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Contents
1 URBAN GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1 URBAN GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. URBAN GEOGRAPHY
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1.1 URBAN GEOGRAPHY
1. Which of the following is not an example 4. Edge cities are suburban areas around a
of a site factor? city.
A. Latitude A. true
B. Fresh Water B. false
C. Roads 5. Centrality relates to all of the following
D. Climate except
E. Elevation A. Christaller
B. economic reach
2. Which of the following is the MAIN CAUSE
C. range of a good
of the Central Place Theory not forming
perfect shapes across the landscape? D. suburbanization
A. Population Distribution 6. What are the centers of business and cul-
B. Flat terrain ture in a society?
A. Farms
C. Uniform Transportation
B. Coasts
D. Even purchasing power
C. Cities
3. The number of houses per unit of land di- D. Recreational areas
minishes as distance from central city in-
creases is 7. Central place theory describes the
A. rank size A. spatial patterns of urban and outlying
areas based on the flow of goods and ser-
B. central place theory
vices
C. density gradient
B. tendency of different ethnic groups to
D. sector model congregate in a single location
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. C 7. A
1.1 URBAN GEOGRAPHY 3
C. tendency of civilizations to form 13. Which urban model includes nodes such as
around certain natural features a port, a university, an airport and a park?

D. outward radiation of cultural patterns
from a central place
E. tendency of wealth to concentrate in
urban core areas
8. Which is a positive effect of urban sprawl? A. sub-saharan African city model
A. there are more affordable houses B. concentric zone model
B. increased pollution C. multiple nuclei
C. destruction of habitats D. sector model
D. more taco bells (this one’s not the right 14. Which of the following is the definition of
answer, but it is true) suburbs?
9. What is the “high point” of a city? Usu- A. Lower density areas that separate res-
ally the most important buildings were put idential and commercial areas from one
there in Greek and Roman cities. another
A. Now B. Higher density areas that separate
B. Forum residential and commercial areas from
one another
C. Acropolis
C. Lower density areas that connect res-
D. Colosseum
idential and commercial areas to each
10. Part of a city dominated by an ethnic group other
such as Chinatown in San Francisco. D. Higher density areas that connect resi-
A. Primate City dential and commercial area to each other
B. Megacity 15. Land that has been used, abandoned and
C. Ethnic Neighborhoods now awaits some new use. Commonly
found across urban areas, particularly in
D. Edge City
the inner city
11. Urban patterns is a concept that looks at A. brownfield site
where and are distributed within B. Dereliction
urban space.
C. Greenfield site
A. People & Persons
D. urbanisation
B. Buildings & Police Stations
C. People & Activities 16. Cities are usually located near what three
factors?
D. Activities & Sports
12. What does zoning regulate in a city?
A. Permitted uses of land
B. Densities of different zones
C. Protection of natural resources
D. All of the above
8. A 9. C 10. C 11. C 12. D 13. C 14. A 15. A 16. B

A. MouintainsTressLabor Force C. monarchy

B. TransportationBodies of waterNatural D. democracy
resources
21. a system of government in which a small
C. Good Climate Good Soil Good Food
group holds power.
D. Bad WeatherBad SoilBad People
A. autocracy
17. A clustering of tall office buildings, shop- B. oligarchy
ping malls, and apartment complexes at
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the intersection of major interstate high- C. monarchy
ways is called D. democracy
A. Suburban sprawl
22. A state whose most populated city has
B. Urban sprawl 12 million in it would have approximately
C. Suburban densification how many people living in the 3rd largest
city if the state follows rank-size rule?
D. Edge cities
A. 3 million
18. Which of the following is a DISADVAN-
TAGE of primate cities? B. 1 million
A. attracts trade internationally C. 9 million
B. centralizes transportation D. 4 million

Explanation:Rank size rule takes the pop-
C. offers high end goods to consumers ulation of the largest settlement (city, ur-
D. pulls most resources from other parts ban area, metropolitan area) and divides
of country it by n. N = the population of the settle-
ment based in its sequential ranking (4th
19. Which statement is NOT true about the in- biggest city should have 1/4th the popula-
ner city? tion of the largest city).
23. Core of a city based on commerical busi-

ness.
A. Industrial Park
B. Recreational Zone
C. Residential Area
A. Bus and railway stations
D. Central Business District
B. Grid iron street pattern
C. Low density buildings 24. Which of the following terms
means:important
D. Cultural/historical buildings, eg muse-
ums and castles A. pedestrian
B. confer
20. a system of government in which leaders
rule with consent of the citizens C. significant
A. autocracy D. anemia
B. theocracy E. subsidies
17. D 18. D 19. C 20. D 21. B 22. D 23. D 24. C 25. A

25. is an economic system in which gov- 31. the minimum number of people needed to
ernment allows private business owners support a service is the
to produce and make a profit from selling

A. median
a wide variety of goods and services.
B. threshold
A. capitalism
C. hinterland
B. mixed
D. range
C. command
D. market 32. Identify the statement that is TRUE.
26. Guardian A. The population of urban areas is de-

creasing due to people leaving urban ar-
A. eas for rural areas.
B. The B. Edge cities are areas dominated by
27. What is a range of solutions to urban large stores, offices and very tall buildings
transport issues? held together by transportation hubs.
A. No solutions to urban transport issues C. Fewer individuals from the suburbs

are using the central business district due
B. Both major infrastructure projects and to the resources that edge cities provide.
planning solutions
D. The greenbelt is used to expand the
C. Major infrastructure projects only sprawl in an urban area.
D. Planning solutions only
33. Mexico is an example of a(n) , because
28. What do geographers call the unequal dis- it is transitioning from a primarily agricul-
tribution of wealth and resources in a spe- tural economy to an economy primarily fo-
cific geographic area cused on manufacturing and industrial ac-
A. economic activity tivities.
B. population density A. agrarian country
C. resource distribution B. more developed country
D. spatial inequality C. newly industrialized country
29. Refers to the start or cradle of modern po- D. less developed country
litical liberty from the medieval people. 34. A port is likely to attract nearby , ac-
A. chivalry cording to the multiple nuclei model
B. charter city A. schools
C. homage B. homes
D. growth of towns C. industries
30. something that contributes to a result D. malls
A. connectivity 35. Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem are all ex-
B. function amples of what kind of site?
C. proportion A. Hilltop
D. factor B. Oasis
26. B 27. B 28. D 29. B 30. D 31. B 32. B 33. C 34. C 35. A
C. Confluence C. Massive city

D. Island D. Sprawling city
36. Cities zone for a variety of reasons such
as to stop gentrification. 41. Which term is defined as the “relationship
between the city and surrounding areas?”
A. True
A. City Analysis
B. False
B. Urban Geography
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37. What are the key elements of successful
urban regeneration projects? C. GIS
A. High crime rates and lack of safety D. GPS
measures
B. Exclusive focus on commercial devel- 42. Which would be a good picture of the Cen-
opment without considering community tral Business District of San Antonio?
needs
C. The key elements of successful urban
regeneration projects include community
engagement, sustainable design, mixed-
use development, public spaces, and eco-
nomic viability.
D. Excessive use of natural resources
and environmental degradation
38. The United Nations defines megacities as A.

cities with million citizens or more.
A. 1
B. 10
C. 30
D. 50 B.
39. rapidly growing communities

A. Leap-frog development
B. Boomburbs
C. Edge City C.
D. Deurbanization
E. Exurbs
40. A country’s largest city in size (over 2X

larger than next city), dominates national
culture, and leads economics. D.
A. Rank size city
B. Primate city
36. B 37. C 38. B 39. B 40. B 41. B 42. D

43. Types of Regions?

A. CBD
B. Innercity
C. Suburbs
A. Informal Regions Functional Region D. Modern Industrial Estate or Retail Cen-
Perceptual Region tre
B. Formal Regions Disfunctional Region 47. What does the word proportion mean?
Perceptual Region
A. refers to the proper age of fossils
C. Formal Regions Functional Region Per- B. refers to the amount of many things
ceptual Region
C. refers to the number of one thing com-
D. Formal Regions Functional Region Pre- pared with the number of another thing
occupied Region D. refers to the properties of chemicals
found in the environment
44. Which of the following is not likely to be
in CBD 48. Increasing public transit is one way to get
people in a metropolitan area to drive less.
A. Office What is public transit?
B. Hospital A. A network of buses, trains, and other
vehicles used for moving passengers.
C. High buildings
B. not allowing people to build develop-
D. Supermarket ments on farmland
C. replacing an abandoned factory with a
45. overlapping urban areas are called: new apartment building
A. hamlet D. when all the 7th graders get in Ms.
Dodor’s beetle and go to Taco Bell
B. town
49. When the models of urban structure de-
C. city veloped in Chicago are applied to Rio de
Janeiro, one conclusion is that
D. megalopolis
A. both cities are located near large
46. Look carefully at the map. The housing lakes.
around Shakestones to the West (left) of B. Rio de Janeiro doesn’t have high in-
the map is in the? come neighborhoods.
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C. the models don’t work in Rio de

Janeiro.
D. the poorest people are located in dif-
ferent areas.
E. Physical geography has not influenced
the distribution of social classes Rio de A. New Urbanism
Janeiro.
B. Exurbanization
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50. A system of government in which one per- C. Urban sprawl
son rules with unlimited power and author- D. Urban infill
ity.
54. What is urban renewal
A. autocracy
A. the redevelopment of the whole city to
B. theocracy make it more modern
C. monarchy B. the redevelopment of part of a city for
D. democracy new landuses
C. the improvement of part of a city by of-
51. Victory Square ten middle class residents, changing the
character of an area
A.
D. repainting, repaving roads and improv-
B. the ing the infrastructure of a city
52. All of the following statements align with 55. Stonehenge

the Central Place Theory EXCEPT
A.
A. people generally go to the nearest B. the
place when consuming goods and/or ser-
vices 56. Buckingham Palace
B. people generally travel great dis- A.
tances only if the price of a good/service B. the
is much lower or unavailable locally
57. Between 175 million and 1 billion people
C. developed countries have numerous
live in , areas that have few consumer
small settlements with small thresholds
services, because neither the city nor the
and ranges
residents can afford them.
D. larger settlements provide consumer
services that have larger thresholds,
ranges, and market areas
E. a large store (Ex:Walmart) are often lo-
cated in smaller settlements due to their
smaller thresholds
53. The rapid spread of a city from its center

is known as A. squatter settlements

B. urban zones 62. What is redlining?

C. public housing A. The exact same thing as prejudice

D. disamenity zones B. Denying loans to people in certain
neighborhoods
58. It is s often difficult to solve regional prob-
C. A wise banking practice
lems/issues because
D. When a neighborhood changes its
character
63. A model of the internal structure of cities,

created by Harris and Ullman, in which so-
cial groups are arranged around in a collec-
tion of nodes of activities
A. Multiple Nuclei Model
A. local government entities are often
B. Concentric Zone Model
fragmented
C. Peripheral Model
B. lack of voter turn-out
D. Sector Model
C. mayors are not knowledgeable about
the issues 64. Which of these events had the greatest im-
D. city and county services may be consol- pact on the growth of cities?
idated A. Construction of highways
59. A economy is an economy in which the B. World War II

government supports and regulates free C. The Cold War
enterprise through decisions that affect D. Invention of the television
the marketplace.
A. mixed 65. A bank would be if they refused to
grant loans to customers in certain urban
B. capitalism areas
C. market A. Blockbusting
D. command B. Filtering
60. Urban means C. Redlining
A. in the city D. Ghettoization
B. in the countryside 66. What is a symbol that shows directions?

