by creating ethnic neighborhoods D. total
966. Who was the architect who built the first 970. Which type of area would Miami, Florida,
skyscraper? be considered?
A. urban
B. rural
C. country
D. suburban
971. The opposite of Urban is Rural. State

True or False
A. True
B. False
972. What is the population of the world lives

in urban areas?
A. Frank Lloyd Wright A. 25%
B. Daniel Burnham B. less than 50%
C. William LeBaron Jenney C. more than 50%
D. Doanld Trump D. 75%
967. The inventions of the and led to 973. The central city is found to have three cen-
more workplace opportunities for women tral business districts (CBDs)
A. telephone A. Concentric Zone Model
B. type writer B. Multiple Nuclei Model
C. steam engine C. Sub-Saharan Model
D. automobile D. Galactic Model

974. When people immigrated from Europe, A. relocations

where did they go in America? B. urbanization process
A. West Coast C. urbanization process
B. Up North
D. basic amenities
C. East Coast
980. The countries which are facing the begin-
D. Down South
ning of industrialization are called
975. What was the result of the industrial
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A. Developed Countries
growth during the late 1800’s?
B. DevelopingCountries
A. Immigration to Mexico
C. Less Developed Countries
B. Agricultural economies
D. None of these
C. Urbanization
D. none of above 981. The guard at the gate insisted that every-
body the rules
976. Choose the correct answer:The film had
a message A. Obeys
A. weather-beaten B. Obey
B. thought-provoking C. Will obey
C. well-established D. Would obey
D. upmarket 982. When the middle class fixes up a neigh-
borhood, we call it this.
977. True/false:In 1890, 4/5 of the people in
NYC are immigrants A. blockbusting
A. true B. redlining
B. false C. gentrification
978. Which of the following factors con- D. white flight
tributed to sprawl in the United States?
983. What was a bad thing about political ma-
A. more affordable automobiles chines?
B. improved roads A. used too much electricity
C. less expensive land B. made immigrants leave the city
D. all of the above C. they were corrupt
979. Many of the houses lacked even D. they burned down factories
984. By calling their era from 1870-1900 the

“Gilded Age, “ authors Mark Twain and
Charles Warner were
A. praising industrial advances.
B. warning against realism.
C. criticizing corruption
D. pleading for individualism.

985. Americans offered growing support for a 990. How did the Industrial Revolution impact
free public education system where people lived?

A. to combat the growing strength of A. It prompted many to leave farms and
Catholic parochial schools move to towns and cities for factory work.
B. when the Chautauqua movement be- B. It led to a migration back to rural ar-
gan to decline eas.
C. because they accepted the idea that a C. It caused people to move from urban
free government cannot function without areas to suburban areas.
educated citizens
D. none of above
D. when private schools began to fold
991. Urbanization means that people are mov-
986. which is a property of smart growth? ing
A. Sprawling out A. from rural areas to urban areas
B. Utilizing more land B. from urban areas to rural areas
C. More pollution
992. New immigrants typically became
D. Growing up not out
A. Farmers
987. How are people spread out on the earth’s
B. Shopkeepers
surface?
C. Unskilled workers
D. none of above
993. This phase came during the Industrial

Revolution in Europe beginning in the mid-
dle of the 18th century and was marked
by rural-urban migration by people look-
ing for jobs.
A. evenly
A. Phase 3
B. unevenly
B. Phase 1
988. What are green belts?
C. Phase 2
A. A stop to development
D. Phase 4
B. An area where development is re-
stricted 994. Which of the following would be factors
C. The restriction of development of farm- for beginning a city in a certain place?
lands around cities A. Access to food, fresh water, good
D. A way to conserve wildlife farmland, and trade.
B. Access to food, money, and hunting
989. Many early tenements were shaped like
materials.
A. pyramids
C. Access to fresh water, religious sites,
B. kettle-balls and electricity.
C. dumbbells D. Access to money, food, gold, and salt-
D. castles water.

995. Why do cities exist?

A. Because they ‘centralize’ a large
amount of employment and industry in
one place
B. Because they ‘centralize’ a lot of com- A. By absorbing the sun’s energy
mercial centers in one place B. By providing shade
C. Because they ‘centralize’ a lot of hous- C. By forcing evaporation of water
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ing in one place
D. By reflecting most of the sun’s energy
D. Because they are located near an im-
portant resource (such as a body of wa- 1001. True/False:The number of Megacities is
ter) expected to continue to grow.
A. False
E. All of the above.
B. True
996. Which is more likely to experience urban-
1002. What are the top 5 most populated
ization?
countries?
A. MDC’s
A. Japan, England, China, USA, Canada
B. LDC’s B. Australia, Tokyo, Brazil, India, Russia
997. Parks and green spaces help reduce: C. China, India, United States, Indonesia,
Pakistan
A. nitrogen
D. none of above
B. runoff
1003. Where were most immigrants from?
C. landfills
A. Italy
D. mining
B. Slavic Countries
998. A measurement of population per unit C. Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico
area. D. Europe
A. Census
1004. Detailed maps showing the locations of
B. Population Density sewer lines, roads, and parks are possible
C. Demographics with
D. Migration A. GPN.
B. TOPO.
999. An area prone to landslides would be an C. GIS.
example of
D. none of above
A. rangeland
1005. The sound level which is comfortable for
B. open space.
the human ear.
C. marginal land. A. 80-85 decibels
D. none of above B. 120-125 decibels
1000. How do asphalt and concrete contribute C. 60-65 decibels
to urban heat island effects? D. 100-105 decibels

1006. Is Logan urban or rural? C. companies

D. facilities

1011. This map represents which of the follow-
ing?Hint:Population is shown by country
so we are able to understand how many
people (per square kilometer) live around
the world.
A. Rural
B. Urban
1007. Which of the following is a principle of

smart growth?
A. protecting wildlife habitats A. Population Distribution
B. focusing development outside of exist- B. Population Density
ing urban centers
C. creating neighborhoods best suited 1012. The District of Columbia is an urban
for cars area.
D. building up, not out A. True

B. False
1008. Why did farming lead to permanent vil-
lages? 1013. A(n) is made up of several large
A. people grew too much food to travel cities that have sprawled to the point that
they run together.
B. people needed to build storage for
crops A. Suburbs
C. people needed to stay and tend their B. megalopolis
crops
C. GIS
D. people had to make pottery to hold fo
D. ecological restoration
1009. The approach to development LEAST E. heat island
likely to result in sprawl is:
A. leap frog development 1014. American city Y is a hub of rail trans-
portation in the U.S., is near major coal
B. commercial “strip” development
mines, is considered a historic industrial
C. low density, single-use development city and is further inland than many of
D. high density, multi-use development its American predecessors. Most likely
decade:
1010. Industrialization has created the needs
A. 1840s
to invest in technologies, utilities and man-
ufacturing B. 1880s
A. system C. 1950s
B. industry D. 1790s

1015. Land that is sparsely populated and has American history and culture, a process
few buildings or roads is defined as known as
A. infrastructure A. Americanization
B. heat island B. assimilation.
C. rural area C. industrialization.
D. none of above D. urbanization.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1016. Urbanization has this effect on jobs. 1021. industrialization (n)
A. More people work on farms.
B. More people leave the city to work.
C. More types of jobs are available.
D. Less people work in the city than out-
side the city.
A. industry /��n.d�.stri/
1017. What is the best solution to reduce pol-
lution in urban areas? B. industrial /�n�d�s.tri.�l/
A. Build more factories C. industrialization /�n�d�s.tri.�.la��ze�.��n/
B. Improper disposal of waste
D. none of above
C. Use coal as source of energy
D. Reduce consumption of fossil fuels 1022. Wrote “How the other half lives” ex-
posing conditions in the slums
1018. the basic physical and organizational A. Susan B. Anthony
structures and facilities (e.g., buildings,
roads, and power supplies) needed for the B. Boss Tweed
operation of a society or enterprise C. Jacob Riis
A. Land Use D. Jane Addams
B. Land Cover 1023. What was created to help with the
C. Urbanization growing demand for land and housing in
U.S. cities?
D. Infrastructure
1019. Mrs. Mary demanded that the heater

immediately. Her apartment was
freezing
A. Repaired
B. Be repaired
C. Repair
D. Repairing
1020. In public schools, immigrant children

learned English and were taught about

A. slums 1029. Party bosses operating political ma-

B. skyscrapers chines practiced corruption by

C. unions A. not protecting populations from pollu-
tion and crime
D. streetcars
B. refusing to expand cities beyond cer-
1024. An area within the city where most of tain limits
the economic activities are concentrated
C. leading criminal gangs.
A. Central business district
D. providing housing, jobs, and protection
B. Megacity in exchange for votes.
C. Urban renewal programme
1030. Capital of Malaysia
D. Metro rail
A. Astana
1025. Why did the middle class build suburbs B. Kuala Lumpur
outside city centers?
C. New Delhi
A. To escape urban problems such as
crime and pollution D. none of above
B. Suburbs were the only affordable 1031. Why are these two schools different
pieces of land near the city each other?
C. To eliminate commutes to jobs in the A. To
suburbs B. From
D. To move closer to the city and to jobs C. With
1026. Farm land is usually found in rural areas. D. At
A. True 1032. ‘Worldwide’ has a word type of
B. False A. Adjective
1027. is one of the proposed smart cities B. Noun
of India.
C. Adjective, adverb
A. Jabalpur
D. adverb
B. Pahalgam
1033. What is a tenement?
C. Pushkar
A. A new form of transportation
D. Rewari
B. Poorly built, overcrowded apartment
1028. The American “melting pot” refers to buildings
A. the process of assimilation experi- C. The end of immigration
enced by immigrants
D. A revolutionary war in Africa
B. the method used by Henry Bessemer
to strengthen steel 1034. Urbanization is the spread of low-
C. the massive industrial output of the density urban or suburban development
American nation outward from an urban center.
D. the active volcanoes located on the A. true

continental United States B. false, checked

C. false, expansionism A. exacerbated

D. none of above B. deeply-rooted
1035. Counter-urbanization became popular C. relocated

and suburban downtown areas were able D. adverse
to become independent
1039. Is it ALWAYS possible to reclaim land af-
A. Urban Realms Model ter it is used?
B. Multiple Nuclei Model A. Yes
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C. Sector Model B. No
D. Galactic Model 1040. The largest metropolitan city in the
1036. Tenements in NYC were often world is
A. Hong Kong
B. Tokyo
C. Mumbai
D. Jakarta
1041. What was Ellis Island?
A. overcrowded and dirty

B. spacious but dirty
C. overcrowded but clean
D. spacious and clean
1037. What percentage do new immigrants A. An amusement park

make up of all the immigrants in 1900?
B. A vacation spot
A. 20%
C. An immigration center in New York
B. 40% D. The first capital of the United States
C. 70%
1042. Water that flows over the land to
D. none of above streams, rivers, and lakes
1038. His aggressive reaction only the sit-
uation.
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
D. Runoff

1043. Which of the following statements is 1047. Where were steel mills located?
true about urbanization? A. Chicago

A. Over half the world’s population lives B. Detroit
in cities.
C. Pittsburgh
B. In the last 50 years, half of the world’s
D. New England
cities have had their population go down.
C. By 2050, over � of the world popula- 1048. Urban problems in LDCs include all the
tion will be farmers. following except
D. Over half the world’s population lives A. Collapsing Infrastructure
in suburbs. B. Increasing levels of pollution
C. Increased volumes of traffic on poor
1044. Which of the following is shown in the
roads
photo above?
D. Sewage repair
1049. Define Urban Sprawl (Plz dont look up)

A. the rapid, often poorly planned spread
of development from an urban area out-
ward into rural areas
A. rural area B. development that combines housing
and businesses in one area, somewhat
B. city
like cities founded during colonial times.
C. suburban area C. a variety of transit options such as
D. heat island buses, light rail, and subways
D. involves the management and modifi-
1045. Which of these is NOT a reason people
cation of natural environment or wilder-
moved to cities?
ness into built environment such as set-
A. There is more space in cities for tlements and semi-natural habitats such
homes. as arable fields, pastures, and managed
B. There are more job opportunities in woods.
cities. 1050. What mode of transportation allowed
C. There are more resources in cities. city workers to live in far away suburbs
D. There were less people needed to and commute to their jobs?
work on farms.
1046. The philosophy of Social Darwinism ap-

plied Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
to
A. biblical accounts of creation.
B. human society and competition.
C. political and economic issues. A. streetcars
D. the social reform movement. B. horses

C. cars 1055. What is the second most urbanized con-

tinent?
D. trains
A. South America
1051. What proportion of the world’s popula- B. North America
tion lived in towns and cities in 1700?
C. Europe
A. 5%
D. Australia
B. 10%
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1056. Hispanic and Asian cities existed
C. 15%
A. for wealthy people exchanging land for
D. 20% the labor of the poor
B. for European powers taking raw mate-
1052. Which statement is true?
rials from their colonies
A. Many people living in low income
C. to show political or religious beliefs
neighborhoods feel like city services are
difficult to access. D. blend mosques & government build-
ings into the landscape
B. Many people living in middle class
neighborhoods feel like city services are 1057. unemployment (n) /��n.�m�pl��.m�nt/
difficult to access.
C. Many businesses are hiring their own
private police, fire, and sanitation ser-
vices because most cities refuse to pro-
vide them.
D. Many people are moving to the sub-
urbs because cities do not provide sanita-
tion services.
A. unemployment
1053. the process of becoming more like a city B. too urban
A. rate C. counter-urbanization
B. slightly D. none of above
C. rural area 1058. What is a urban area?
D. urbanization
A.
1054. “Ideas such as “Americanization, “
“Melting Pot, “ and “Assimilation de-
scribed which of the following?
B.
A. a way to find jobs for immigrants
B. a way to exclude immigrants
1059. Juan decided to move to the United
C. a way to integrate immigrants into so-
States because he is a carpenter and there
ciety
is a high demand for those types of jobs.
D. a way to deport immigrants This is an example of a

A. Push Factor 1064. About how many percent of Vietnamese

B. Pull Factor population live in urban areas?

A. 20%
1060. Which of the following is NOT a busi-
ness practice invented by department B. 30%
stores? C. 40%
A. restaurants in stores D. 50%
B. bartering 1065. What was the major reason for Chinese
C. price tags immigration to the United States in the
D. special Christmas windows early 19th century?
A. Many were escaping severe unemploy-
1061. Immigration pull factors are ment and famine
B. Many were escaping religious persecu-
tion
C. Many left to avoid required military
service
D. Many left to escape the class system
and move up the social ladder
A. reasons people come to a new place 1066. Which would increase the amount of
runoff you get?
B. reasons people leave their homelands
A. Vegetation
C. reasons people begin working
B. More plants
D. reasons people stop working
C. Urban Development
1062. Immigrants could not enter the port if D. none of above
A. They did not have a skill
1067. The United States and Japan will work
B. They had money toward promoting more in each other’s
C. They were healthy markets.
D. none of above
1063. The ruling from Plessy v. Ferguson

(1896) was based on the Supreme Court’s
interpretation of which of the following?
A. necessary and proper clause from Ar-
ticle I, section 8 of the Constitution
B. equal protection clause in the 14th
Amendment A. investment
C. free provision of the First Amendment B. foreign direct investment
D. voting rights provision in the 15th C. pollution

Amendment D. unemployment

1068. Composition of urban population in

2001:
A. 38%
B. 48%
C. 58%
D. 68%
A. Air pollution
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1069. Where do we see higher rates of rural B. Land pollution
to urban migration?
C. Noise pollution
A. LEDCs
D. Water pollution
B. MEDCs
C. Asia 1074. Transportation systems, communication
systems, water services, schools are
D. Europe
A. infrastructure
1070. The act of leaving your own country to B. rural areas
go and live permanently in another coun-
try C. ecological footprints
A. pilgrimage D. none of above
B. emigration 1075. competitive job opportunities and defor-

C. destination estation are both economic impacts of ur-
banization
D. boarding
A. True
1071. Was an anti-immigrant organization B. False
A. American Protective Association
1076. Market Zones surround the outside of
B. Taiping Rebellion the city, while the CBD is usually a port
C. Little Italy A. Peripheral Model
D. Angel Island B. Latin American Model
C. Asian model
1072. What is the term used to describe the
growth of cities? D. Galactic Model
A. Nativism
1077. How young were children who started
B. Nationalism to work in the factories?
C. Americanization A. 4-5 years old
D. Urbanization B. 7-10 years old
C. 11-15 years old
1073. What urban problem is shown in the
photo? D. 16 and older

1078. Cramped tiny apartments in cities were 1083. What is one of the causes of homeless-
called ness in the United States?
A. uneven food distribution

A. Flats
B. Tenements B. lack of affordable housing
C. Condos C. government subsidies
D. none of above D. political corruption
1079. Identify the Urban Model Pictured: 1084. Removing trees so that native prairie
grasses can grow again is an example of
A. ecological restoration
B. zoning
C. green building
D. none of above
1085. The adjective of the word ‘unemploy-
ment’ is
A. unemployed
B. Sector Model
B. unemployable
C. unemployment
D. unemploy
1080. A city grows in a series of wedges or 1086. The vast majority of immigrants arriv-
corridors, which extend out from the CBD ing on the East Coast passed through a pro-
A. Multiple Nuclei Model cessing center located where?
B. Concentric Zone Model A. Angel Island
C. Sector Model B. Ellis Island
D. Galactic Model C. Staten Island
1081. A major population center made up of D. Long Island
a large city and the smaller suburbs and 1087. Negative effects of urbanization include
towns that surround it all the following except
A. Rural Fringe A. Pollution
B. Planned Communities B. Efficiency
C. Mixed Use Development C. Disease
D. Metropolitan Area D. Environmental hazards
1082. The city of in Mesopotamia civiliza- 1088. A jackhammer on a city street is an ex-
tion is considered to be the oldest city. ample of what type of pollution?
A. Sumer A. light
B. Uruk B. water
C. Babylon C. noise
D. Lotha D. air

1089. Which continent has the most mega 1094. Saving energy and other resources with-
cities out sacrificing people comfort is the goal of
A. Asia A. greenways
B. Europe B. urban growth boundaries
C. Africa C. green building design
D. South america
D. zoning
1090. Use the excerpt below to answer the
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question. Whereas in the opinion of the 1095. What was the largest housing project
Government of the United States the com- in the world-located on the south side of
ing of Chinese laborers to this country en- Chicago?
dangers the good order of certain locali- A. Cabrini Green
ties within the territory thereof Chi-
B. CHA
nese Exclusion Act, 1882 Which factor led
to the passage of this act? C. Robert Taylor Homes
A. Chinese workers establishing ethnic D. Geautreaux Project
neighborhoods
B. school districts refusing to establish 1096. Capital of Japan
segregated schools for Chinese students A. Beijing
C. Chinese immigrants supporting social- B. Tokyo
ist groups
C. Ankara
D. native-born citizens resenting Chinese
immigrants for accepting lower wages D. none of above
1091. sensationalism of news 1097. Poverty is a push factor. True or False?