A. compass rose
61. Large cities develop many nodes around
which different types of people and activi- B. map key
ties cluster C. scale
A. Peripheral Model D. inset map
B. Multiple Nuclei Model
67. Which of the following is the HIGHEST or-
C. Sector Model der good?
D. Concentric Zone Model A. Chili’s restaurant

B. Movie Theater 72. What do you call it when you refer to the
C. Professional Sports team arrangement of public and private space in
cities?
D. Grocery Store
A. Urban strategies
68. Older city models have defined CBDs at the B. Urban Outfitters
heart of their growth; newer models like
C. Urban structures
can have multiple centers of business
activity D. Urban Outlooks
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A. Concentric Zone Model 73. Smaller cities tend to have more special-
B. Sector Model ized functions, such as specialized teaching
hospitals, than do larger cities.
C. SE Asian City Model
A. true
D. Multiple Nuclei Model
B. false
69. Which of the following was NOT a rea- 74. Kennedy Airport
son for rapid suburbanization in the United
States after the Second World War? A.
B. the
A. Mass production of the automobile
B. Expansion of home construction 75. What is a metropolitan area?
C. Expansion of the interstate highway A. spreading of urban developments on a
system city
D. Availability of low down payment terms B. A region that includes a central city
and long-term mortgages and its surrounding suburbs
E. Reduction in long-distance commuting C. The directness of routes linking pairs

of places
70. Cities attract artists, architects, scientists D. none of above
and intellectual people because they tend
to be a hub of culture and creativity. 76. What is an issue of urban regenera-
tion related to large-scale infrastructure
A. true projects?
B. false A. They do not focus on urban sustainabil-
ity
71. What is north of the picnic area?
B. They have varying costs and benefits
C. They do not focus on improving com-
munities
D. They are not the catalyst for regenera-
tion
77. A central place is a settlement that pro-
A. woods
vides 1 or more services for the population
B. soccer field living around it
C. swimming pool A. True
D. playground B. False

78. What is the best title for the chart in this B. threshold
image? C. range

D. CBD
83. Explain the concept of push and pull factors
in urban migration.
A. Push factors are the reasons why peo-
ple leave a certain place, such as lack
of job opportunities or political instabil-
A. Food Sustainability ity, while pull factors are the reasons why
people are attracted to move to a cer-
B. Food Deserts tain place, such as better job prospects or
C. Food Inequality higher quality of life.
D. Food Distribution B. Push and pull factors have no impact
on urban migration.
79. Which of these is true?
C. Pull factors are the reasons why peo-
A. The concentric zone model has no tran- ple leave a certain place, such as lack of
sition zone. job opportunities or political instability.
B. The multiple nuclei model has a single D. Pull factors are the reasons why peo-
clearly defined core. ple move to a certain place, such as better
C. The sector model is highly influenced job prospects or higher quality of life.
by transit networks. 84. A settlement is purposefully laid out
D. The central business district is along a with a network of transportation routes
ring highway in the galactic model. A. Linear
80. True or false:Subsistence farming mostly B. Cluster
takes place in MDCs. C. Grid
A. True D. none of above
B. False 85. According to the range concept of Central
Place Theory, people should be willing to
81. The basic structure of services, installa-
travel far distances for and only will-
tions, and facilities needed to support in-
ing to travel short distances for
dustrial, agricultural and other economic
development A. a cup of coffee; a wedding
A. Roads B. groceries; a flight out of an airport
B. Hospitals C. a concert; a fast food restaurant
D. all of the above
C. Infrastructure
D. Sewers 86. Define the term ‘urban geography’.
A. Urban geography is the study of urban
82. The minimum market needed to bring a areas, including their spatial and social as-
new business into a city, or keep it run- pects, as well as the interaction between
ning is called: people and their environment within the
A. centrality city.

B. Urban geography is the study of rural

areas and their spatial aspects.
C. Urban geography is the study of an-
cient civilizations and their historical as-
pects.
D. Urban geography is the study of A. redlining
oceanography and marine life in urban ar-
B. urban redevelopment
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eas.
C. gentrification
87. MKAD D. eminent domain
A.
92. Which is NOT an essential service?
B. the A. Clean water
88. The location of a place relative to other B. Sewage
places “connections” C. Electricity
A. Site D. Entertainment
B. Situation 93. more than 20 million people
89. A model of North American urban areas A. Megacity

consisting in an inner city surrounded by B. Metacity
large suburban residential and business ar-
eas tied together by a belt way or ring 94. Which of the following is not the charac-
road. teristic of wholesale, light manufacturing
area?
A. Peripheral Model
A. Small amount of materials
B. New Donut Model
B. Small amount of space
C. Filtering C. Offer wholesale goods like clothes
D. Urban Area Model D. Far away from CBD
90. What are the three pre-conditions need to 95. What is the term for the operation of
be in place in order for cities to form? specialized commercial farms for efficiency
and profits?
A. Ecology, Technology, and Power
A. Agribusiness
B. Trading, Religion, and Ecology
B. Urbanization
C. Technology, Religion, and Trading
C. Domestication
D. Religion, Ecology, and Power
D. Pastoralism
91. Banks might consider giving loans to those 96. Compared to the United Kingdom, the
who want to purchase and improve homes amount of sprawl in the United States is
in a certain urban area too risky so they
may refuse loans in certain districts. This A. greater.
practice is known as B. less

C. about the same. 102. Minimum market sized refers so

D. better controlled. A. threshold

E. declining B. range
C. urban morphology
97. Leaning Tower of Pisa
D. situation
A.
103. As a result of high land costs, the Ameri-
B. the can CBD is characterized by
98. a person who gives financial or other sup- A. less intensive land use
port to a person, organization, cause, or B. low range
activity
C. construction of skyscrapers
A. factor
D. sprawl
B. structure
104. Great Wall of China
C. patron
A.
D. proportion
B. the
99. Which of Borchert’s stages involved slow, 105. Migration from rural areas to urban ar-
primitive overland and waterway trans- eas is leading to rapid population growth
port? in
A. Sail-Wagon A. inner cities in developed countries.
B. Iron Horse B. suburban areas in developed coun-
C. Steel Rail tries.
C. megacities in peripheral countries.
D. Auto Air Amenity
D. rural areas in peripheral countries.
100. Which early city in West Africa was a cen-
ter of trade and religion? 106. This key characteristic of urban areas is
true of most major cities of the world.
A. Timbuktu
A. Most cities exist along rivers and sea-
B. Merely coasts.
C. Tenochtitlan B. Most are in areas that are not suitable
D. Xian for agriculture.
C. Most exist in the tropics.
101. What are the environmental and social D. Most of the fastest growing are in ar-
problems facing cities in the developed and eas with high standards of living.
developing world? Explanation:The fastest growing cities are
A. Lack of public transportation in LDCs, not MDCs.
B. Overcrowding and homelessness 107. In U.S. cities, the underclass is
C. Excessive green spaces A. clustered in inner-city neighborhoods.
D. High employment rates B. dispersed throughout the city.

C. clustered in suburbs. C. the number of people in each house-

D. distributed uniformly in the city. hold is much higher than in other places.
E. distributed across the commuters D. the buildings in those cities tend to be

zone. taller than those in other cities.
108. What % of people in India and China live 113. Climate, Fresh water, Latitude, Soil qual-
in cities? ity are examples of
A. 20% A. Site
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B. 30% B. Situation
C. 40% 114. The rank size rule applies in a country. Its
D. 50% largest city is 8 million. What is its 4th
largest city?
109. How much of the world’s population live
A. 7 million
in cities?
A. More than 50% B. 6 million
B. 50% C. 4 million
C. Less than 50% D. 2 million
D. none of above 115. Zoning laws can help organize a city into
different districts.
110. In U.S. cities, the underclass is
A. True
A. clustered in inner city neighborhoods
B. False
B. distributed uniformly through the city
C. disperse throughout the city 116. What part of the metropolitan area is a
suburb most likely to be located in?
D. clustered in suburbs
111. The differences between urban and rural

areas include social heterogeneity, large
size, and:
A. Low density
B. Crime rate
C. High density
A. the rural fringe
D. Poverty rate
B. the urban core
112. The area from Washington, D.C. to
Boston, Massachusetts, is sometimes re- C. the urban fringe
ferred to as a megalopolis because D. no
A. The cities are located along major bod-
117. Covent Garden (a district)
ies of water
A.
B. the area is a continuous chain of urban
development between the cities. B. the

118. Which of the following is NOT a situation 122. It is known as the longest continuous civ-
characteristic? ilization.

A. Transportation routes A. Indus Valley
B. Distance to other towns B. Northern China
C. Sitting on Swampland C. Mesoamerican Cities
D. Farmland outside the city D. Imperial Rome
119. In a economy, habit and custom de- 123. A group of cities that have grown into a
termine the rules for all economic activity, large, built up area
and behavior is defined by the customs of
their elders and ancestors. A. Are known as world cities.
A. traditional B. Is known as a megalopolis.
B. market C. Is known as a metropolitan area.
C. command D. All of the above.
D. capitalism E. None of these options.
120. What part of the metropolitan area is A 124. A process of converting a neighborhood
pointing to? from low-income to middle-class is
A. blockbusting.
B. filtering
C. gentrification
D. redlining
E. zoning
A. urban core 125. A environmental problem that cities face

B. rural fringe is
C. urban fringe A. noise and air pollution
D. none of above B. crime
C. traffic jams
121. Which of the following is NOT something
that describes the relationship of a hinter- D. subsidies
land and a city?
126. This type of service provides services to
A. farmers sell products to a city’s mar-
individual customers who desire them and
ket
can pay for them.
B. people come to shop in the city for busi-
A. Public & Semi-Public Services
ness
B. Business Services
C. people can walk to the downtown for
work C. Consumer Services
D. city newspapers and tv are viewed D. none of above

127. All of the following are true regarding 130. Legally adding land area to a city in the
Central Place Theory EXCEPT United States.
A. a central place is a market center for A. Annexation
the exchange of goods and services by B. Invation
the people attracted from the surrounding
C. Finders keepers
area
D. No takeies backsies
B. businesses in central places compete
with each other, which creates an irregu- 131. Sixth Avenue
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lar pattern of settlements
A.
C. because most people prefer to get
B. the
services from the nearest location, con-
sumers near the center of the circle ob- 132. Which type of agriculture involves herd-
tain services from local establishments ing animals and using them for milk, meat,
D. the closer to the periphery of the circle, and other products?
the greater the percentage of consumers A. Pastoralism
who will choose to obtain services from B. Shifting Cultivation
other nodes
C. Market-Oriented Agriculture
E. a market area (or hinterland) is a good
D. Agribusiness
example of a nodal region
133. Highway 65
128. Which among the following is NOT a gift
of the Nile River? A.
A. Served as a vital transportation route B. the
B. Flooded around the same time each 134. What is the core of an urban area? What
year surrounds it?
C. Occasional drought A. downtown; farms
D. None of the options B. central exurbs; central city
129. What does urbanization (n) mean? C. central city; suburbs
D. suburbs; CBD
135. Which of the following scenarios is best
explained by the concept of range in
Christaller’s central place theory?
A. A major department store opens in a
small town because the town does not
A. the movement of people from the coun- have any major retailers competing for
tryside to towns and cities business.
B. the movement of people out of cities to B. A consumer purchases gasoline at the
the countryside nearest town but travels to the nearest
C. an increase in the number of people liv- city to purchase a new car.
ing in towns and cities C. A high rate of rural-to-urban migration
D. an increase in the number of people occurs in a developing country as people
moving to the countryside seek jobs in cities.