A. Black Journalism A. True
B. White Journalism B. False
C. Yellow Journalism
1098. Which of the following would most
D. Purple Journalism
likely result in urban growth in Town A?
1092. People moving from rural areas to urban A. High death rate and low birth rate
areas
B. Low death rate and high birth rate
A. Urbanization
C. Urban to rural migration
B. Urban Hierarchy
C. Commercialization D. Increased employment
D. Industrialization 1099. The shift of population fromthe country-

side to urbanareas
1093. GPS stands for
A. General Planning System A. Heat Island
B. Global Positioning System B. Rural land use

C. Group Photo Shooting C. Urbanization
D. none of above D. Suburbanization

1100. Old immigrants were 1106. Subway systems were first developed
to
A. Protestant

A. transport people away from cities.
B. Jewish
B. carry people from one city to another
C. Catholic
C. relieve congestion on city streets.
D. none of above
D. eliminate polluted air in the cities.
1101. My suggestion is that the sick boy 1107. When many MSA’s overlap with one an-
to hospital as soon as possible other it is known as a
A. Is taken A. megalopolis
B. Must be taken B. metropolis
C. Be taken C. megacity
D. HAs to be taken D. monster city
1102. Where do most of the people in the US 1108. An area with factories, lots of people
live? per square mile and very few trees
A. rural
A. 80 % in cities
B. suburban
B. 80 % in the country
C. urban
C. 20% in the woods
D. country
D. 25% by beach
1109. Which object below would have an
1103. True/False:Urbanization is an impor- albedo score of 1.
tant pattern of migration. A. A green forest
A. True B. A deep blue ocean
B. False C. Fresh clean snow
D. A pitch black rooftop
1104. Developed countries tend to have
levels of urbanization than developing 1110. What is a capital city of country called
countries.
A. Hamlet
A. the same
B. Town
B. lower C. Mega city
C. higher D. Metropolis
D. decreased
1111. Lewis Latimer used to improve the
light bulb
1105. What have caused in increase in the per
capita land consumption? A. tungsten filaments
A. Most people like having some space B. carbon filaments
and privacy. C. aluminum filaments
B. building out not up D. steel filaments

1112. Urbanization has a negative impact on: C. To remove air from iron to create alu-
A. Biodiversity, pollution, and ecosys- minum
tems D. A process to create tungsten
B. Biodiversity, ecosystems, and educa- 1118. Large urban areas with thousands of
tion people can create which can affect
C. Ecosystems, education, and economy weather
D. Economy, pollution, and biodiversity A. Heat islands
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1113. The entry point for immigrants into the B. Cold islands
USA in New York City. C. Heat bubbles
A. Immigrant Island D. tropical zones
B. Jekyll Island 1119. Problems that existed in the early
C. Ellis Island 1900’s in urban areas included
D. Angel Island A. child labor and unsanitary (dirty) con-
ditions
1114. which of the following of is not an ad-
B. unskilled laborers and dangerous
vantage of satellite cities?
farming conditions
A. decongest main city
C. too much farm land to take care of
B. near to workplace
D. not enough good crop land to grow
C. better housing facilities cash crops
D. propel economy of new town
1120. In order to build a sustainable city, the
1115. What is water doing when it is changed transportation planning must consider the
to water vapor? elements below except
A. evaporating A. Low carbon mobility
B. condensing B. Renewable energy for mode of trans-
port
C. precipitating
C. Fossil fuel dependent
D. runoff
D. Changing lifestyle
1116. True or falseBern developed as an urban
centre during the industrial revolution 1121. The most effective and most enduring la-
bor union of the post-Civil War period was
A. True the
B. False A. National Labor Union
1117. The Bessemer Process was what? B. Knights of Labor
A. To inject air into molten iron to remove C. American Federation of Labor
the carbon & other impurities to create D. Knights of Columbus
steel
B. To inject air into molten iron to remove 1122. Which of the options below are NOT fac-
the carbon & other impurities to create di- tors that contribute to housing shortage?
amonds A. Limited flat land

B. Rural-urban migration 1128. An ‘urban area refers to:

C. Low birth rates A. The area along coastlines.

D. Low death rates B. to towns, cities, and suburbs. An ur-
ban area includes the city itself, as well
1123. Leisure activities included
as the surrounding areas.
A. sports
C. Villages, farms and agricultural areas
B. Theater within the state of Queensland.
C. Amusement Parks D. none of above
D. all of the above
1129. Which class lived outside the city and
1124. A city with 10 million or more people is usually inherited their money?
called this. A. Upper Class
A. suburb B. Middle Class (white collar)
B. bloomberg C. Working Class (blue collar)
C. metropolis
D. none of above
D. megacities
1130. During industrialization, Americans in-
1125. Urban or Rural:It has a major Interna- creasingly
tional Airport
A. had less free time
B. outlawed cruel and violent sports like
boxing
C. became less involved in physical
sports and games
D. shared a common and standardized
popular culture
A. Rural 1131. In the late 19th century US, many of the

B. Urban reform movements were the result of
A. the growth of states’ rights
1126. Samuel Gompers founded the for
skilled workers to seek better working B. continuing decline of immigration
conditions. C. increased taxation
A. Knights of Labor D. industrialization & the growth of cities
B. American Federation of Labor
1132. What is a main reason immigrants came
1127. With the upgradation of roads, it shows to the US in the late 1800s and early
that transportation plays a crucial role 1900s?
in the industrialization of any nation A. Did NOT want religious freedom
A. system B. Hoped for economic opportunity (to
B. infrastructure make money)
C. process C. Wanted LESS diversity
D. models D. Wanted to live more simply

1133. True/False:Urbanization is slowing

down and will continue to slow down in
the future.
A. True
B. False
1134. Which of the following are problems as-
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sociated with urbanization?
A. Decentralization of shopping facilities
B. Establishment of suburbs
A. cheap, affordable
C. Lack of adequate housing B. close to reality/reality
D. Regularization of squatter settlements 1139. Which is a social benefit that draws peo-
ple to the city?
1135. Which one from the following is not the A. educational facilities
aim of Masdar City?
B. commercialization
A. Say no to fossil fuels. C. industrialization
B. Keep cool D. housing
C. Use fuel 1140. He insisted that I my homework
D. have car-free streets. A. Do
B. Did
1136. designing cities to maximize their func- C. Was
tionality and beauty
D. Were
A. Smart Growth
1141. Using machinery to replace manual la-
B. City Planning bor is called ?
C. Greenway A. Oppressive
B. Urbanization
D. Urbanization
C. Mechanization
1137. Based on the graph, which area is the D. Iron Man
coolest temperature?answer choices 1142. In late nineteenth-century cities, doc-
A. rural tors, lawyers, engineers, managers, social
workers, architects, and teachers made up
B. park a growing
C. suburban residential A. middle class.
B. tenement class.
D. downtown
C. wealthy society.
1138. downmarket (adj) /�da�n�m��.k�t/ D. working class.

1143. Relating to the country, country people C. forming ethnic neighborhoods in many
or life, or agriculture is known as an: communities.

A. Urban area D. rapidly assimilating into mainstream
B. Suburban area American culture.
C. Rural area 1148. Rural or urban?:strong relationships
D. urban blight and interactions of the people.
A. Urban
1144. This flag belongs to
B. Rural
1149. What are some problems associated

with poor sanitation and waste disposal
in urban areas?
A. improved hygiene and health
B. clean and well-maintained public
A. USA spaces
B. Italy C. adverse effects on health due to im-
C. Mexico properly removed trash
1145. A loud highway next to your house 1150. Before the Industrial Revolution all
would be considered products were created by
A. Light pollution A. Factories
B. Noise pollution B. Hand
C. Pollution C. Slaves
D. Urbanization D. Royalty
1146. Who gained the most from suburbaniza- 1151. Who wrote “The Jungle?”
tion? A. John Steinbeck
A. lower income residents
B. John Hersey
B. middle class
C. Upton Sinclair
C. The power elite-big developers, con-
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
tractors
D. Cabrini Green residents 1152. The rapid growth of cities resulted in all
of the following EXCEPT the
1147. The wave of immigrants that arrived in
A. need for public services, such as water
the late nineteenth century changed Amer-
and sewage
ican society by
A. bringing new ideas to American indus- B. rise of slums and tenement houses
tries. C. shortage of housing facilities
B. changing the face and size of American D. increased democratic freedoms for
cities. women and First Americans

1153. A common characteristic of all three shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-
models of urbanization tost [tossed] to me, I lift my lamp beside
the golden door!”-Emma Lazarus, “The
New Colossus” In this poem, the phrase
“homeless, tempest-tost” refers to
A. Soldiers
B. Immigrants
C. Survivors of a shipwreck
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A. CBD is always in the middle
B. none of them include a suburb D. Unemployed workers
C. immigrants live in single-family 1157. Which type of surface would have the
dwellings highest albedo effect?
D. working class homes located farthest
from the CBD
1154. This group of people was against immi-

gration.
A. Forest
A. patriots B. Snow
C. Water
B. railroad barons
D. Rock
C. nativists
D. company owners 1158. What part of the country did political
machines control?
1155. The shift of a population from the coun-
tryside to cities is called
A. urbanization.
B. infrastructure.
C. land preservation.
D. an ecological footprint.
1156. Base your answer to the next ques-

tion on the poem below and your knowl-
edge of social studies. “Keep ancient A. Urban (city) governments
lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With B. Rural (country) governments
silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe C. The U.S. federal government
free, The wretched refuse of your teeming D. none of above

1159. Urbanization programmes are being car- A. Homeowners in new developments

ried out in many parts of the world, espe- pay taxes which help fund roads, schools,
cially in densely religion with limited and other city services.

land and resources B. Houses in the suburbs cost less and
A. crowded are better places to raise a family.
B. narrow C. People in new developments spend
money on furnishings, which is good for
C. overload
local stores.
D. limitary
D. Developing rural areas destroys habi-
1160. Sprawl affects which of the following? tats for plants and animals.
A. pollution 1164. Things that pull you toward another
B. economics area or push you out of your area.
C. public health A. Urbanization
D. all of these B. Population Distribution

C. Immigration
1161. What city build the first sub-
way(underground transportation) to re- D. Push Pull Factors
lieve congestion in the city? Hint:it isn’t 1165. Sustainable decision making is a plan-
who you think it is? ning that considering goals and impact re-
A. Chicago gardless of how difficult they are to be
B. Boston measured.
C. New York City A. FALSE
D. Philidelphia B. TRUE
1166. What is the basic service that is lacking