D. A consumer purchases a home in the C. free business development

suburbs rather than in the nearest city be- D. cultural diffusion
cause the cost of land is lower in the sub-

urbs. 140. Which statement does NOT apply to a
E. A tech company is headquartered in a modern industrial estate?
more developed country, but its customer
service center is located in a less devel-
oped country.
136. Who came up with the Central Place The-

ory?
A. Ravenstein
B. Christaller A. On the outskirts of the town on a green-
C. Wallerstein field site.
D. Malthus B. It often has tourist information cen-

tres and museums
137. how much of the world’s population live C. Near main roads for access.
in cities?
D. It is away from the congestion of the
A. more than 50% CBD and there is room to expand.
B. less than 50%
141. What country is #1
C. 50%
D. none of above
138. What part of the metropolitan area is B

pointing to?
A. Liberia
B. Somalia
A. urban core C. Ethiopia
B. rural fringe D. Nigeria
C. urban fringe E. Rwanda
D. mitochondria 142. Human geographers use as a more
precise term for “downtown.”
139. What do countries like Western Europe
that are democratic socialist offer their
people?
A. Basic human rights
B. collective land ownership

A. Central Business District (CBD) C. No pollution

B. Urban Business District D. Congestion
C. Service Business District
148. The following were reasons to the col-
D. City Business District lapse of the Harappan civilization, EXCEPT
143. A historic activity center built over an one:
older city or town is known as a (n) A. Earthquakes
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A. uptown edge city B. Floods
B. greenfield edge city C. Invasion
C. boomer edge city
D. Disintegrated governance
D. entrance edge city
149. which urban model is pictured here?
144. What problems can result from the lack
of fresh food?
A. People end up spending more money
and gaining weight from fast food.
B. Convenience stores can go out of busi-
ness because they are not selling fresh
foods. A. multiple nuclei model
C. Communities argue and fail to work to- B. concentric zone model
gether to solve common problems.
C. sector model
D. Larger grocery stores go out of busi-
ness because people choose to shop at D. none of above
convenience stores.
150. Gentrification helps low income earners
145. Windsor Castle but hurts high income earners.
A. A. True
B. the B. False
146. The attractions of shopping malls include
151. The following are the institutions that
all but which of the following?
lead to the birth of a more complex soci-
A. frequent concerts and exhibitions ety known as civilization, EXCEPT one:
B. generous parking lots A. Agricultural development
C. place to meet friends B. Permanent mud-brick dwellings
D. sheltered environments
C. City wall development
E. walking distance from homes
D. Specialized workers
147. Which of the following is not the charac-
teristic of CBD? 152. MacDonald’s
A. Tall building A.
B. High population density B. the

153. “White Flight” in the 1950S is most as- 158. The area of London shown on the West
sociated with what? (left) of the map is the?

A. Blockbusting
B. Redlining
C. Filtering
D. Gentrification
154. Louvre Museum

A.
A. CBD
B. the
B. Innercity
155. What country is #3 C. Suburbs
D. Modern Industrial Estates or Retail
Centre
159. The Central Business District (CBD) is also

known as
A. Downtown
B. Suburb
C. Uptown
A. Liberia D. Rural Area
B. Somalia 160. A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities
C. Ethiopia is achieved through
D. Nigeria A. blockbusting.
E. Rwanda B. filtering
C. zoning
156. Which settlement where the houses are
close together and has a central feature? D. greenbelts
A. Circular E. busing
B. Nuclear 161. A country’s second largest city is half as
C. Linear big as it’s largest city is
D. Dispersed A. rank size
B. concentric zone model
157. Which city is known for its well-
developed public transportation system C. primate city
and sustainability focus? D. density gradient
A. Barcelona, Spain 162. The city in the Indus valley are con-
B. Singapore structed in which manner?
C. Curitiba, Brazil A. Orthogonal Matrix Grid Plan
D. None of the above B. Uniform and well-planned grid pattern

C. Hoyt Sector 167. What is a megalopolis?

D. Peripheral A. central cities and their rural hinter-
lands
163. Which of the following refers to the size
and functional complexity of cities? B. consolidated metropolitan statistical
area
A. Multiplier effect
C. an area where the urbanized areas of
B. Urban hierarchy adjacent cities overlap
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C. Basic-nonbasic ratio
D. regional government federation
D. Threshold ratio
168. A economy is one in which businesses
E. The Sector model
are privately owned and production and
164. High rents and land shortage discourage prices are determined by supply and de-
2 main activities in the CBD-industrial and mand.
A. traditional
A. Restaurants B. market
B. Hotels C. command
C. Law Firms D. mixed
D. Residential
169. Who created the concentric zone model?
165. In core area cities the practice of buying A. Thomas Jefferson
up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing
which resulted in the raising of housing val- B. Carl Marx
ues and a social change in neighborhoods C. Albert Einstein
is called
D. Ernest Burgess
170. A ring of land maintained by parks, agri-

culture, or other types of open space to
limit the sprawl of an urban area
A. Greenbelt
A. public housing. B. Urban Land
B. gentrification. C. Green Land Usage
C. white flight. D. Sprawl Limitation
D. urban renewal.
171. Which of these is not a processes of in-
166. The strength of an urban center to attract dustrial revolution?
producers and consumers to its facilities is A. Changes in the power supply.
called:
B. The shift from a production system
A. range based around small workshops to a fac-
B. threshold tory system.
C. centrality C. Technical improvements in machinery.
D. CBD D. The factory system required.

172. Newark is in the metropolitan area. 175. Characteristics of immediate location

A. Site

B. Situation
C. City-state
D. Metropolitan Area
E. Nodal region
176. Squatter settlements in Least Developed

Countries (LDCs) cities are usually located
A. along major highways
B. on the outskirts of the urban area
C. in warehouse districts
A. Boston D. adjacent to industrial areas
B. Philadelphia 177. The Harappa and Mohenjo Daro are the
C. New York biggest cities that developed in
D. none of above A. Tigris & Euphrates
B. Along the banks of the Nile River
C. Indus Valley
D. Yangtze River
178. A transportation problem that cities face

is
A. noise and air pollution
B. crime
C. traffic jams
D. subsidies
A. Liberia
179. What is a list of facts with names and
B. Somalia numbers?
C. Ethiopia A. title
D. Nigeria B. index
E. Rwanda C. inset map
D. compass rose
174. Where is the CBD located?
A. Beside the new business disrict 180. Name three things that a world city has.
A. large population, major international
B. the oldest part of a city
airport, advanced transportation system
C. Outskirts of a city
B. large populations, small working class,
D. Centre of a town/city navigable water ways

C. major international airports but few 185. Gorky Park

ways for locals to move around and mu-
A. the
seums dedicated to the arts
D. advanced transportation system, no in- B.
ternational airports but navigable water
ways 186. What type of economic activity do coal
miners perform?
181. What kinds of challenges come with a
growing urban area? A. primary
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A. Overcrowding, crime, poverty, social B. secondary
conflict, and pollution
C. tertiary
B. very few challeges occur.
D. quaternary
C. social services are very slow to adapt
D. people are isolated from each other 187. The movement of people from cities to
and grouped by social classes the suburbs is best known as
182. What is the purpose of urban models? A. Ruralism
A. Explains where different types of peo- B. Suburbism
ple live
C. Urbanization
B. Explains why people live where they
live D. Sector Model
C. Depends on the use of Census Data
188. Areas of open land with few people,
D. All of the above homes, and businesses
183. To deal with the financial problems in A. Urban
some areas of the cities, American city
governments B. Suburbs
A. reduce taxes. C. City
B. reduce services. D. Rural
C. receive more grants from the federal
government. 189. What is west of the ice cream stand?
D. establish semi-independent boroughs.
E. all of these
184. Which urban model best explains the

spatial impact of automobiles and the
construction of interstate highways on
metropolitan areas in the United States?
A. playground
A. concentric ring
B. swimming pool
B. peripheral/galactic city model
C. sector model C. picnic area
D. multiple nuclei model D. woods

190. Identify pull factors D. they are low-income regions where

A. Lower standard of living the nearest grocery stores are hundreds
of miles away

B. Job opportunities, better living condi-
tions, higher standard of living, political 195. Hyde Park
stability, and better education are exam- A. the
ples of pull factors.
B.
C. Worse living conditions when com-
pared to the original living situation of the 196. When several cities grow together to
person form an almost continuous city, it is called
a
D. Lack of job opportunities, poor infras-
tructure, limited connection A. Metropolitan Area
B. Exurb
191. What empire is the successor of the Ro-
man empire? C. Megalopolis
A. Sumerian Empire D. none of above
B. Akkadian Empire 197. When two or more metropolitan areas

merge what is created?
C. Babylonian Empire
A. Voltron
D. Byzantine Empire
B. Megalopolis
192. Metacities contain C. Greater Metropolitan Area
A. 5 million people D. Urban Sprawl
B. 10 million people
198. Which statement is NOT true about the
C. 15 million people innercity?
D. 20 million people
193. What is the fastest growing urban area

over the last 30 years?
A. Tokyo
B. Mexico City
C. Atlanta
D. In front of Shen A. It has terraced or tenement housing
194. All of the following are true regarding B. It has high density housing
food deserts EXCEPT C. It is a mixture of old and new industry
A. they are found in areas with a substan- D. It has lots of woodland and lochs
tial amount of low-income residents
199. How can the CBD be identified on a map?
B. they are created when supermarkets
A. Many churches
avoid locating in low-income neighbor-
hoods B. Grid-iron street pattern
C. they create hardships for low-income C. Densely packed buildings
residents who do not own cars D. All of the above

200. The recent trend of metropolitan resi- 206. Times Square

dents moving to rural areas and small A.
towns is referred to as
B. the
A. Out-migration
207. The United States is an example of an(n)
B. Interregional migration
A. industrializing country
C. Intraregional migration
B. more developed country
D. Incorporation
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C. newly industrialized country
201. New Urbanism D. less developed country
A. encourages spraw
208. A is a political unit touching the bor-
B. discourages spraw ders of the central city
C. only happens in big cities A. Metropolitan Area
D. none of above B. Suburb
202. The physical qualities of the original loca- C. CBD
tion for a city D. none of above
A. Situational characteristics 209. Which of the following is a correct state-
B. Absolute location ment about the major cities of the world?
C. Relative location A. Most are found in areas that are not
very suitable for agriculture.
D. Site characteristics
B. Most primate cities are located in the
203. What type of land use dominates on the United States and western Europe.
periphery of the Latin American Model? C. They are concentrated between the
A. squatter settlements tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capri-
B. industrial activity corn.
D. Most are located on rivers or sea-
C. commercial
coasts.
D. middle class residential
E. The world’s fastest-growing cities are
204. What was the name of Greece’s largest found in areas with the highest standards
city? of living.
A. Rome 210. The following are advantages of having
B. Cicily a diverse city EXCEPT?
C. Crete A. Create opportunities
D. Athens B. Promoting creativity

C. Political disorder
205. True or False:Because resources are
D. Variety of perspectives
evenly distributed, trade routes have al-
ways been important. 211. Trafalgar Square
A. True A.
B. False B. the

212. The five hearth of Urbanization are

Mesopotamia, Indus valley, Mesoamerica,
Nile river and ?

D.
A. Huang he
B. Urruk
C. Sumerian 215. The size and complexity of a city’s func-
tions (services provided, transit networks
D. Lagash connected to, etc.) contribute to its place
in the
213. How does a city develop in the concentric
A. Threshold ratio
zone model?
B. Urban hierarchy
A. sections/sectors
C. Multiplier effect
B. nodes of influence D. Sector model
C. rings
216. This type of service facilitates the activi-
D. corridors ties of other businesses
214. Which picture shows a residential area? B. Business Services
C. Consumer Services
D. none of above
217. The maximum distance people are willing

to travel for a service is the
A. hinterland
B. range
C. threshold
A. D. market area
E. friction of distance
218. What is used to determine the geograph-

ical extent of influence for an urban area
in the U.S.?
B. A. Metropolitan Statistical Areas
B. Micropolitan Statistical Area
C. Census blocks
D. Census tracts
C. 219. 42nd Str.