1162. English belongs those who use it
in slums and squatter settlements that re-
A. From sult in the phenomenon seen in the photo?
B. To
C. On
D. In
1163. Which of the following is a statement

that a person opposing urban growth
might say?
A. Lack of proper sanitation and waste

disposal
B. Lack of electricity

C. Lack of safe shelter 1171. Electricity to the home created a market

D. Lack of clean water supply for
A. home appliances
1167. Communities that are just outside of
an urban area where many people live in B. urban travel
neighborhoods are C. steel frames
D. coal ovens
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1172. Albedo can best be described as
A. the temperature at the equator
B. the amount of solar radiation ab-
sorbed
C. the amount of solar radiation reflected
A. rural areas D. the air pressure during El Nino
B. suburbs
1173. Which class owned and/or managed
1168. In contrast to Social Darwinists, so- businesses, had large homes, enjoyed
cial reformers believed that society’s prob- leisure activities all paid for with profits
lems could be fixed only by from the industrial revolution?
A. encouraging competition and natural A. Upper Class
selection. B. Middle Class (white collar)
B. helping poor people to help them- C. Working Class (blue collar)
selves.
D. none of above
C. recognizing that people fail due to cir-
cumstances beyond their control. 1174. What has the highest albedo?
D. regulating the economy and helping
those in need.
1169. Illegal use of political influence for per-

sonal gain
A. graft
B. political machine A. the oceans
C. patronage B. Ice in the Arctic or Antarctic
D. none of above C. the ground
D. roads
1170. What philosophy held that some people
fail in life because of circumstances beyond 1175. Which is not one of the four city mod-
their control? els?
A. individualism A. Concentric
B. naturalism B. Hexagonal
C. realism C. Sector
D. Social Darwinism D. Urban Realms

1176. The way we use our land is called 1181. Which of the following would be consid-
A. Land Cover ered a primate city?

A. Berlin, Germany
B. Landfills
B. Sao Paulo, Brazil
C. Land plants
C. New York City, United States
D. Land use
D. Paris, France
1177. What is “decentralization?”
1182. The third phase began after the Second
A. When families work in a city but live World War II and the people are known as
just outside it. the Baby Boom generation. More people
B. Taxing people who live outside a city moved to urban areas for a variety of op-
but use city resources. portunities.
C. Discriminating against minorities and A. Phase 1
lower class people when deciding on mort- B. Phase 2
gages.
C. Phase 3
D. When a business takes its factory out-
side the city because of cheaper land. D. Phase 4
1183. Which of these is NOT an example of

1178. Which class of women were involved in
urban problems in the early 1900s?
the reform movement?
A. bad sanitation
A. Upper Class
B. crime
B. Middle Class (white collar)
C. too many opportunities
C. Working Class (blue collar)
D. fire
D. none of above
1184. This act prohibited immigration by Chi-
1179. Hendersonville has 1, 885 people per nese laborers
square mile. Is it considered urban?
A. Chinese Seclusion Act
A. Yes because it has less than 5, 000 peo-
ple. B. Chinese Exclusion Act
B. No because it has less than 5, 000 peo- C. Chinese Erosion Act

ple. D. none of above
C. As long as an area has lots of concrete, 1185. Urban areas are more populated the
it is considered urban. rural areas.
D. The number of people doesn’t deter- A. sparsly
mine if an area is urban.
B. densely
1180. Two branches of geography are C. both
A. creative and technical D. none of above
B. human and musical
1186. unrestricted growth of urban areas
C. there is only one branch without concern of urban planning
D. human and physical A. urban planning

B. urbanization 1192. A sustainable solution to urban growth

C. urban sprawl A. suburban growth
D. none of above B. stopping growth
1187. Adventure 2. Escape from oppressive C. building up
governments 3. Hope for better opportuni- D. urban heat island
ties 4. Religious freedom Which title best
describes this list? 1193. Land that is sparsely populated and has
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few buildings or roads is defined as a(n)
A. Resources for the Development of
cities A. heat island
B. Reasons for Immigration to the United B. urban area
States C. rural area
C. Reasons Why Colonists Immigrated to D. none of above
Europe
D. none of above 1194. What does ‘urbanization’ mean?
A. the process by which more and more
1188. Immigrants changed America in the fol- people leave the countryside to live in
lowing ways, except cities
A. Fueled industrial growth
B. B the process of becoming more like a
B. acquired citizenship city
C. increased amount of jobs in the US C. both A and B
1189. Is the following an opportunity or a 1195. True or False? Population built up
problem in regards to Urbanization? Traf- around a central location is called linear
fic Jams distribution
A. Opportunity A. True
B. Problem B. False
1190. The four origins of cities include all ex- 1196. A major issue slums face in Venezuela is
cept a lack of this.
A. Cultural A. education
B. Religious
B. water
C. Military
C. security
D. Entertainment
D. shelter
1191. The journey to America was all of the
1197. One way that planners enforce their de-
following except
cisions is , the practice of classifying ar-
A. Cheap ticket price eas for different types of development and
B. Could only bring what they carry land use.
C. long lines to get on the ship A. zoning
D. none of above B. rural

C. sprawl C. Prevented child labor

D. public transportation D. Created sanitation codes

E. infrastructure 1203. population shift from rural to urban
1198. This spreads quickly on ships, especially A. urban planning
in the lower decks B. urbanization
A. Positive vibes C. urban sprawl
B. Rumors D. none of above
C. Illness
1204. In ancient times cities ranged from 2,
D. none of above 000-20, 000 people and one of the most
massive cities, Ur
1199. Without electricity human life quite
different today A. had a population of 2, 000, 000
A. Is B. had a population of 20, 000, 000
B. Will be C. had a population of 25, 000
C. Would have been D. had a population of 200, 000
D. Would be 1205. What does Urbanization mean
1200. Which of these images shows a RURAL A. giving your grandma a hip look
area? B. when people migrate and cities grow
larger
A. C. not applicable
D. hi
1206. What was the process in which im-
B. migrant children became knowledgeable
about American culture at public schools?
A. Americanization
1201. I am not going to sit here and let her B. Social darwinism
insult me. I demand that she immediately
for what she just said C. nativism
A. Apologize D. individualism
B. Apologizing 1207. In 1973, Oregon placed growth bound-

C. To apologize aries around its urban areas. What was
the purpose of these boundaries?
D. Apologized
1202. In New York State the Tenement House

Act passed
A. Cut working hours to eight hours
B. Required new buildings to have better
ventilation in bathrooms and running wa-
ter

A. to prevent the development of farm- A. Transit

land and forests
B. Infrastructure
B. to build a new building on an old, aban-
C. Public domain
doned lot
C. to create bigger and better suburbs D. land cover
D. to kick all the people out of the city and 1213. Department stores attracted customers
let squirrels live in the apartments because
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1208. What is urbanization? A. they were smaller than general stores
A. When people move from urban to rural B. they had many different types of prod-
areas ucts under one roof
B. When people move from the lake to the C. they built mass transit to bring cus-
forest tomers to them
C. When people move from rural areas to D. they offered a small selection of prod-
urban areas ucts.
D. When people work in factories more
than farming 1214. Which factor contributed to the shifting
of population from rural to urban areas
1209. Is this rural or urban?:fewer services from 1870-1900?
and less industry
A. Not enough families took advantage of
A. Rural the Homestead Act
B. Urban
B. Great Plains Indians left their reserva-
1210. Which of these images shows a URBAN tions to buy new farmland
area? C. Houses in cities were less expensive
than those in the counttryside
A. D. Better jobs in industry attracted farm-
ers and laborers to cities
1215. What percentage of immigrants made it

B. through Ellis Island without any problems?
1211. Where was the world´s first subway

built?
A. New York City
B. Boston
C. Philadelphia
A. 58%
D. London
B. 78%
1212. Important amenities like power grids,
C. 88%
roads, hospitals, schools, etc. are consid-
ered D. 98%

1216. An area with many fields, large farms, 1222. Which of the following is the BEST rea-
trees and few people per square mile son for the location of Kingston?

A. urban A. It is located on a plain.
B. rural B. It is located near a swamp
C. suburban
C. It is surrounded by water
D. metropolitan
D. It has a river running through it center
1217. What some of the characteristics of
“slums and squatter settlements?” 1223. a built up area such as a city or town
A. Overcrowded A. urban
B. safe
B. suburban
C. Materials used to build these houses
are of good quality C. rural
D. Are equipped with basic services. D. none of above
1218. Political machines could operate illegally 1224. His tired face suggest that he really
because often times the were hired by tired after the long walk
the machine.
A. Had been
A. city council
B. school board B. Was
C. mayor C. Be
D. police D. Should be
1219. A reason for wanting to leave you coun- 1225. Urban Sprawl affects which of the fol-
try or origin is call a lowing?
A. Push Factor
A. Pollution
B. Pull Factor
B. Public Health
1220. Urban problems in MDCs include all the
following except C. Economics
A. Traffic congestion D. All answers are correct

B. Collapsing infrastructure
1226. Is this rural or urban?:lots of services
C. Death of the CBD and industry
D. Urban sprawl A. Rural
1221. The Central Business District (CBD) of B. Urban
most American cities usually function to-
day as centers of 1227. Is this urban or rural?:Major occupa-
A. employment tions are industrial, administrative and
B. shopping malls professional in nature
C. theme parks A. Rural

D. industrial and warehouses B. Urban

1228. What was not an factor of the agrarian A. low-density, centuries

revolution B. high-density, centuries
A. Farming innovations C. low-density, years
B. Less farm workers needed D. none of above
C. people moving to cities
1234. Define the term urbanisation
D. Steam power
A. the process whereby there is a de-
1229. Urbanization causes which of the fol- creasing number of people living in towns
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lowing health problems? and cities
A. Influenza B. changing the image of a city
B. Asthma C. the outer edge of a city or town where
C. Chicken pox the built area meets the countryside
D. Both a) and b) D. the process whereby a growing % of

people are living in towns and cities
1230. Global population is expected to top out
at billion people. 1235. A nice, warm climate would be an exam-
ple of a factor.
A. 6
B. 7
C. 9
D. 10
1231. In North-eastern part of Brazil,
whichtypes of settlements are found?
A. Linear A. push
B. Nucleated B. pull
C. Dispersed C. tropical
D. star-shaped D. climate
1232. lasting or having an effect over a long 1236. Which term describes the mixture of cul-
period of time (compound adj) tures we have here in the United States?
A. short-term A. Nativism
B. long-term B. Melting Pot
1233. For most of human history, populations C. Steerage
lived in very rural settings. Urbaniza- D. Open Border
tion is a trend unique to the past few
1237. Which of the following is not a megac-
ity?
A. Tokyo
B. Moscow
C. Sydney
D. Mexico City