A.
B. the

220. Outlying area or community around a city 225. refers to the location of a place relative
to other structures
A. Urban
A. Site
B. Suburb
B. Situation
C. Rural
C. City-state
D. City
221. Central Place Theory is associated with:
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E. Nodal region
A. Threshold and filtering
226. When suburbs and exurbs grow around a
B. Range and filtering central city what is created?
C. Threshold and range A. Megalopolis
D. Range and zoning ordinances B. Metropolitan Area
C. Megacity
222. Which of the following best describes an
urban area with more than 50, 000 resi- D. State
dents?
227. A system of government in which a hered-
A. Urban cluster itary king or queen holds supreme power.
B. Urbanized area A. autocracy
223. Which factors are examined in urban ge- B. theocracy

ography? C. monarchy
A. Social factors D. democracy
B. Economic factors 228. What creation really allowed for the
C. Environmental factors 4th stage (auto-air amenity) of Borchert’s
model to happen?
D. All of the above
A. Steel
224. The area between a city (urban are) and B. Manufacturing
a rural area is called:
C. Locomotives
D. Gasoline powered engines
229. A person is willing to travel only a

short distance for needs such as milk, but
long distances for specialized health care.
What concept explains the previous state-
ment?
A. metropolitan A. range
B. suburbs B. threshold
C. housing C. hinterland
D. none of above D. median

230. Hermitage A. Liberia

A. B. Somalia

B. the C. Ethiopia
231. Which of the following is paired INCOR- D. Nigeria
RECTLY? E. Rwanda
A. Consumer services = department
237. According to the concentric zone model, a
stores, teachers
city develops in a series of
B. Business services = banking, real es-
A. corridors
tate
B. rings
C. Public services = local, state, and fed-
eral employees C. nodes
D. Consumer services = lawyers, engi- D. sectors
neers
238. It is concerned with the relations among
E. Business services = trucking, ware- people, and between people and their en-
housing vironments, in cities and towns across the
232. When you’re talking about the specific lo- world.
cation of a city and what it’s like there, A. City
you are talking about its B. Urban Geography
A. Site C. Geography
B. Situation D. Human Geography
233. Vatican Museum 239. Mir Castle Complex
A. the A.
B.
B. the
234. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
240. What do you call the system of canals
A. leading from the river to the fields devoted
B. the for agriculture?
A. Aqueducts
235. Marc Chagall Museum
B. Bathhouses
A.
B. the C. Irrigation
D. Straits
241. Which type of agriculture is characterized
by growing crops for personal use and only
selling the surplus?
A. Subsistence Agriculture
B. Shifting Cultivation
C. Market-Oriented Agriculture
D. Agribusiness

242. The study of how people use space in 247. Which of these is NOT a function of
cities is called what? cities/towns?
A. Geography A. Security/Defense
B. Economic Geography B. Trade Centers
C. Urban Geography C. Government Administration
D. Rural Geography D. Culture Management
243. How did the construction of I-94 affect 248. The following is a picture of which urban
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the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul? land use model?
A. it brought it closer together
B. it destroyed the neighborhood
C. it moved it to the East Side of St. Paul
D. it made it bigger
244. Which urban zone is shown in the pic-

ture? A. sector model
B. concentric zone
C. multiple nuclei
D. none of above
249. What basic land use pattern is used for
private business and the buying and sell-
ing of retail products?
A. CBD
A. Industrial
B. Innercity
B. Residential
C. Suburbs
C. Commercial
D. Edge of town (new industrial estates
and retail) D. Suburban
245. Region with the fastest growing Megaci- 250. A primate city such as Mexico City is
ties A. always located in the center of its
A. Europe country for maximum accessibility
B. U.S.A B. more than twice the size of any other
city in its country and dominant economi-
C. South and East Asia cally and culturally
D. Africa C. most likely to share its rank size with
246. Which of these is a major effect of rural at least one other city in the country
decline in Mexico? D. always a national capital serving as
A. falling crime the seat of government and industrial cen-
ter of the country
B. rising living standards
E. much larger than the cities in any
C. increased urbanization neighboring country and serves as the re-
D. decreased spatial inequality gion’s financial capital

251. What type of site is found where two Explanation:Post-industrial cities often
rivers flow into one? make use of former industrial buildings
and structures (High Line, NY; brownfield

A. Harbor
redevelopment); Manufacturing still ex-
B. Confluence ists, but is typically now on the exterior of
C. Fall Line the city; Services have replaced manufac-
turing as the primary economic base for
D. Oasis
post-industrial cities. Technology sectors
252. Which statement does not describe the do not require compactness
suburbs?
255. Which is NOT a characteristic of retail ser-
vices that are located in CBDs?
A. Shops and offices locate here

A. They are consumer businesses with a
B. Surrounded by green land, woodland
high threshold
and lochs.
B. They are consumer businesses with a
C. Nearby schools for children.
high range
D. Low levels of air pollution as far away
C. They are consumer businesses who
from CBD traffic.
serve CBD workers
253. employment sector that includes service D. They are consumer businesses that
industries, such as health care, offices, fi- sell only expensive merchandise
nancial services and retailing
256. What is gentrification?
A. tertiary sector
A. when a decaying area is modernised
B. qaternary sector
and improved, the cost of living there in-
C. industrial sector creases and the original inhabitants are
D. none of above forced out
B. when a decaying area is left to deteri-
254. Post-industrial cities have characteristics orate, the cost of living there decreases
that are largely composed of
A. Only new structures, as old industrial 257. The CBD, in general, is the easiest part
buildings cannot be used of the city to reach from the rest of the
region.
B. Very few companies working in manu-
facturing A. True
C. A high-density, compact city to make B. False

technology businesses more efficient 258. Which of the following settlement types
D. A large amount of offices that serve is likely to use the largest percentage of
technology and information services. land space for residents?

A. town 264. What does the word fallow mean?

B. suburb A. Planting the same crop every year
C. hamlet B. Land that can be farmed
D. physical city C. Leaving a field unproductive to allow
the soil to recover
259. Sydney Opera House
D. None of the above
A.
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265. Which 2 of these are much more likely to
B. the
happen in an urban area compared to a ru-
260. Mixed use development, front porches, ral area?
accessible green spaces, and walkability A. Lack of access to clean water
are all features of which sustainable de-
B. Traffic jams
sign initiative?
C. Environmental degradation
A. Zero growth
D. Noise pollution
B. Leapfrog development
C. New Urbanism 266. Retailing, Wholesaling, Education, Enter-
tainment, Recreation, Residential, com-
D. Transit-oriented development
mercial, industrial, Religious, Government,
261. A settlement is usually found along Social services are fuctions found in a
the length of a resource, such as a river.
A. Linear
B. Cluster
C. Grid
D. none of above
262. In a economy, the government owns

or directs the means of production and con-
trols the distribution of goods. A. Township
A. mixed B. Mall
B. command C. School
C. capitalism D. City
D. market
267. Which of the following terms
263. Which of the following is considered as means:government payments
the birthplace of the Chines civilization? A. pedestrian
A. Tigris & Euphrates River B. confer
B. Nile River C. significant
C. Huang He River D. anemia
D. Indus Valley E. subsidies

268. Counterurbanization happens when peo- 273. Which of the following services likely has
ple move away from settlements due to a longest range?
dissatisfaction

A. grocery store
A. t B. pharmacy
B. f C. professional baseball game
269. Heavy industry and high-class housing of- D. chiropractor

ten exist in the same neighborhoods. E. fast food restaurant
A. True 274. Which of the following groups would
B. False most likely engage in the gentrification of
an older residential neighborhood?
270. A ring of land maintained as parks, agri- A. University students on limited incomes
culture, or other types of open space to
B. Double-income households without
limit sprawl in an urban area
children
A. Green barrier
C. People above age sixty-five on limited
B. Rust belt incomes
C. Smart growth D. Double-income households with chil-
dren
D. Greenbelt
E. Recent immigrants on limited incomes
271. What is Urban Geography?
275. Gentrification changes the character of
A. The study of how people use space in the neighborhood
cities
A. True
B. The study of how cities spread across B. False
countries
C. The study of how people leave cities 276. If a country’s largest city has 1, 000,
for the countryside 000 inhabitants and the second largest
city has 200, 000 inhabitants, the country
D. The study of how cities attract people follows what distribution?
to live there
A. central place theory
272. Which of the following groups is most B. economic base
likely to see gentrification as a positive C. the primate city rule
thing?
D. the rank-size rule
A. a family living in an urban area for
cheap E. the gravity model
B. a wealthy couple looking to move into 277. Which of the following is paired INCOR-
the city RECTLY?
C. employees of a small business located A. Gas station = low threshold
in the city B. High-end department store = low
D. residents of a part of the city that is threshold
steeped in culture C. Hospital = high threshold

D. Fast food restaurant = low threshold 282. London Underground

E. Professional sports arena = high A.
threshold B. the
278. What is the role of cities according to Cen- 283. is the substantial exchange of goods
tral Place Theory? between cities, states, or countries.
A. political capitals A. metropolitan
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B. industrial centers B. megalopolis
C. transportation hubs C. commerce
D. providers of goods and services D. none of above
279. A process by which banks designate an 284. What is the term for the land closest to
area within which they refuse to lend urban areas that has the highest value?
money for improvements is
A. Central Business District (CBD)
A. blockbusting.
B. Edge City
B. filtering
C. Subsistence Agriculture
C. gentrification
D. Intensive Farming
D. redlining
285. Walter Christaller developed the
E. zoning
280. The maximum distance people will travel
B. industrial revolution
to a central place to buy a service or good
is called: C. rank-size rule
A. centrality D. gravity model
B. threshold 286. Why is urban sprawl considered to be a
C. range problem?
D. megalopolis A. it preserves green space
B. it increases traffic
281. The following are reasons that encour-
aged the second urban revolution, EXCEPT: C. it preserves the character of the com-
munity
A. Second agricultural revolution that im-
proved food production and created a D. it causes urban crime rates to rise
larger surplus
287. This type of service provides security and
B. Industrialization, which encouraged protection for all services and businesses.
growth of cities near industrial resources
C. The use of the assembly line among
factories B. Business Services
D. Development of computing softwares
and mainframes D. none of above

288. cities generally considered to play an im- 293. a system of government in which those
portant role in the global economic system who rule are regarded as divinely inspired

A. Urban Sprawl A. autocracy
B. connectivity B. theocracy
C. world cities C. monarchy
D. function D. democracy
289. States who have an urban settlement 294. The number of customers necessary for a
that dominates politically, economically, business to succeed is the
socially, and that hosts at least 2x as A. range
many people as the next largest urban
settlement follow which “rule” for urban B. threshold
ranking? C. carrying capacity
A. Conurbation rule D. vernacular region
B. Primate city rule 295. What do you call the fortresses that
C. Rank size rule housed assembly halls, granaries and pub-
lic baths?
D. Edge city rule
A. Citadel-walled Fortress
290. What is the term for the process of hu-
B. Pyramid
mans learning how to grow plants and
tame animals for their own use? C. Ziggurat
A. Domestication D. None of the options
B. Urbanization 296. What is the unrestricted growth of hous-
C. Agribusiness ing, commercial developments and roads
over large expenses of land, with little
D. Pastoralism
concern for urban planning?
291. What does the multiple nuclei model ex- A. Rural Sprawl
plain? B. Urban Sprawl
A. that a city has more than one center C. Community Planning
B. that the city has more than one center D. None of the above
but its center can be easily found
C. that a city has only one center 297. Richmond, VA is an example of what kind
of site?
D. that a city has no center at all
A. Confluence
292. In general, higher status famlies in the B. Harbor
U.S. are more likely to live farther away
from a city center while lower status peo- C. Peninsula
ple tend to live closer to the city center. D. Fall Line
A. true 298. Yuppies or young urban professionals are
B. false moving into walkable neighborhoods that

have a variety of houses and jobs. This is 303. Pentagon

known as
A.
A. New Urbanism
B. the
B. Gentrification
C. Development 304. is a type of political conflict that in-
spires fear and includes any violent and
D. Urbanization
destructive act committed to intimidate a
299. Urban sprawl is people or a government.
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A. development of countryside A. Socialism
B. unplanned, unorganized spreading of B. Anarchism
cities
C. Syndicalism
C. organized, planned spreading of sub-
urbs D. Terrorism
D. when countryside stretches into the 305. It is made up of different cities with cer-
cities tain characteristics of cultural and techno-
logical developments.
300. A primate city is when the largest city in
a country is the size of the next largest A. City
city
B. Civilization
A. Twice
C. Dynasty
B. Triple
D. Urban
C. Half
D. Quadruple 306. The greatest distance a customer will
travel to purchase a good or service is the
301. Megacities have a population of ?
A. range
A. Over 9, 000
B. threshold
B. Over 10 million
C. Over 50 million C. carrying capacity
D. Over 100 million D. vernacular region
302. Identify which statement is false. 307. Which of the following is the LOWEST or-
A. In a developed country more than 75% der good?
of people live in a rural area. A. Chili’s restaurant
B. Urbanization is rapid in a developing B. Movie theater
country.
C. Grocery store
C. Urban growth is slow in a developed
country. D. Gas station
D. Many of the world’s largest cities are
308. Bolshoi Theatre
found in developing countries.
A.
E. In a developing country, less than half
of people live in cities. B. the

309. What has made Istanbul vulnerable? 314. Urban areas in the USA are divided into
that each contain about 5000 people,
A. its low crime rate
and often correspond to existing neighbor-

B. its international airports hood boundaries.
C. its public transportation system
D. its desirable location
310. Why has transport become a key issue in

many cities and how can it be best man-
aged?
A. To increase traffic congestion A. urban tracts
B. To improve urban planning B. subdivisions
C. To increase pedestrianisation C. census tracts
D. To promote car pool D. social area tracts
315. Coliseum
311. Based on a person’s free will and initia-
tive, which could involve weighing options A.
and choices. B. the
A. Voluntary migration
316. Walter Christaller’s Central Place Theory
B. Involuntary migration explains how a provides services and
C. Pull factors functions to its .
D. Push factors A. settlement, hinterland

B. hinterland, city
312. Where can you especially see diversity
C. person, home
represented?
D. rural areas, urban areas
A. Laws
B. Farming 317. the area surrounding a service from
which customers are attracted is the
C. The Arts
A. range
D. Manufacturing
B. threshold
313. Busy streets, traffic, many people walk- C. hinterland
ing, and noise are all descriptors of
D. median
318. What are political units that touch the

borders of a central city?
A. Townships
B. Territories
A. urban area C. Exurbs
B. rural area D. Suburbs

319. Identify the statement that is FALSE. 323. Racial Segregation was increased due to
A. A metropolitan area includes a city and A. white linings
its surrounding built-up areas. B. red lining
B. Cities around the world function in very C. integration
different ways.
D. all of the above
C. Central business districts tend to be lo-
cated in suburbs. 324. Cities zone for a variety of reasons such
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D. Rural areas tend to be further away as to regulate the use and location of build-
from the city center than the suburbs. ings
A. True
320. Which of the following defines CBD?
B. False
A. Part of the city which does not contains
the principal commercial streets but con- 325. The rapid growth in the size and number
tains the main public buildings of large cities is called
B. Part of the city which contains some of A. Metropolitan Growth
the principal commercial streets and main
B. urbanization
public buildings
C. Gentrification
C. Part of the city which contains the mi-
nor commercial streets and minor public D. none of above
buildings
326. In the U.S., these areas have at least
D. Area within a city with the highest ac- 50, 000 people in a county and must be
cessibility plus having a greater variety adjacent to other counties with high pop-
and concentration of specialized goods ulations and a large number of residents
and services than any other area. working in the central city’s county.
321. What is the name given to the idea that A. Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
private individuals or groups have the B. Metropolitan statistical arena (MSA)
right to own property or businesses.
C. Neopolitan statistical area (MSA)
A. socialism
D. DINKS
B. communism
C. free enterprise 327. The largest cities in the world are in de-
veloped countries.
D. democratic socialism
A. True
322. What do you call the system of gov- B. False
ernance in the many isolated cities of
Greece? 328. Megacities contain
A. City-states A. 5 million people
B. Decentralized Governance B. 10 million people
C. Unitary Governance C. 15 million people
D. None of the above D. 20 million people

329. Which of the following are PUSH fac- 334. Where are specialized schools, like nurs-
tors that encouraged some people to move ing school, located?
away from the CBD?

A. in the suburbs
A. High Rents B. in large cities
B. Crime C. in rural areas
C. Poverty D. in remote low income areas
D. All of the Above 335. A settlement is usually grouped
around or at the center of a resource.
330. What model shows the distribution of re-
tail and residential land use in the city? A. Linear
B. Cluster
A. Bad-Curve Model
C. Grid
B. Bed-Curve Model
D. none of above
C. Bid-Curve Model
336. Which of the following cities is a world
D. Bud-Curve Model
city?
331. Broadway A. Madison, WI
A. B. tokyo, japan
B. the C. Greenfield, WI
D. Nagano, Japan
332. Overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Ar-
eas eventually lead to megalopolis or: 337. This image best illustrates the con-
cept.
A. Primate city
B. Micropolitan Statistical Area
C. Conurbanization
D. Suburbs
333. Urban core includes
A. the suburbs A. density gradient

B. the downtown of a city B. urbanization
C. the farms and open spaces C. public housing
D. none of above D. blockbusting

338. The forces underlying the pattern, pro- 344. What information is this map showing
cess and accessibility of urban growth. us?
A. urbanization
B. morphological pattern of a city
C. development of polis
D. morphogenesis
339. What do countries like China and Vietnam
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hope to gain from allowing some free en-
terprise?
A. population growth A. Monthly rainfall (precipitation)
B. economic growth B. Yearly rainfall (precipitation)
C. cultural diversity C. Elevation of the U.S. landscape
D. political growth D. Population patterns in the U.S.
340. What shape does the Central Place The-
ory suggest urban areas will pattern them- 345. Which statement does not describe mod-
selves in? ern industrial estates?
A. Rings
B. Squares
C. Pentagon
D. Hexagons
341. Pushkin Museum
A.
B. the A. Landscaped with trees, shrubs and
342. A community’s collection of basic indus- lochs
tries B. Factories are grouped together in in-
A. Basic industry dustrial estates.
B. Non basic industry C. The streets have a crescent or cul de
C. Economic foundation sac pattern.
D. Economic base D. Room for Large car parks for workers
and delivery lorries.
343. These suburban downtowns are located
near key freeway intersections and pro- 346. What led to mining towns turning into
vide citizens numerous forms of entertain- ghost towns?
ments
A. People got tires of mining
A. Edge City
B. City B. Resources ran out
C. City-State C. More people moved to larger cities
D. Megacity D. The climate was harsh

347. Unrestricted low-density development of 352. A decline in shops and service, closure of
residential and commercial activities over factories and old housing replaced by high-
a large expanse of land is rise flats occurred in which area?

A. sprawl A. CBD
B. edge city B. Inner City
C. new urbanism C. Rural Urban Fringe
D. smart growth D. Suburbs
348. In what continent are most of the world’s 353. In Hoyt’s Sector Model lower income
megacities? neighborhoods are usually located
A. North America A. in a wedge that extends from the CBD

to the suburbs.
B. South America
B. adjacent to the industrial and trans-
C. Europe portation corridor
D. Asia C. on the east side of the city.
E. Africa D. in the first ring around the CBD.
349. Land is more intensively used in the cen- 354. This type of settlement would have the
ter of the city than elsewhere. largest population
A. true A. city
B. false B. small town
C. large town
350. What is a green belt?
D. village
A. an area close to the city used to build
new developments 355. What basic land use pattern includes sin-
gle family housing and apartment build-
B. the area of countryside around the
ings?
edge of a city with strict planning controls
to stop houses being built A. Industrial
B. Residential
351. According to this model, a city grows in
rings around the Central Business District. C. Commercial
D. Suburban
356. Aeroflot
A.
B. the
A. Concentric Zone Model 357. Which of the following correctly ranks

settlements in size from smallest to
B. Multiple Nuclei Model
largest?
C. Sector Model
A. Village, City, Town, Metropolitan area,
D. Latin America Model Megalopolis

B. Town, Village, City, Metropolitan area, C. They offer total choice in what their so-
Megalopolis cieties need
C. Village, Town, City, Megalopolis, D. There are no disadvantages
Metropolitan Area
D. Village, Town, City, Metropolitan Area, 363. Comparing the patterns of commercial
Megalopolis space and residential space, which of the
following examples is the weakest fit for
E. Town, City, Village, Metropolitan area, the Burgess concentric zone model?
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Megalopolis
358. Which of the following is not a reason for

the location of a city?
A. Near natural resources like water.
B. A government capital.
C. A factory or specialized economic ac-
tivity is near. A. Urban areas such as London that de-
veloped before the Industrial Revolution,
D. All are reasons for the location of a where a medieval city center is sur-
city. rounded by increasingly expensive hous-
359. Which of the following is a factor that can ing
impact how a city is structured and built? B. Urban areas such as the San Francisco
A. Climate Bay area, where there are multiple cen-
ters of employment and multiple areas of
B. Religion
high-income residences
C. History
C. Cities such as Philadelphia, where res-
D. All of the above idents may be willing to commute long dis-
tances in order to live in lower-cost hous-
360. In Hoyt’s Sector Model, what is usu-
ing
ally located adjacent to the industrial and
transportation corridor? D. Twin cities such as Minneapolis-Saint
A. Gated Communities Paul, where two Industrial-Era central
business districts are surrounded by in-
B. Central Business District (CBD) creasingly expensive housing
C. Higher income neighborhoods
E. Cities such as Toronto, where waves of
D. Lower income neighborhoods historical migrations have prompted the
expansion of high-income housing on the
361. King’s Cross Station outer edges of the city
A.
B. the 364. What type of economic activity do teach-
ers perform.
362. Name one disadvantage of a traditional A. primary
economy.
B. secondary
A. There societies are very slow to
change C. tertiary
B. There societies floruish quickly D. quarternary

365. Unrestricted low-density development of 370. As Mexico City has grown, it has seen
residential and commercial activities over increases in all of the following except
a large expanse of land

A. crime rates
A. New Urbanism B. air pollution
B. Sprawl C. average family size
C. Smart growth D. poor neighborhoods
D. Transit oriented development
371. Belarusian State University
366. What land-uses occur in the inner city? A.
A. Old housing B. the
B. CBD 372. In which area of the city would you find
C. Old Industry new detatched and semi-detached houses,
houses with large gardens and lots of
D. New business district green space?
367. Landlocked A. Inner City
B. CBD
C. Rural Urban Fringe
D. Suburbs
373. Why do squatter settlements exist in

cities of less-developed countries?
A. country surrounded by land with no di- A. city governments set aside vacant ar-
rect access to the moon. eas for new migrants.
B. country surrounded by land with no di- B. Affordable housing is not available
rect access to the sea. elsewhere for new migrants to the city.
C. people surrounded by land with no di- C. New migrants prefer to live in squatter
rect access to the sea. settlements with other recent migrants.
D. country surrounded by ice with no di- D. New migrants need to be isolated from
rect access to the sea. other city residents until the adjust to ur-
ban life.
368. Wall Street
374. What explains how cities of different
A.
sizes are arranged and connected?
B. the A. Gentrification
369. Almost half of all jobs in the United B. Urban sprawl
States are in C. The Central Place Theory
A. consumer services D. Urbanization
B. business services
375. region that includes a central city and its
C. manufacturing surrounding suburbs
D. farming A. Urban Sprawl

B. connectivity 381. What Model does UK have?

C. metropolitan area A. Hoyt sector model
D. world cities B. Vance’s urban realms model
376. Odeon C. Burgess model
A. D. Model of land use areas in the large

southeast Asian city
B. the
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382. The following chart is an example of
377. What are taxes used for in a command
economy?
A. make it available to oligarchs for their
budgetary discretetion
B. to lend out to entrepreneurs
C. support social services, such as hous-
ing and healthcare
D. to make life easier for the job creators A. Central Place Theory
378. nodes of economic activity that have de- B. Von Thunen model
veloped in the periphery of large cities C. Concentric Zone
A. Leap-frog development D. Latin American Urban Model
B. Boomburbs E. Multiple Nuclei Model
C. Edge City
383. What is the process of settlement forma-
D. Deurbanization tion, expansion and change called?
E. Exurbs
A. Urbanization
379. This economic system, which granted eco- B. City growth
nomic power to the lords that increase
C. Urban decay
profits of the crops and taking advantage
of a peasant workforce. D. Suburbanization
A. feudalism 384. A social problem that cities face is
B. manorialism A. noise and air pollution
C. mercantilism B. crime
D. imperialism C. traffic jams
380. What is the role of city planning and zon- D. subsidies
ing in shaping a functional city?
385. Throughout the world, more people are
A. Organizing urban space now living in urban areas than are living
B. Ensuring efficient land use in rural areas.
C. Promoting infrastructure development A. True
D. All of the above B. False

386. What are the implications of lack of af- C. segregation of land uses
fordable services in slum housing areas? D. all of these are results of suburbaniza-