1238. People moving from the rural areas to C. Tokyo

cities is called D. Delhi

A. Ruralization
1244. Rural means
B. Urbanization
A. countryside/farms
C. Colonization
B. city
D. None of these C. developed
1239. What are some problems created by ur- D. wilderness
banization?
1245. It is one of the oldest cities in the world
A. crowding, pollution, and poor sanita-
tion
B. migration, immigration, and large num-
bers of refugees
C. rural lifestyle
D. none of above
1240. Sustainable cities should meet present A. New York

needs without sacrificing future genera- B. Tokyo
tions’ ability to meet their needs
C. Rome
A. TRUE
D. Athens
B. FALSE
1246. Better education-provision is better and
1241. An example of Nonpoint Source Pollu- more accessible is a
tion would include
A. operational wastes from industries
B. Pollution from a pipe
C. Water bottles floating in the ocean
D. A factory leaking chemicals into
nearby stream
1242. Villages grew around the markets and

they were called as the
A. push factor
A. Rural Market
B. pull factor
B. Market city
1247. a strip of undeveloped land near an ur-
C. Market village
ban area, set aside for recreational use or
D. Market towns environmental protection
1243. Which is the largest city in the world A. Land Cover
with the population of above 38 million B. Land Use
A. Madrid C. Greenway
B. Bern D. Smart Growth

1248. What is town? 1252. What is one benefit of a mixed-use de-

A. is generally larger than a village but velopment?
smaller than a city. A. Housing is kept far away from the
noise and traffic of business districts.
B. an area of open land, especially one
planted with crops or pasture, typically B. There is plentiful parking because the
bounded by hedges or fences. development is built around the need for
cars.
1249. What heats faster, land or water? C. People can live, work, and shop in the
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same neighborhood.
D. Housing density is lower, and there is
plenty of land between homes.
1253. The growth of cities is:
A. Immigration
B. Urbanization
C. Materialization
A. Land
D. none of above
B. Water
1254. Restoring old buildings is an example of
1250. Which city developed into a steel- A. sprawl
manufacturing area?
B. urbanization
C. smart growth
D. none of above
1255. Where do we typically see saltwater in-
trusions into freshwater aquifers?
A. Boston
A. On the great plains
B. Detroit
B. In the mountainous regions
C. Pittsburgh
C. In coastal areas
D. New York City
D. Along rivers
1251. Which of the following is not a pull fac-
1256. Which of these are NOT ways to im-
tor?
prove industrialization?
A. Freedoms A. land-use planning
B. Job opportunities B. mass transit
C. New inventions C. open spaces
D. War in home country D. add more concrete

1257. what are some causes of urbanization B. An increase in freshwater supplies

A. none of the above C. Improvements in healthcare

B. it was made in Africa D. Advances in agriculture
C. when migration grows 1262. What is an example of infrastructure?
D. Transportation and trade centers draw A. buildings
people in
B. roads
1258. Immigration push factors are C. rivers
D. cars
1263. Which animal was domesticated first?
A. wild pig
B. wild sheep
A. reasons people come to a new place C. wild horse
B. reasons people leave their homelands D. wild cow
C. reasons people begin working
1264. To be a Megacity, the population has to
D. reasons people stop working be above
1259. What term means the growth of cities? A. 8 million
A. Naturalization B. 11 million
B. Urbanization C. 15 million
D. 10 million
C. Reconstruction
D. Immigration 1265. Water that is found underground in the
cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock is
1260. John D. Rockefeller and Andrew called:
Carnegie were the “captains” of which
industries?
A. Groundwater
B. River
C. Surface water
A. Oil and Ceral D. Snow
B. Oil and Steel
1266. Which of the following are examples of
C. Oil and Railroads a city infrastructure.
D. Steel and Railroads A. buildings
1261. What led to the development of the first B. politics
semi-permanent settlements? C. roads
A. Changes in the global climate D. power supplies

1267. Basic support systems needed to keep A. Migration

economy going:power, transportation, B. Urbanization
sanitation, education
A. urbanization 1272. How can the heat island effect be mini-
mized?
B. industrialization
C. urban geography
D. infrastructure
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1268. an attempt to control urban sprawl by,
in its simplest form, mandating that the
area inside the boundary be used for ur-
ban development and the area outside be
preserved in its natural state or used for A. planting trees, installing reflective
agriculture roofs, increasing green areas in the city,
increasing ground storage of rainfall
A. Zoning
B. creating more paved surfaces
B. Geographic Information System(GIS)
C. Urban Growth Boundary(UGB) C. installing solar panels
D. Greenway D. diverting runoff into nearby rivers
1269. The journey between one’s home and 1273. What is an urban area?
place of work A. Land that includes woods, beaches,
A. Commute crops
B. Driving B. Land covered by buildings, roads, and
suburbia
C. Tour
C. An area with a lot of shopping malls
D. Outing
D. An area with many forests
1270. Which best describes the goals of most
party bosses and politicians during the late 1274. An example of a physical characteristic
1800s? of a region is
A. They wanted to truly help the voters, A. mountains
both new and old immigrants
B. language
B. They wanted to stay in office and fat-
C. religion
ten their own wallets
C. They helped immigrants settle into D. all of the above
American life because it was the right
1275. Most urban working-class families lived
thing to do
in multifamily apartment buildings called
D. They frequently refused to support cer-
A. suburbs.
tain candidates who they knew were cor-
rupt B. skyscrapers.
1271. is the process in which population C. tenements.

from rural areas move to urban areas. D. work houses

1276. In the late 1800s, the increase in the 1280. Name something NOT found in the CBD.
number of tenement buildings resulted di- A. retail
rectly from the

B. office building
A. Changing role of women in the home
C. low-income housing
B. Increased federal aid for housing
D. entertainment
C. Need for health care facilities
1281. Is the following an opportunity or a
D. Rapid growth of urban populations
problem in regards to Urbanization? Cost
of Electricity for a bigger population
1277. Living standards tend to be in urban
areas. A. Opportunity
A. lower B. Problem
B. decreasing 1282. What does deforestation effect?
C. higher A. Plants and animals
D. none of above B. Our biosphere
C. Humans
1278. What were some of the new job oppor-
tunities that emerged during industrializa- D. All of the above
tion and urbanization?
1283. What is a rural area?
A. agriculture, fishing, and forestry
A. The largest city in an area
B. education and healthcare B. Residential area that surrounds a city
C. technology and information services C. Area outside of towns; farms are lo-
D. manufacturing, mining, transportation, cated here.
and construction D. none of above
1279. So he set down on the ground betwixt 1284. What is the definition of Migration?
me and Tom. He leaned his back up against
A. Physical movement of large groups of
a tree, and stretched his legs out till one
people over long distances.
of them most touched one of mine. My
nose begun to itch. It itched till the tears B. Physical movement of a family to an-
come into my eyes. But I didn’t scratch. other part of the country.
Then it begun to itch on the inside. Next C. Physical movement of luggages over
I got to itching underneath. I didn’t know long distances.
how I was going to set still.-Mark Twain,
D. none of above
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In the
excerpt above, Twain uses local dialect in 1285. Compared to the US, poor families in Eu-
order to ropean cities are most likely to be
A. criticize industrial society. A. clustered in inner city neighborhoods
B. entertain readers with lively humor. B. dispersed throughout the city
C. portray the world realistically. C. clustered in suburbs
D. sound an alarm. D. living in rural areas

1286. What was the leading factor that C. amenity

caused farmers to leave farming for fac- D. employed
tory jobs?
A. Better work conditions 1290. Which of the following are both exam-
ples of the tragedy of the commons?
B. Better transportation near factories
A. Overfishing and earthquakes
C. There was more housing near facto-
ries B. Flooding and tsunamis
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D. New farming technology replaced C. Pollution and overpopulation
farming jobs D. Super-germs and virus outbreaks
1287. Which is NOT a use for a rain barrel? 1291. leads to increased land values and
higher property taxes, which can cause a
demographic shift in a neighborhood’s eth-
nic makeup.
A. industrialization
B. gentrification
A. make use of rainwater for later use
C. suburban sprawl
B. reduces the amount of water going
D. none of above
into streams and rivers
C. store water for watering gardens 1292. Identify the Urban Model that is de-
scribed:This model has the advantage of
D. provide a clean source of drinking wa-
being more flexible than the other models.
ter
1288. North Town Village is an example of a
B. Sector Model
development
A. high income
B. low income
C. mixed income 1293. Trees, grass, crops, wetlands, water,
buildings and pavement are all examples
D. negative income
of
1289. The firm may be forced to from New A. land use
York to Stanford.
B. land cover
C. urban areas
D. rural areas
1294. How long did the New York City Sub-

way take to build?
A. 4 years
B. 8 years
A. go crazy C. 10 years
B. relocate D. 15 years

1295. Why were children put to work C. Buildings were built in unique shapes
A. Children during the 1700 would rather D. All of these happened

work than play with friends
B. Families needed more money for sup- 1300. what are some effects of urbanization
port A. work grows in the cities
C. It was a law that children had to work
B. f, vvvvfvv
D. None of the above
C. people are migrating like crazy
1296. This word is used to describe where peo-
D. more people everywhere get more
ple live far apart and there are only a few
money
scattered businesses and houses.
A. suburbs 1301. Large cities develop many nodes around
B. urban area which different types of people and activi-
ties cluster. This describes the
C. rural area
A. peripheral/galactic
D. industrialized area
B. multiple nuclei
1297. Which of the following services experi-
ence stress due to large population? C. sector
A. Roads D. concentric
B. Sewage system
1302. Political machines were created in cities
C. Malls in an effort to gain the votes of
D. Street lights
A. immigrants
1298. time-consuming (adj) /�ta�m.k�n�sju�.m��/ B. men
C. women
D. industrial workers
1303. Identify the Urban Model Pictured:
A. waste of time
B. expensive./luxury
C. worth thinking about
D. none of above
1299. How were cities built to conserve
space? B. Sector Model
A. Skyscrapers were built C. Multiple Nuclei Model

B. Tenements apartments were built D. Central Place Theory

1304. In this urban model, land prices would C. Athens

be highest in the area labeled D. Boston
1309. The custom of sending a greeting in a

card had become a tradition.
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A. 1
B. 2
C. 3 A. deep-rooted
D. 4 B. investment
1305. All of the following are considered to be C. adverse
the 3 main service sectors located in the D. long-term
CBD except:
1310. Tom asked that we his graduation
A. Consumer
ceremony next week
B. Agricultural
A. Attend
C. Business
B. To attend
D. Public
C. Attend
1306. What is the most urbanised continent? D. Attending
A. North America
1311. Which class lived in the overcrowded
B. South America cities and small, poorly built housing, and
C. Australia worked long hours?
D. Africa A. Upper Class
1307. All of the following are environmental B. Middle Class (white collar)
cost of urbanization EXCEPT C. Working Class (blue collar)
A. decrease in water supply D. none of above
B. increase in sewage 1312. Which statement best explains how the
C. growth of industrial waste application of electricity in the early 1900s
D. forest growth affected the development of the U.S. econ-
omy?
1308. Which city was first to reach 1 million A. Long-distance travel became more ex-
inhabitants? pensive.
A. NYC B. College education became more acces-
B. Rome sible.