A. No implications for disease incidence tion
B. No implications for human health
391. Vnukovo
C. Implications for human health and in-
A.
comes
B. the
D. No implications for incomes
387. Larger settlements are fewer and further 392. a city with more than 10 million people
apart & provide services that people are A. Megacity
willing to travel further for is
B. Metacity
393. The terms “village” and “town” mean
B. sector model
the same thing because a village and town
C. density gradient are similar in size and function.
D. multiple nuclei model A. True
388. Libraries are an example of what type of B. False
service?
394. An accountant is an example of which ser-
vice sector?
B. Business Services
A. Consumer
B. Business
D. none of above
C. Public
389. The following are the cities that devel- D. none of above
oped in Mesopotamia, EXCEPT one:
A. Ur 395. If a country’s largest city has 1, 000,
000 inhabitants and the second largest
B. Uruk city has 200, 000 inhabitants, the country
C. Mridu follows what type of distribution?
D. Thebes A. central place
390. Consequences of suburbanization include B. rank size
C. equidistant
D. primate city
396. Pyramids
A. the
B.
397. Golden Gate Bridge

A. segregation of social classes A.
B. segregation of ethnic groups B. the

398. The construction industry and bicycle in- share power with citizen bodies. Monar-
dustry BOTH grew as a result of the mak- chies can be separated into Constitutional
ing of the interstate highway system (Shared Power) and Absolute Monarchies
A. True (Unlimited Power).
B. False D. An individual holds complete political
power. Citizens have no individual rights
399. Which of the following is not the charac- and only participate in support of govern-
teristic of high income residential? ment.
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A. House far from CBD
402. The rank size rule states that the popula-
B. House that has double garages tion of a city or town will be:
C. House that has pools A. directly proportional to its rank
D. House near to CBD B. inversely proportional to its rank
400. A model of the internal structure of cities C. not related to its rank
in which social groups are spatially ar- D. over 2 times as large as the next
ranged in a series of rings. largest city
A. Concentric Zone Model
403. The increase in cities and people moving
B. Griffen-Ford Latin American City to cities is called what?
Model
A. Ruralization
C. Peripheral Model
B. Industrialzation
D. Sector Model
C. Personification
401. Monarchy is a
D. Urbanization
404. Red Square

A.
B. the
405. What was the first hearth of civilization?

A. Peru
A. Seeks to control all aspects of individ-
ual life within a country. The government B. Nile
either controls or prohibits all churches or C. Indus
religious groups and political groups be-
D. Mesopotamia
sides the ruling party.
B. a government controlled by a reli- 406. In geography, what is the correct term
gious leader with laws based on religious for a city that plays an important role in
law. In ancient times, rulers were often the global economic system?
priests, such as, the Pharaohs of ancient A. industrial city
Egypt or the Byzantine Empire whose em-
peror was also the head of the church. B. capital city
C. A king, queen, emperor, or em- C. edge city

press holds political power and may D. world city

407. True or false:Urbanization is a factor that 412. Which of the following was known as the
is contributing to the loss of agricultural “Rome of East Asia?”
land.

A. Timbuktu
A. True B. Merely
B. False C. Tenochtitlan
408. Which of the following stage of evo- D. Xian
lution model by John Borchert refers to
slow, primitive overland and waterway 413. is the process of settlement, forma-
transport-Boston, New York and Philadel- tion, expansion, and change.
phia were major cities oriented to Euro- A. Suburbanization
pean trade?
B. Urbanization
A. First Stage-Sail-Wagon Epoch
C. Urban Sprawl
B. Second Stage-Iron Horse Epoch
D. City Growth
C. Third Stage-Steel-Rail Epoch
414. The suburban explosion in the twentieth
D. Fourth Stage-Auto-Air-Amenity Epoch
century relied on
409. Which of the following cities is NOT in the A. railroads
metropolitan area of Milwaukee?
B. airplanes
A. Greenfield
C. motor vehicles
B. Mequon
D. bicycles
C. Muskego
415. St. Paul’s Cathedral
D. Madison
A.
410. British cities are surrounded by open
B. the
space known as
A. greenbelts. 416. A model of the internal structures of cites
in which social groups are arranged around
B. public housing. a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating
C. sprawl out from the central business district.
D. squatter settlements. A. Sector Model
E. suburbs B. Multiple Nuclei Model
C. Zone in Transition
411. a plot of land, often in a rural or on the
edge of an urban area that has not been D. Concentric Zone Model
built on before
417. As San Antonio grows, many business
A. Greenfield site and consumer services, suburban neighbor-
B. Industrial zone hoods, and manufacturing centers are lo-
cated along Loops 410 and 1604. This
C. brownfield site
economic and demographic pattern support
D. green belt the Model of urbanization.

422. what is the term that refers to the re-

habilitation of deteriorated, often aban-
doned, housing in low incomes, inner city
neighborhoods?
A. suburbanization
A. Sector
B. gentrification
B. Concentric Zone
C. commercialization
C. Islamic
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D. globalization
D. Peripheral
423. Which one is an economic system
418. Which of the following is best described
A. traditional
as cities existing before 1500 and explo-
ration? B. market
A. seaports C. command
B. mercantile cities D. all of the above
C. manufacturing cities 424. What # of Europeans live in urban areas?

D. urban banana A. 20%
B. 40%
419. which urban model is pictured here?
C. 60%
D. 80%
425. What is the largest city in population in

the world?
A. New York
A. concentric zone model
B. Mexico City
B. multiple nuclei model
C. Shanghai
C. sector model
D. Tokyo
D. none of above
426. According to the Burgess Model of Devel-
420. Heathrow Airport opment, the outer most ring is
A. A. extensive agriculture
B. the B. the zone of transition
421. How can the social issues of urban areas C. extensive commercial agriculture
be improved by regeneration? D. the commuter zone
A. By improving community representa-
427. electricity, clean water supplies, bridges,
tion
roads, IT services, sewage, and others
B. By neglecting sustainability thatare expensive to maintain and ex-
C. By focusing on large-scale infrastruc- pand.
ture projects A. Class system
D. By increasing pollution B. Food desert

C. infrastructure 433. What is the only region that is HIGHLY

D. Urban Challenges urbanized, and considered a LESS DEVEL-
OPED region of the world?

428. block busting refers to A. Western Europe
A. great parties B. Latin America
B. bringing in minorities to bring down C. Eastern Europe
property values D. South Asia
C. not loan to minority racial groups
434. When the largest city in a country or
D. gentrification state has at least twice the population of
the country’s next largest city, it is re-
429. Which of the following is a factor that a ferred to as a(n)
city planner would not take into consider-
ation when designing a city A. Megapolis
A. zoning ordinances B. Urban area
B. traffic C. Urban sprawl

D. Primate city
C. pollution
D. electoral boundaries 435. What does CBD stand for?
E. sanitation A. City Business Department
B. Central Business Depot
430. What is the functional zone that encom-
C. Central Business District
passes a city, its suburbs and exurbs
called? D. City Business District
A. Megalopolis 436. This picture is an example of what type
B. Metropolitan Area of community?
C. County
D. none of above
431. What is a good example of a shrinking

population?
A. alluvial plain
B. cosmopolitan city A. Urban
C. ghost town B. Rural
D. shrinking town C. Suburban
432. Which of these is a list of symbols? D. none of above
A. map key 437. All of the following describe edge cites

except
B. compass rose
A. they are more convenient places of em-
C. index ployment for newer suburban communi-
D. title ties.

B. they make it easier for traffic planners A. sector

to design mass transit systems. B. concentric zone
C. other uses such as shopping malls and C. multiple nuclei
apartment complexes are also present.
D. none of above
D. they typically are located at the inter-
sections of highways. 443. Time (magazine)
438. Strand (a street) A.
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A. B. The
B. the 444. Which fact is NOT true about the city cen-
tre?
439. An area of human settlement with a low
population density, cultural similarity, and
fewer services
A. Urban
B. Suburban
C. Rural
D. Wilderness A. It has excellent accessibility
B. It has high land prices
440. Central cities, suburbs and exurbs from
together to create an economic zone called C. Shops and offices locate here
a what? D. It is where old factories and old hous-
A. City-State ing are found
B. Nation-State 445. During the industrial revolution, people
C. Megalopolis were motivated to move to urban areas
primarily by
A. the depletion of soils in agricultural ar-
441. a special purpose eas
A. function B. artistic and cultural opportunities
B. structure C. poor housing and pollution
C. connectivity D. economic opportunities
D. central place
446. What part of the metropolitan area is B
442. The following is a picture of which urban pointing to?
land use model?
A. urban core

B. rural fringe 452. Which of the following is NOT a land use

zone that would be found in an urban area
C. urban fringe

A. Residential
D. none of above
B. Architectural
447. In a free enterprise system, what kind of C. Agricultural
people usually slip into poverty? D. Commercial
A. Weak E. Industrial
B. Sick
453. What tells what the map is about?
C. disabled A. map key
D. all of the above B. index
C. compass rose
448. Millennium Bridge
D. title
A.
454. A is any place where a community is
B. the
established.
449. Which of the following is NOT a site char- A. settlement
acteristic? B. urban
A. Paris on Seine River C. rural
B. Mexico City in dry lake bed D. all of the above
C. Bangkok on a delta 455. Urbanization is
D. Shenzhen near Hong Kong A. The process of urbaning
B. When an increasing percentage of a
450. Which of the following is NOT a feature country’s population lives in cities
of Roman cities?
C. When more people move from one city
A. Winding roads to another
B. Forum D. When the size of cities grow
C. Aqueduct 456. The growth of suburban areas is growing
D. Sewage System faster than rural areas.
A. true
451. factors are essential in selecting a
B. false
good place to settle. (Select all that ap-
ply) 457. Which of these is a major cause of rural
A. Urbanization decline in Mexico?
A. crowding and pollution in urban areas
B. Positional
B. loss of communal lands
C. Site
C. increased standard of living in rural ar-
D. Conditional eas
E. Situation D. increased poverty in rural areas

458. What is the term for the most important 463. How would you describe this place?
centers of economic power and wealth in
the world?
A. World Cities
B. Central Business Districts (CBD)
C. Edge Cities
D. Subsistence Agriculture A. Urban
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459. A police officer is an example of which B. Rural
service sector? C. Suburban
A. Consumer D. none of above
B. Business 464. Political boundaries, typically referred to
C. Public as , can change due to wars or treaties.
D. none of above A. margins
B. borders
460. Coffee is one of Guatemala’s key ,
which it sells to other countries all over C. frames
the globe. D. frontiers
A. imports 465. Why is understanding urban geography
B. exports important?
C. tariffs A. To promote sustainable development
D. raw materials B. To improve resource allocation

C. To make informed decisions
461. It is about what makes each of us unique
D. All of the above
and includes our backgrounds, personal-
ity, life experiences and beliefs, all of the 466. Why were old tenements in the inner city
things that make us who we are. torn down?
A. Diversity A. Because they were very run-down
B. Migration B. The space was needed for other devel-
C. Spatial Differentiation opments
C. To make way for new housing
D. City
D. People liked to live in them
462. Which of the following is NOT considered
a megacity? 467. What do geographers often study to de-
termine how well a city is fulfilling its func-
A. Tokyo tions?
B. New York A. Economics
C. Shanghai B. Waste Management
D. Mexico City C. Transportation System
E. Seattle D. Government

468. People are attracted to suburbs in part C. Beta cities

because suburbs are characterized by D. Gamma cities

A. heavy traffic.
473. Which of the following countries would
B. lower opportunity for home owner- LEAST likely follow the rank-size rule?
ship.
A. United States
C. private land surrounding the house.
B. Germany
D. row houses and apartments.
C. Argentina
E. closer proximity to cultural institu-
D. Japan
tions.
E. Italy
469. It is the first cities developed indepen-
dently. 474. What is a key feature that is centrally lo-
cated in the Latin American city model?
A. Sumerian
A. Heavy industry
B. Huang he
B. Squatter settlements
C. Indus Valley
C. A central plaza
D. Egypt
D. Government housing projects
470. The smallest, least complex type of set-
tlement in the urban hierarchy is the 475. Tea
A. Farm A. the
B. Village B.
C. Hamlet 476. What is the study of how people use

D. Town space in cities called?
A. Urbanization
471. True or false:Commercial farming gener-
B. Metropolitan
ally uses very small farms.
C. Urban Geography
A. True
D. none of above
B. False
477. Which of the following are the basic land
472. Tokyo, London and New York are ;
use patterns found in all cities?
each has a combination of economic, infor-
mational, and social/cultural factors that A. residential
result in world-wide impacts. B. commercial
C. political
D. industrial
478. A cooperative agency consisting of rep-

resentatives of local governments in a
metropolitan area in the United States.
A. Alpha ++ global (world) cities A. Council of government
B. Alpha + cities B. Special government zones