C. Manufacturing processes became 1318. any system for capturing, and dis-
more efficient. playing data related to places on the
Earth’s surface

D. Household appliances became more
costly. A. Geographic Information System (GIS)
1313. The growth of cities is known as B. urban planning
A. Urbanization C. urbanization
B. Immigration D. none of above
C. Industrialization 1319. Two Major fires took place in
D. Town A. Boston and New York
1314. There is a demand for trained workers B. Boston and Los Angeles
in the Information Technology industry in C. Chicago and Los Angeles
urban areas such as Austin, TX. People are
D. Boston and Chicago
moving into the Austin metropolitan area
for work in that industry. This would be 1320. Cruel, ruthless business owners who ex-
an example of what type of migration fac- ploited their workers to turn high profits.
tor?
A. robber barons
A. Refugee factor
B. captains of industry
B. Pull factor
C. philanthropists
C. Push factor
D. Mr. Menard
D. Illegal immigration
1321. Why did urbanization increase after the
1315. Soil erosion can increase when humans Industrial Revolution?
remove trees and other vegetation from
an area. What is this process called?
A. Decomposition
B. Conservation
C. Deforestation
D. Urbanization
A. farms were no longer needed
1316. Land-use planning is done DURING the
B. all human needs could be met in cities
development process
A. True C. food production decreased
B. False D. farms started producing surplus food,

which allowed some families to stop farm-
1317. Which continent is home to some of the ing and move to cities in search of differ-
largest cities? ent jobs
A. North America 1322. Which of the following factors con-
B. Asia tributed to sprawl in the United States?
C. South America A. white flight
D. Africa B. more affordable automobiles

C. cheap mortgages on new construction C. Urbanization

D. all of the given options D. Ecological Footprint
1323. What is the impact of urbanization on 1329. An example of Point Source Pollution
rural areas? A. urban runoff
A. Increase in food production B. Sediment from improperly managed
B. Rural depopulation construction sites
C. discharges from wastewater treat-
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C. Increase in population
ment plants
D. More services
D. eroding streambanks
1324. How many places have been designated
national parks? 1330. Causes sprawl
A. Over 120 A. expensive gas costs
B. Over 250 B. lack of mass transit in cities
C. Over 390 C. increasing per capita land consump-

tion
D. Over 470
D. desire to live more sustainably
1325. Pull factor for people moving to urban
1331. Immigrant children became knowledge-
areas.
able about American culture at public
A. Availability of jobs schools, this process was known as
B. Lure of the cities A. Americanization
C. both of the above B. Nativism
D. none of the above C. Social Darwinism
1326. Cities suffering from urban crisis may D. Individualism
have 1332. What word best describes the process
A. traffic jams. of moving from rural to urban areas?
B. polluted air and water. A. Migration
C. both traffic jams and polluted air and B. Urbanization
water. C. Mega-City
D. none of above D. Slum
1327. The system where goods are exchange 1333. How did the influx of immigrants con-
instead of currency is known as a tribute to the changing American popula-
A. Barter System tion during this period?
B. Market Towns A. The influx of immigrants had no impact
on the changing American population.
1328. An attempt to design cities so as to max- B. The influx of immigrants decreased di-
imize their functionality and beauty is versity and cultural richness.
A. City Planning C. The influx of immigrants increased di-
B. Urban Sprawl versity and cultural richness.

D. The influx of immigrants led to a de- 1339. the practice of renewing and restoring
cline in the American population. degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosys-
tems and habitats in the environment by

1334. Which group of immigrants in NYC of- active human intervention and action
ten faced the most discrimination because
their neighborhoods were often seen as A. Smart Growth
“rough and dangerous”? B. Greenway
A. Italians C. City Planning
B. Jewish D. Ecological Restoration
C. Chinese 1340. Which is not a port of entry into the US
D. Irish A. Harpers Island
1335. All of the following are services pro- B. Ellis Island
vided by cities EXCEPT C. Angel Island
A. Consumer D. none of above
B. Business
1341. When realtors would scare white resi-
C. Public dents into selling their homes
D. Community A. white flight
1336. to become less B. blockbusting
A. rise C. redlining
B. decrease D. restrictive covenant
C. dramatically 1342. A strip of vegetated open space that
D. shortage connects parks or neighborhoods is called
A. heat island
1337. In what ways did steel promote indus-
trial development? B. green space
A. Railroads C. urban area
B. Frames for skyscrapers D. none of above
C. farming equipment 1343. Who created the plans for Central Park
D. telephones in New York
E. bridges A. Frederick Law Olmsted

B. George Eastman
1338. Which improvement to urban areas mod-
erates temperature, controls rainwater C. Orville Wright
runoff, and adds aesthetic value? D. Calvert Vaux
A. green spaces 1344. Particles of carbon enter the air when
B. storm sewers wood or coal is burned
C. public transportation A. True
D. none of above B. False

1345. Which of the following means is consid- 1350. In india people live in urban areas
ered within sustainable mobility? A. 31%
A. Walking
B. 42%
B. the cars
C. 29%
C. Cycling
D. 50%
D. Public transport
1351. Name Chicago’s CBD.
E. taxi
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A. The loop
1346. Example of satellite cities
B. The circle
A. Noida
C. The metro
B. Gurugram
D. The CHA
C. Thane
D. Navi Mumbai 1352. a large densely populated area & its sub-
urbs
E. All of the above
A. metropolis
1347. What is Urbanization? B. megacity
A. People move from village to city C. urbanization
B. People move from one country to an- D. none of above
other
C. Air pollution type 1353. Low paying jobs in rural areas may re-
sult in
D. none of above
A. poverty
1348. What main factors contributed to urban B. upward mobility
problems?
C. development of self-help projects
A. absence of business, lack of political
leaders D. rapid creation of training centers
B. overcrowding, lack of infrastructure, 1354. Which demographic change in the United
and pollution States is most associated with this trans-
C. lack of technology, lack of materials, formation?
and lack of money
D. plentiful jobs, new opportunities, and
safety
1349. Primary type of land cover in the United A. Increased property values in rural ar-
States today is eas
A. Forest land B. Increased life expectancies in urban
B. Urban land areas
C. Cropland C. Increased birth rates in rural areas
D. none of above D. Increased migration to urban areas

1355. the population shift from rural to urban

areas

A. the corruption of urban political ma-
chines
B. crime and violence in crowded cities
A. urbanization /��.b�n.a��ze�.��n/
C. disease and pollution in urban areas
B. counter urbanzination /�ka�n.t�r/
/��.b�n.a��ze�.��n/ D. the separation of classes in growing
cities
1356. Families moving to the cities for indus-
trial jobs caused the cities to see a massive 1360. Identify the Urban Model that is de-
increase in homes being built is also known scribed:The manufacturing zone is found
as along transport routes that link the city
center to other cities.
A. Ruralization
B. Suburb
B. Sector Model
C. Urbanization
D. All of the above
1357. The major economic factor which draws
people to cities is: 1361. Which Australian city has the largest
population?
A. Jobs
A. Melbourne
B. Better Housing
B. Sydney
C. Religious Freedom
C. Brisbane
D. Escape discrimination
D. Perth
1358. Advanced decisions about how land will
be used is more are collectively referred to 1362. Thane is an example of
as
A. land-use planning
B. urbanization
C. gis (geographic information system)
D. none of above
A. Mega City
1359. The cartoon satirizes which of the fol- B. Smart City
lowing problems that developed in the
late nineteenth century due to the rapid C. Satellite City
growth of urban areas? D. Rural area

1363. A developed land covered mainly with 1368. the human use of territory for eco-
buildings and roads is called nomic, residential, recreational, conserva-
A. Urban Area tional, and governmental purposes
B. Rural Area A. Land cover

C. Land cover B. Land use
D. Land use C. Zoning
D. Smart Growth
1364. In up to 80% of the population of
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cities may reside in a squatter settlements 1369. Delhi along with Faridabad, Ghaziabad,
A. Africa Noida and Gurgaon is an example of a
B. Asia A. satellite city
C. Europe B. smart city
D. North America C. metropolitan area
1365. The practice of donating millions to im- D. rural area
prove society such as in universities is
known as 1370. As long as you have an education, you
will find a job in the city
A. Naturalized citizen
A. false
B. Civic responsibility
B. true
C. U.S. Constitution
D. Philanthropy 1371. What is a Political Machine?
1366. Poor urban dwellers tend to consume A. A group that creates machines.
and low-quality food such as street B. A group that controls the activities of
food, which may expose them to health a political party.
risks. C. Where people could see machines.
A. plain
D. none of above
B. staple
1372. A new migration wave comes to US for
C. diet
employment and freedom that makes
D. insufficient be difficult to control
1367. War is a A. immigration
B. urbanization
C. globalization
D. civilization
1373. Regeneration is what?

A. When we use new land and generate
new cities
A. pull factorpull factor B. When we use next generation technol-
B. push factor ogy in the city

C. When we revive and renew old build- 1380. The crime rate in New York city is one
ings and areas of the city. of the highest in the nation.

D. none of above
1374. Unemployment and Poverty force peo-
ple to engage in
A. Social Activities
B. Anti-social activities
1375. Which action below supporting the way A. push factor
to achieve low carbon urban development?
B. pull factor
A. Encourage the expenditure on automo-
bile industries 1381. Any computerized system for sort-
B. Avoid using public transportation ing, manipulating, and viewing geographic
data is referred to as
C. Shift from fossil fuel dependency to re-
newable energy A. land-use planning
D. Innovation in music and fashion indus- B. urbanization
tries
C. gis (geographic information system)
1376. Which is [likely to be] more densely pop- D. none of above
ulated?
A. desert 1382. Cities often spread out over the sur-
rounding areas. The is called
B. coast
A. urban spread
1377. What invention allowed for large-scale,
long-distance transport of goods? B. urban growth
A. railroads C. urban overflow
B. electricity D. urban sprawl
C. telephone
1383. America’s industrialization made some
D. skyscrapers people wealthy and created a growing
1378. The area in the urban setting with the A. political machine.
highest land value is usually called what?
B. middle class
A. Planned Community
C. agricultural system.
B. High lateral investment zone
D. federal government
C. peak land value intersection
D. third-ring suburb 1384. Urbanization can also be defined as this
concept:
1379. Population density in a city is
A. higher than in rural areas A. rural to urban migration
B. lower than in rural areas B. urban to rural migration

C. higher than in suburban areas C. mass production
D. lower than in suburban areas D. cottage industry

1385. Which would you expect to have the 1390. Modern urbanization shows that
lowest albedo? A. 2/5 population in MDCs and 3/4 popu-
B. 1/4 population in MDCs and 1/5 popu-
C. 3/4 population in MDCs and 2/5 popu-
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D. 1/2 population in MDCs and 3/5 popu-
A. dark soil
B. white sand
C. ice and snow 1391. Where did Maman first find Jamal,
Salim, and Latika?
D. deep sea water
A. inside the orphanage
1386. Old immigrants typically became
B. at a landfill
A. unskilled workers
C. on the train
B. farmers
D. in the streets of Mumbai
C. welders
D. none of above 1392. What is the number one reason for city
growth?
1387. Feudal cities emerged during the Dark
A. better housing
Ages in Europe and were based around
B. jobs
A. wealthy people exchanging land for
the labor of the poor C. cheaper food sources
B. European powers taking raw materials D. more transportation options
from their colonies
1393. Jacob Riis published the book, Death of
C. showing political or religious beliefs an Immigrant Child, in 1891 to portray the
D. blending mosques & government build- suffering of immigrants in America.
ings into the landscape
A. True
1388. The idea of urbanization involves items B. False
such as creating and designing new build-
ings and creating new parks. 1394. Increasing public transit is one way to
A. True get people in a metropolitan area to drive
less. What is public transit?
B. False
A. A network of buses, trains, and other
1389. What do most cities in the developing vehicles used for moving passengers.
world have in common?
B. not allowing people to build develop-
A. Urban areas ringed by shantytowns ments on farmland
B. the central business districts C. replacing an abandoned factory with a
C. the wealthy live in the commuter zone new apartment building
D. Industry located next to the central D. when all the 7th graders get in Ms.
business district Dodor’s beetle and go to Taco Bell

1395. The area inside of a city is considered to C. Hinterland

be D. Slum

A. urban
1400. The philosophy that believed wealthy
B. suburban Americans bore the responsibility of using
C. rural their fortunes to further social progress.
D. none of above A. Social darwinism
B. Realism
1396. Which word means outside of the city,
but not all the way out in the country? C. Gospel of Wealth
D. Individualism
1401. A city is an example of

A. a rural area
B. an urban area
C. a township area
D. scattered settlement
A. urban
B. suburban 1402. Sprawl increases carbon dioxide emis-
sion by
C. rural
A. generating more factories
D. none of above
B. increasing the need to drive
1397. The UN estimates 2007 was the year C. resulting in more tree growth
when, for the first time, more people in
the world lived in than in areas. D. none of above
A. cities, urban 1403. Causes for people to leave their home

B. rural, urban country and move to another country
A. push factors and pull factors
C. villages, rural
B. immigration factors
D. urban, rural
C. urbanization
1398. What is the relationship between GDP
D. universal refugee experience
per Capita and Urbanised population?
A. No correlation 1404. Pull factors are
B. Positive correlation
C. Negative correlation
D. random
1399. A heavily populated urban area char-

acterized by substandard housing and
squalor A. good things that draw a person to an-
A. Threshold other country.
B. Urbanization B. reasons people leave an area

C. reasons that drive a person out of their 1409. Is the following an opportunity or a
country problem in regards to Urbanization? Too
D. none of above much trash
A. Opportunity
1405. What is the capital of Greece and is one
of the oldest cities in the world B. Problem
A. Athens 1410. What does “urbanization” mean?
B. New York
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A. The study of cities.
C. Rome B. The process of forming cities.
D. Tokyo C. People finding work in cities.
1406. What does this image say is the controls D. Farming in a city.
the decisions made by political machines?
1411. What challenge of urbanization and in-
dustrialization is demonstrated in this
photo?
A. unfair labor practices

A. resources
B. inner-city overcrowding
B. power
C. child labor exploitation
C. money
D. racism and discrimination
D. none of above
1412. making people think carefully about a
1407. The slums are usually called particular subject or issue (compound adj)
A. market towns A. thought-provoking
B. shanty towns
B. think-provoking
C. towns in town
1413. During the 19th and early 20th century,
D. industrial towns
These men helped immigrants with jobs
1408. Munn v. Illinois 1877 and housing in order to control votes dur-
ing election?
A. States won the right to regulate rail-
roads A. political parties
B. States couldn’t regulate railroads B. El Chapo
C. Abolished Granger Laws C. political bosses
D. Set up the ICC D. republican party

1414. A set of numbers and letters added to 1420. is an urban region which is highly ad-
an address to help mail delivery. vanced in terms of overall infrastructure.

A. Citizenship A. Satellite cities
B. Passcode B. Smart cities
C. Postcode
1421. Yes! Sally should build roads to other
D. Password places what are all the things she
1415. What do you call the minimum sound should build on the roads to make it a city?
level of a pure tone that an average nor- A. factories for work
mal human ear can hear?
B. schools for the kids
A. noise
C. farmland
B. sound
D. large houses with backyards
C. threshold of hearing
D. threshold of pain 1422. What is India’s richest city?
1416. What causes urban heat islands? A. Tokyo
A. movement of people from farms to B. Mumbai

cities C. Jakarta
B. lots and lots of people heating their D. Seoul
homes
C. roads and buildings absorb and retain 1423. Factors that make people to move from
heat longer than vegetation does another country/city
D. soil erosion A. Push factors
B. Pull factors
1417. A political machine was a group of orga-
nized honest politicians. 1424. growing at high speed (compound adj)
A. True
A. fast-grown
B. False
B. fast-growing
1418. The steerage is located
1425. slum (n) /sl�m/
A. Main deck of the ship
B. The dining hall
C. lowest deck of the ship
D. none of above
1419. How many people in the world live in

slums?
A. 1 billion A. slum
B. over 860 million B. prejudice
C. less than 512 million C. Overload
D. over 1 billion D. none of above

1426. Urban locations tend to have more B. Poverty of immigrants from other
A. farms countries
B. trees C. both of the above
C. roads D. none of the above

D. rivers 1432. A strip of vegetated open space that
connects parks or neighborhoods is called
1427. What is another word for urban areas? a(n)
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A. suburbs
A. urban area.
B. slums
B. greenway.
C. tenements
C. heat island.
D. cities
D. suburb.
1428. Urban or rural?:social mobility is high
1433. Which of the following is not a port of
A. Urban entry into the US
B. Rural A. Harper’s Island
1429. Which of the following urban areas is B. Angel Island
the smallest? C. Ellis Island
A. town D. none of above
B. village
1434. give too much information, work or re-
C. megalopolis sponsibility (v)
D. metropolis A. overload
1430. Movement of people from place to B. underload
place.
1435. Which of the following is NOT a Pull fac-
tor?
A. Migration
A. freedom
B. Cultural Diffusion
B. entertainmentwealth
C. Urban Sprawl
C. entertainment
D. Population Distribution
D. poverty
1431. Push Factors for people moving to urban
areas. 1436. Which city is the most densely popu-
A. Farm technology meant needing less lated city in the West?
farmers A. NY

B. THE 1441. Who was the leader of the corrupt Tam-

C. Atlanta many Hall, New York Political Machine?

D. Seattle
1437. Sprawl increases carbon dioxide emis-

sions by
A. generating more factories
B. increasing the need to drive
C. resulting in more tree growth
D. expanding the use of public transporta-
tion A. Andrew Carnegie
1438. Roads, sewers, transportation systems, B. Henry Ford
schools, and hospitals are all clear exam-
ples of C. John D. Rockefeller
A. infrastructure D. William “Boss” Tweed

B. urban sprawl
1442. Which of the following words BEST de-
C. heat islands scribes the characteristics of a city?
D. none of above A. Rural
1439. Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr B. Suburban
started the in Chicago in 1889.
C. Urban
A. settlement house
D. none of above
B. school
C. hull house 1443. The fact that most low skilled jobs are
D. library in the suburbs, but most cheap housing is
in the city is know as the mismatch
1440. Where was the main entry point for im-
A. wealth-housing
migrants coming into the United States in
the late 1800’s-early 1900’s? B. city-housing
C. jobs-housing
D. poor-housing
1444. Many people living in rural areas are

to major cities for the dream of free-
dom
A. going
A. Angel Island
B. Maui Island B. leaving
C. Ellis Island C. migrating
D. none of above D. shifting

1445. Which of the following is a effect of ur- 1450. More than of the population in ur-
banization on environment? ban areas are engaged in non agricultural
A. Pollution activities
B. Increased population A. Two-thirds