C. MUD B. Only services with a small market area

D. Special district will be located in small settlements
C. Worldwide, the only major area of job
479. Natural Boundaries use physical features
growth is the service sector
to divide nations. Select all the correct nat-
ural boundary examples D. Service jobs are only found in devel-
oped countries
484. Mall (a street)
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A.
B. the
485. How significant is the ‘housing crisis’ in

developed world cities and how can it be
A. River reduced?
B. Man Made Wall
A. The crisis is only about safe housing
C. Mountains can be reduced by increasing gated com-
D. Concrete Barriers munities
B. The crisis extends into the millions but
480. Settlements can be built upon higher land
can be reduced by improving public hous-
above the floodplain.
ing
A. Defensive Site
C. The crisis is about access can be re-
B. Natural Resources duced by reducing public transportation
C. Dry Point Site
D. The crisis is not significant in devel-
D. Wet Point Site oped world cities
481. Tate Gallery 486. The largest major population concentra-
A. tion of North America is
B. the A. from Toronto to Montreal.
482. Expand JnNURM B. A. from Miami to Jacksonville.
A. Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Re- C. from San Diego to San Francisco
newal Mission D. from Washington D.C. to Boston.
B. Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban
Restoration Mission 487. Which of the following explains why
New York City has more specialized stores
C. Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban &
than do smaller urban places in the United
Rural Mission
States?
D. None of the Above
A. Its status as a primate city
483. What statement is NOT true regarding
B. central place theory
the service sector
C. gravity model
A. The larger the settlement, the greater
the number and variety of services D. Concentric zone model

488. Which of the following words mean “re- 491. What are food deserts?
lating to city life”? A. Areas with little rainfall throughout the

year
B. Areas with little snow throughout the
year
C. Areas that don’t have many residents
D. Areas that don’t have grocery stores
A. urbanize (v) which has a big impact on public health
B. urbanization (n) 492. Based on the chart, France is considered
C. urban (adj) a country that follows
D. none of above
489. The population density of an urban area

would be
A. Central Place Theory

B. Von Thunen model
C. Hoteling Effect
D. Primate City Rule
E. Rank City Rule
A. high 493. What part of the metropolitan area is A

pointing to?
B. low
490. Housing (n) is an umbrella term that

means (choose 3):
A. urban core
B. urban fringe
C. rural fringe
D. metropolitan area
494. Which urban land model uses two CBDs?

A. houses A. Latin American
B. apartment B. Multiple Nuclei
C. shelter C. Sector
D. traffic D. Concentric

495. Edinburgh Castle 500. The Three Basic Land Uses:

A.
B. the
496. The minimum number of people needed

to support a service is the definition for
which key concepts in urban geography?
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A. Accessibility
B. Range
C. Threshold
D. Hinterland A. 1.Residential2.Industrial3.Non-
Commercial
497. The following are reasons of the collapse B. 1.Residential2. Non-Industrial3. Com-
of many ancient civilizations, EXCEPT one: mercial
A. uncontrollable population movements C. 1.Residential2.Industrial3.Livestock
B. uncontrollable population movements D. 1.Residential2.Industrial3.Commercial
C. failing states leading to increased war- 501. What is the government’s main economic
fare task in a free market?
D. Lack of city planning A. To preserve the comman economy
B. To look out for poor and weak
498. Gentrification is
C. to decide what the people need
A. the movement of wealthy people out D. To preserve the free market.
of suburbs and rural areas into the city,
changing the nature of the neighborhood 502. New York City; Alexandria, Egypt; Istan-
bul, Turkey. These are all examples of
B. the movement of wealthy people into
what?
the suburbs, changing the nature of the
neighborhood. A. Island Sites
C. the movement of middle class people B. Harbor Sites
into the suburbs keeping the neighbor- C. Oasis Sites
hoods the same D. Confluence Sites
D. the movement of people from urban to
503. Urban sprawl is the
rural areas so that they have more space
A. land maintained as open space sur-
499. Which of the following has the HIGHEST rounding a suburban area
order goods? B. development of new homes outside of
A. city the existing built up area
B. town C. change in density within an urban area

from the center to the periphery
C. village
D. period in the morning and evening with
D. hamlet the heaviest volume of traffic

504. What is the population of the third 509. Toronto’s Official Plan encourages infill
largest city in a country where the rank- instead of urban sprawl. Which of these
size rule applies if the largest city is 100, is the best example of infill?

000 in population?
A. 30, 000
B. 33, 000
C. 33, 333
D. 40, 000
505. Globe (theatre)
A. A. getting a cavity filled in at the dentist
B. the B. eating ALL THE SWEETS
506. Name one thing that a central place the- C. replacing an abandoned factory with a
ory tries to accomplish. new apartment building
A. find the resons why cities shrink in size D. outfill
B. explore the ways in which cities can
grow 510. What does urban geography study?
C. find the reasons behind the distribu- A. Rural areas
tion patterns, size, and number of cities
and towns around the world. B. Suburban areas
D. explore how some cities survive while C. Urban areas
others die D. All of the above
507. True or False:SPATIAL INEQUALITY is the
EQUAL distribution of wealth or resources 511. The following is a picture of which urban
in an area. land use model?
A. True A. sector
B. False B. concentric zone
508. Which city is renowned for its pedestrian- C. multiple nuclei

friendly streets, parks, and public spaces? D. none of above
A. Barcelona, Spain
B. Singapore 512. UNICEF
C. Curitiba, Brazil A.
D. None of the above B. The

513. Humans first domesticated plants and an- 519. Which of the following city in Kerala is
imals. Which of the following is being de- part of Smart City Mission
scribed?
A. Kochi
A. First Agricultural Revolution
B. Kozhikode
B. Second Agricultural Revolution
C. Third Agricultural Revolution C. Kannur
D. none of above D. Kollam
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514. What are the benefits of understanding 520. Why are centers of culture changing?
urban geography?
A. because people are becoming more in-
A. Sustainable city planning terconnected
B. Efficient resource allocation
B. because the change was innevitable
C. Informed decision-making
C. beccenter of culture are not changing
D. All of the above
D. because of their economic and cultural
515. Cities attempt to promote sustainability strength with outside world.
through changes to architecture, water
use, and transportation.
521. The relationship of one thing to another
A. True in size, amount, ect
B. False A. connectivity
516. What does urbanisation mean? B. proportion
A. the movement of people from the coun- C. factor
tryside to towns and cities
D. patron
B. the movement of people out of cities to
the countryside
522. What factor changed and DEFINES the
C. an increase in the percentage of peo- modern city?
ple living in towns and cities
A. Downtown
D. an increase in the percentage of peo-
ple moving to the countryside B. Suburbs
517. Democratic Party C. Factories
A. D. Now
B. the
523. What is a key part of urban regeneration
518. According to , the two largest cities schemes?
in a country will have the most interaction
between them A. Increasing resource consumption
A. Gravity Model B. Neglecting community identity
B. Sector Model C. Ignoring social equality
C. Central Place Theory D. Focusing on pollution and flood reduc-
D. Multiple Nuclei Model tion

524. Which one of the following is not a hous- C. Gentrification

ing scheme for poor D. Subdividing

A. Rajiv Awas Yojana
528. spreading of urban developments on un-
B. Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana developed land near a city
C. Integrated Housing and Slum Develop- A. connectivity
ment Programme B. Urban Sprawl
D. Swarna Jananti Urban Employment C. metropolitan area
Scheme
D. world cities
525. What is unique about the African City
529. All of the statement said are correct and
Model?
included in economics factor, Which one is
belong to Push Factors?
A. Job opportunities, better income and
prospect for waealth creation.
B. Industrial innovation in technical
know-how for a new industry.
C. Rural Poverty
D. Pursuit of specialized education
530. Area built up around a central city with
borders that touch and seperate political
units.
A. Squatter Settlements
A. Suburb
B. Decentralized CBD
B. Exurb
C. Three CBDs
C. Industrial District
D. Spine
D. Waste Management
526. Identify which statement is false. 531. Name one urban regeneration project in
A. With urbanization, population density London.
increased. A. The Great Wall of China
B. With urbanization, communication be- B. One example of an urban regeneration
came more difficult. project in London is the King’s Cross Cen-
C. With urbanization, trade increased. tral development.
D. With urbanization, cultural diffusion in- C. The Eiffel Tower in Paris
creased. D. The Statue of Liberty in New York
E. With urbanization, cities grew 532. Which of the following would be consid-
ered a Megacity:
527. The process of dividing older inner city
homes into smaller apartments due to de- A. Los Angeles (4 million people)
clining property values is know as B. San Diego (1.3 million people)
A. Redlining C. New York (20.1 million people)
B. Filtering D. Phoenix (1.6 million people)

533. Term for a city center that is dominated D. World City

by large stores, offices, and very tall build- E. City
ings
A. Metropolitan Areas 539. What do you call the process that encom-
passes the preparation of plans for and
B. Central Place
the regulation and management of towns,
C. Edge City cities, and metropolitan regions?
D. Central Business District A. City Governance
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534. Belarus Today B. Rural Planning
A. C. Urban Planning
B. The D. National Governance
535. Who owns property under communism? 540. What is a brownfield site?
A. It is owned by foreign corporations A. a site that has never been developed
B. It is collectively owned. before
C. it is owned by private corporations B. a site that is derelict from previous de-
D. its is owned by private individuals velopment
C. a site in an area of greenbelt
536. The development of new housing sites in
less dense area not connected to the ex- D. a site that no building can take place
isting built-up area. The spreading of an
urban area. 541. Which type of cities emerged during the
Industrial Revolution, also called the 2nd
A. Urbanization Urban Revolution?
B. Greenbelt
A. Urban banana
C. Smart growth
B. Mercantile cities
D. Urban Sprawl
C. Modern Cities
E. Gentrification
D. Manufacturing Cities
537. The Greek polis emerged during the Dark
ages on and built around 542. Most cities are found in places that allow
what?
A. Acred Hills
A. Good Transportation
B. Steep Hills
B. More Recreational Activities
C. Mountain Ranges
D. Shorelines C. Consumer Shopping Districts
D. Governmental Access
538. A is a huge center of finance, busi-
ness and government that is important to 543. What is deurbanization?
the global economy.
A. Where all people to other empire came
A. Metropolitan area to another one empire.
B. Village B. Where people form rural areas move
C. Megalopolis from urban area.

C. A demographic and social process 549. What is a ruler that measures distance?
whereby people move from urban areas A. compass rose
to rural areas.

B. index
D. Where people from other City go to
other city. C. scale
D. inset map
544. True or false:European cities generally
have taller skyscrapers than cities in the 550. something constructed or arranged in a
US. definite pattern of organization
A. True A. connectivity
B. False B. world cities
545. One advantage of gentrification is that it C. function
can revitalize a neighborhood in decline. D. structure
A. True
551. employment sector that includes jobs in
B. False hi-tech industries, research, information
546. pre industrial (1790-1830) transporta- technology and the media
tion slow (wagon, horse, sailing vessels) A. Qaternery sector
interiors mostly inaccessible leading cities- B. Social deprivation
boston, NY, philly but not primate yet
C. social opportunities
A. Sail and wagon epoch
D. none of above
B. Iron horse epoch
C. Steel-rail epoch 552. studies how factors such as a coun-
try’s size, location, and resources influ-
D. Auto-air-amenity epoch ence politics.
547. Small county subdivisions, usually con- A. Geopolitics
taining 5, 000 persons, delineated by
B. Physical Geography
the U.S Census Bureau as areas of rela-
tively uniform population characteristics, C. Biophysics
economic status, and living conditions. D. Demography
A. Census Tract
553. Which of the following BEST describes
B. Exurbs Spatial Differentiation? A. Development
C. Suburbs in the cityB. Development across geo-
graphic spaces.C. Uneven development in
D. Disamenity Sector
the city.D. Uneven development across ge-
548. A boundary often follows straight ographic spaces.
lines and does not account for physical fea- A. Development in the city
tures.
B. Development across geographic
A. cultural spaces.
B. ethnic C. Uneven development in the city.
C. geometric D. Uneven development across geo-
D. natural graphic spaces.