C. Unusual rise in temperature B. Three-fourths
D. All of these C. One thirds
E. None of these
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D. Three-fourths
1446. Which word means closely packed to-
gether? 1451. Which image is of an urban area?
A.
B.
A. dense
B. sprawl C.
C. urban
D. suburbs D. none of above
1447. Working conditions were very safe for
children and other workers during the In- 1452. In smart cities, is used to efficiently
dustrial Revolution utilise resources and provide amenities.
A. True A. Information technology

B. False B. Infrastructure
1448. Not many people live there C. Working population

A. densely populated D. Public transport
B. sparsely populated
1453. Which caused a bigger fall in UK’s pop-
C. rarely populated ulation?
D. scarcely populated
A. the Black Death
1449. Nativism in the late 1800s was focused B. the Great Plague
on Asians, Jews, and
A. Scandinavians 1454. To be full of noise and activity means
B. eastern Europeans. Bustling
C. the British. A. True

D. Canadians. B. False

1455. Poorly built overcrowded apartment 1459. In India cities have already been se-
buildings were lected as ‘Smart cities’

A. 20
B. 40
C. 60
D. 25
1460. Which continent has the most megaci-
ties?
A. Africa
B. Asia
C. Europe
A. settlement houses D. North America
B. skyscrapers 1461. What is occurring at number 5?
C. tenements
D. none of above
1456. Human made structures that are used
and paid for by community and help it func-
tion are called;
A. Developments
B. City Services
C. Infrastructure A. Condensation
D. Civic Buildings B. Evaporation
1457. What is the name given to a settlement C. Precipitation

where the buildings are arranged around a D. Runoff
central point e.g. a market?
1462. A human activity that causes habitat
A. Dispersed fragmentation is
B. Site A. Urban development
C. Nucleated B. soil erosion
D. Linear
C. Desertification
1458. What does ‘urbanization’ mean? D. none of above
A. A. the process by which more and
1463. Cities often spread out over the sur-
more people leave the countrysideto live
rounding areas. The is called
in cities
B. B. the process of becoming more like A. Urban Spread
a city B. Urban Sprawl
C. Both A and B C. Urban Growth
D. none of above D. Urban overflow

1464. According to the urban realms model, 1469. Which housing project was torn down
what develops at the outskirts of core to create North Town Village on the north
cities? side of Chicago?
A. airports A. CHA
B. edge cities B. Cabrini Green
C. nucleated cities C. Robert Taylor Homes
D. world cities D. Gautreaux
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1465. What invention allowed businesses to 1470. The government is “hands off” or not
be open after dark and powered ma- making many laws or regulations for busi-
chines? nesses or the owners
A. railroads A. county fair
B. electricity B. lazy friends
C. telephone C. Let it happen
D. skyscrapers D. famine
1466. Many factories and mines used to 1471. The Supreme Court case Wabash v. Illi-
perform special tasks in areas too small nois established the principle that a. b. c.
for adults. d.
A. Sherman Antitrust Act A. only the states can regulate the rates
railroads charge.
B. Big Business
B. the federal government may not inter-
C. Child Labor fere with corporations’ property rights.
D. Interstate Commerce Act C. only the federal government can regu-
late interstate commerce.
1467. Which statement about sustainable
cities is true? D. railroads are free to set whatever
rates they see fit.
A. They can help improve the standard of
living for residents. 1472. Urban or rural?:high rate of pollution
B. No major cities have made significant
progress toward sustainability yet.
C. They are only successful in the devel-
oped world.
D. They often help encourage sprawl.
1468. An extreme dislike for foreigners by

native-born people A. Rural
A. nativism B. Urban
B. tenement 1473. What do humans change when they
C. individualism build cities and other urban areas?
D. Social Darwinism A. Land use

B. Land cover C. by boat

C. Both use and cover D. by hot air ballons

D. Neither use or cover
1479. This is an extensive metropolitan area
1474. Growth in pollution leads to conse- or a long chain of continuous metropolitan
quential rise in allergies and respiratory areas
diseases. A. Primate City
A. Water B. Megalopolis
B. Air
C. World City
C. Soil
D. Edge City
D. none of above
1480. Amenities include items such
1475. to become larger in amount or size
A. Post offices
A. increase
B. Libraries
B. decrease
C. poisonous C. Grocery stores
D. slightly D. All of the Above
1476. During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood 1481. Skyscrapers became possible because
in a city set up by law to be inhabited only
by Jews; now used to denote a section of A. inventors developed stronger bricks to
a city in which members of any minority hold up buildings
group live because of social, legal, or eco-
nomic pressure B. builders began using steel frame con-
struction on buildings
A. Primate city
C. architects started using taller Euro-
B. Range
pean designs
C. Slum
D. immigrant labor made building
D. Ghetto cheaper
1477. Which was NOT a reason for immigra- 1482. relating to the practice or science of
tion to the U.S. in the 1880s (i.e. Gilded farming (adj)
Age)?
A. agricultural
A. Lots of jobs
B. industrial
B. Escaping persecution
C. Good working conditions 1483. Which was not a factor of the industrial
D. Escaping poverty revolution?
A. Increase in factories
1478. How was cotton brought to Manchester
from Liverpool in the late 18th century? B. People moving to rural areas
A. by train C. Job availability
B. by horses D. Availability of goods

1484. Which of these is false when it comes to C. The United States to Canada
industrialization.
D. cities to the country
A. Less farmers are needed because the
cities are growing. 1490. Poor neighborhoods in Venezuela are
B. Transportation becomes easier. called this.
C. There are more jobs in the cities. A. shantytowns
D. The climate is not affected. B. barrios
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1485. Many people are attracted to towns and C. ghettos
cities to acquire better
D. edge cities
A. Social and economic services
B. Health facilities 1491. What is causing many animals, such as
C. Education the box turtle’s habitat to be fragmented?
D. All of the above A. houses
1486. The movement of African Americans B. streams
from the South to the North during WWI
C. powerlines
and WWII is know as this.
A. The Sunbelt D. roads
B. Manifest Destiny
1492. Physical requirements for a city include
C. The Boswash Corridor all except
D. The Great Migration A. Legal boundaries
1487. a city that has a population of more than B. Government system
10 million
C. An urbanized area surrounding the
A. metropolis central city (suburbs)
B. megacity
D. Economic diversity
C. urbanization
D. none of above 1493. The majority of the resources used in Ur-
ban areas are found
1488. Society that is modern, industrialized
and diverse. A. In urban areas
A. Cosmopolitan Society B. In rural areas
B. Metropolitan Society C. In the sprawl
C. Suburban Society
D. none of above
D. Urban Society
1494. The world’s population is unevenly
1489. Job opportunities caused movement in
spread.
America. People moved from
A. the rural countryside to the city A. True
B. the United States to Mexico B. False

1495. Gentrification D. Most of the 20 cities are now located

A. Is the buying up and renovation of de- in Africa
teriorated urban houses and stores

1500. The poorly planned spread of cities and
B. Creates a decrease in land value suburbs.
C. Does not affect neighborhoods that A. Infill
have been historically inhabited by a cer- B. Gentrification
tain ethnic group
C. Mixed Use Development
D. Only happens in rural areas
D. Urban Sprawl
1496. What is the Social Gospel Movement?
1501. What is the population trend of Mexico
A. Applying Christian values to social City?
problems.
B. Blaming churches for their wrong do-
ing.
C. Annoying church members.
D. none of above
1497. A poorly planned development that

A. Increasing
spreads a city’s population over a wider
and wider geographic area is B. Decreasing
A. industrialization 1502. The suburbs are outside of the city, but
B. urban sprawl they are close. What kind of area is far
from the city?
C. urbanization
A. Urban
D. metropolitan area
B. Suburban
1498. To win elections, political machines de- C. Rural
pended mainly on the of the immi-
grants. D. none of above
A. jobs 1503. Where did you most likely live in 1890
B. votes if your parents worked in a factory like the
one seen in the picture above?
C. housing
D. language
1499. What is the most noticeable geographic

trend in the last 30 years in the most pop-
ulated cities?
A. The 20 most populated cities are now
in MDC’s
B. A larger percent are now in Europe.
C. Most of the 20 cities are now located
in LDC’s A. New York City

B. Atlanta 1508. classifying land areas for various types

C. Chicago of manufacturing, commercial, or residen-
tial development and use
D. Philadelphia
A. Land Cover
1504. The is happening very fast in big B. Land Use
cities like NY, London
C. Zoning
D. Smart Growth
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1509. a zoning ordinance is
A. a law that limits the permitted uses of
land
B. legally adding land to a city
C. a cooperative agency consisting of rep-
A. amenity resentatives
B. urbanization process D. continuous urban complex
C. densely polluted
1510. Which has a lower albedo, an asphalt
D. unemployment parking lot or a snow-covered field?
1505. Urban land use does not typically in- A. Asphalt parking lot
clude B. Snow-covered field
A. farming C. They have the same albedo
B. residential D. More information is needed to answer
C. industrial this question
D. commercial 1511. Urban areas always have problems
with water
1506. How did the American natives feel
about the new immigrants A. false
A. Showed lots of love B. true
B. Felt threatened 1512. Causes of Urbanization (in the United
C. Didn’t care about them States) include all of the following except:
D. none of above A. Improved farm equipment

B. Increased immigration
1507. How does the use of private cars, buses,
and other transportation contribute to ur- C. Migration of African-Americans
ban environmental issues? D. All are causes of Urbanization
A. It reduces pollution in the air. 1513. Groups that were led by a powerful
B. It has no impact on the environment. boss who controlled a network of politi-
C. It increases pollution, especially from cians were called
petroleum-based vehicles. A. Instrument of Change
D. none of above B. Bureaucratic Apparatus

C. Political Machines 1515. Millions of immigrants came to America

D. Underworld Organizations due to-

A. their belief that all people were cre-
1514. What word best describes a run-down ated equal
area of a city with inadequate housing and
a lack of services such as water and sani- B. America providing money to recent im-
tation? migrants to help them provide for their
families
A. Migration
C. the opportunity for jobs due to the
B. Urbanisation growth of industrialization
C. Slum D. many foreign countries erupting in re-
D. Mega-City ligious civil wars

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