554. An area of human settlement that has 557. Which of the following is NOT an assump-
high population density, cultural diversity, tion of Central Place Theory?
and a large number of services offered. A. flat area
A. Urban B. population not distributed evenly
B. Suburban C. no barriers
C. Rural D. uniform transportation
D. Wilderness 558. The following are great cities in America,
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555. Rural fringe includes EXCEPT one:
A. Chicago
B. Miami
C. Saxony
D. San Francisco
559. Land values are high in the CBD primarily
because of
A. construction of skyscrapers
B. less intensive land use
A. The farms and open spaces after the
suburbs C. high threshold and range
D. competition for limited space
B. Big building in downtown
C. Houses in the suburbs 560. Which of the following terms means:less
than what is needed
D. none of above
A. pedestrian
556. Which of the following is an example of B. confer
a smart growth policy for urban develop-
C. significant
ment?
D. anemia
E. subsidies
561. What is the term for the type of agricul-
ture that focuses on growing crops for sale
to consumers?
A. Market-Oriented Agriculture
B. Subsistence Agriculture
A. Increasing the capacity of roads/highways C. Shifting Cultivation
D. Pastoralism
B. Decreasing the number or size of
562. the CBD is also known as
parks/greenspace
A. suburb
C. Increasing mixed-use land policies to
combat sprawl B. rural area
D. No longer permitting industrial zoning C. central business district
within city limits D. none of above

563. A large urban area is called a area. 568. Walter Christaller’s Central Place Theory
A. metropolitan helps explain why which activity is located
in the most accessible sites?

B. megalopolis
A. Retail complexes
C. commerce
B. Farm markets
D. none of above
C. High-rise apartments
564. A group of cities that have grown into D. Single-family housing
one large, built-up area. Explanation:Retail locates itself centrally
A. Edge City (central place theory), making it accessi-
ble from a range of locations in its hin-
B. Metropolitan Area terland; other activities are often at the
C. World City edges of cities, making them less accessi-
ble to the other side of the city
D. Central Business District
E. Megalopolis 569. This theory revises the Concentric Zones
Model, saying that cities grow in wedges
565. Which groups of people did redlining dis- or corridors often as a result of environ-
proportionately affect? Choose all the an- mental conditions.
swers that are correct.
A. People of Color
B. Foreign Born
C. Whites
D. The Elderly
E. Catholics
A. Sector Model
566. What do the cities of Mecca and Varanasi B. Latin America Model
have in common?
C. Multiple Nuclei Model
A. They are in Europe
D. Islamic City Model
B. People go there for religious pilgrim-
mages 570. What are informal activities?
C. Ships stopped there for supplies on A. untaxed, unregulated jobs with irregu-
trips lar hours or an unfixed location
D. They were sites of famous battles B. activities which take place in spare
time such as hobbies or leisure activities
567. Use of laboratory science to improve crop
C. jobs which are taxed and regulated
yields. Which of the following is being de-
such as offices or factories
scribed?
D. voluntary work that people do when
A. First Agricultural Revolution
they retire, in spare time or as social ser-
B. Second Agricultural Revolution vice activities
C. Third Agricultural Revolution 571. An area that has previously been built on
D. none of above and is now abandoned.

A. Greenfield site B. Zoning Ordinance

B. Brownfield site C. Red Lining
C. Urban regeneration D. Restrictions
D. Conurbation
576. Why was unemployment so high in the
572. Brownfield sites are usually 1960s?
A. People just didn’t want to work
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B. Decline in old industry
C. increase in job opportunities
D. none of above
577. These include such as climate change and

A. Derelict land
the availability of natural resources.
B. Disused
A. Ecological factors
C. In the inner city
B. Socio-cultural factors
D. all the above
C. Economics factor
573. American Airlines
D. All of the above
A.
B. the 578. What is east of the jogging path?
574. This is the rapid, often poorly planned
spread of development from an urban area
outward into rural areas
A. woods
B. swimming pool
C. playground
A. urban sprawl D. ice cream stand
B. metropolitan area
579. A country has 83% of the population that
C. rural fringe are farmers and there are.5 tractors for
D. whooping cough every 40 square miles of land. Which type
of farming is mainly taking place in this
575. A law that limits the uses of land and country?
maximum density of development in a
country. A. Commercial farming
A. Zoning B. Subsistence farming

580. Mexico City, once known as Tenochtitlan, B. jobs

is an example of a C. cheaper food sources

D. more transportation options
585. Disneyland
A.
B. the
586. National Museum of Culture and His-

tory of Belarus
A.
B. the
587. *Areas outside of cities are areas.

A. global city
A. settlement
B. precolonial city
B. urban
C. indigenous city
C. rural
D. nodal city
D. all of the above
581. The process of change in the use of
588. What is a major source of pollution in
a house, from single-family owner occu-
many cities related to urban transport?
pancy to abandonment, is
A. Rising affluence
A. blockbusting.
B. Safe air pollution levels
B. filtering
C. Low level ozone
C. gentrification
D. Increasing car ownership
D. redlining
E. urban blight. 589. Refers to the study of the origin of an
urban or city and its evolution.
582. Lida castle
A. morphological pattern
A.
B. centralization
B. the
C. morphogenesis
583. Which of the following is an ADVANTAGE D. urbanization
of having a primate city?
590. Which of these images show the suburbs
A. attraction for businesses
(like Edina, Woodbury, Eden Prairie)?
B. can’t attract trade
C. overpopulated A.
D. services struggle with demand
584. What is the number one reason for city

growth? B.
A. better housing

591. Another word for ANNUAL: 596. a large population concentration made up
A. Monthly of several large and many smaller cities,
such as the area between Boston and
B. Daily Washington, D.C.
C. Yearly
A. manufacturing belt
D. Weekly
B. megalopolis
592. Mixed-use development, pedestrian-
C. postindustrial
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friendly design, and the incorporation of
front porches and alleys are design ele- D. manufacturing belt
ments of which of the following?
A. Zero growth 597. which urban model is pictured here?
B. Transit-oriented development
C. Urbanization
D. New Urbanism
593. The city of Miletus follows which type of

urban city construction?
A. Grid Plan
B. Radial Grid Plan A. multiple nuclei model
C. Organic Plan B. sector model
D. Suburban C. concentric zone model
594. How does a good infrastructure help with D. none of above
a city’s function?
A. adds to the slow growth of city func- 598. Statue of Liberty
tions A.
B. helps with the production of goods
B. the
only
C. helps with the production of goods and 599. True or False:The value of the land in the
services and the production of finished Central Business District is very low.
products to market.
A. True
D. it has little affect with the production
of goods and the production of finished B. False
products to market
600. Boston, New York and Philadelphia have
595. Which regions is least urbanized and grown together to form a
most rapidly urbanizing?
A. Suburb
A. Europe
B. East Asia B. Metropolitan Area
C. Middle East C. Megalopolis.

D. Sub-Saharan Africa D. none of above

601. According to Rank City Rule, if the largest C. Suburban

city has 1 million inhabitants, how large is D. none of above
the 4th largest city?

A. 1 Million 606. Gentrification is the movement of
wealthy people out of the city to rural
B. 500, 000 areas.
C. 250, 000 A. True
D. 200, 000 B. False
E. 100, 000
607. One advantage of gentrification is that
602. Financial institutions refused to offer long time residents are displaced
loans to risky neighborhoods in cities. A. True
A. McMansions B. False
B. Blockbusting
608. Physical features/qualities describing
C. Redlining your actual location.
D. Racial Steering A. Site
603. The dramatic rise in the # of cities over B. Relative Location
the last two centuries is known as C. Situation
A. Americanization D. GIS
B. urbanization
609. The Trans-Siberian Railroad was built in
C. industrialization what country?
D. immigration A. Russia
604. Near key resources, Along major trans- B. Austria
portation and trade routes, Easy to de- C. Mali
fend/distance from enemies are examples
D. Serbia
of
A. Site 610. The concentric zone model of a city is also
called the
B. Situation
A. Hoyt Model
605. What type of community is shown in the
B. Burgess Model
picture?
C. City Model
D. Payne Model
611. What is a major challenge in growing ur-

ban areas related to housing provision?
A. High income levels
B. Low demand for housing
A. Urban C. Excessive housing supply
B. Rural D. Lack of affordable services

612. Belarusian Museum of the Great Pa- B. Neglecting economic benefits

triotic War C. Community-centered planning
A.
D. Promoting sustainability
B. the
617. A model of the internal structure of cities
613. What part of the metropolitan area is C in which social groups are arranged around
pointing to? a collection of nodes of activities
A. Multiple nuclei model
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B. Sector Model
C. Burgess Model
D. Hoyt Model
618. Main Street

A. rural fringe A.
B. urban fringe
B. the
C. urban core
D. cell membrane 619. Megalopolis refers to:
A. adjacent, overlapping metropolitan
614. What is the evidence that there is in- statistical areas.
equality in housing provision?
B. a large, densely packed city center.
A. Public housing increases income depri-
vation C. consolidated metropolitan statistical
areas.
B. Public housing provision varies be-
tween cities D. regional government federation.
C. Public housing is not available in devel- 620. A group in society prevented from partic-
oped world cities ipating in the material benefits of an ore
D. Public housing has no impact on the cri- developed society because of a variety of
sis social and economic characteristics.
615. The Sector Model emphasizes which A. Poverty
of the following true statements about B. Underemployed
where low-income groups live?
C. Underclass
A. Only the inner city
D. Exurbs
B. Following a linear transit system from
the interior outward 621. geographical theory that seeks to explain
C. Only the suburbs and rural areas the number, size, and location of human
settlements in an urban system
D. Equally distributed throughout the city
616. What are the contrasting approaches to
B. world cities theory
regeneration?
A. Focusing on large-scale infrastructure C. function theory
projects D. connectivity theory

622. What trend can you see by studying the C. They are located in the interiors of
following map of the Mississippi River? their respective countries and require so-
phisticated transportation networks.

D. They have political dominance within
their respective regions and are former
centers of colonial power.
626. Which order following the Concentric

Zone Model pattern from the inner to
outer ring?
A. CBD, working class, mixed use, com-
muters
A. Cities have developed along the Rocky B. CBD, mixed-use, new development, a
Mountain Range suburban CBD
B. There is no trend C. Mixed residential, middle class, CBD,

commuters
C. Cities have developed along the river
D. CBD, zone of transition, working class
D. Cities located inside the Mojave Desert homes, commuters
623. unplanned growth of urban areas into the E. Mixed use, CBD, zone of transition,
surrounding rural areas commuter
A. Rural expansion
627. What part of the metropolitan area is C
B. City growth pointing to?
C. Urban expansion
D. Urban sprawl
624. Area built up around a central city that is

not directly bordering it or any other polit-
ical entity but is economically tied to the
central city.
A. Suburb A. rural fringe
B. Exurb B. urban fringe
C. Industrial District C. urban core
D. Residential Zone D. none of above
625. Which of the following is a primary char- 628. Which cities were the first to develop a
acteristic of world cities? “downtown” with a central square in Eu-
A. They are capital cities in their respec- rope?
tive countries and centers of political A. Urban banana
power.
B. Seaports
B. They are financially and politically con-
nected to global markets and drive the C. Mercantile
process of globalization. D. Modern

629. Who typically gentrifies an area? A. urban sprawl

A. University students B. metropolitan area
B. Recent immigrants C. rural fringe
C. Retirees on limited incomes D. urban core
D. Dual income people without kids
633. What trade routes was Timbuktu along?
630. What challenges do cities face? A. Trans-Saharan
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A. Pollution B. Sea
B. Congestion
C. Siberian
C. Social inequality
D. Silk Roads
D. All of the above
634. What promoted urbanization more than
631. Which of the following is NOT a true any other event?
statement concerning automobiles in the
USA? A. highways
B. industrial revolution
C. commercialization
D. minimum wage
635. Suburban sprawl is the marriage of which

two terms
A. Car ownership increased the rate of A. urban and suburban

suburbanization. B. suburbanization and sprawl
B. Cars are the most common form of C. suburb and urban sprawl
transportation in America.
D. urban sprawl and urbanization
C. Automobiles affect both land use and
the cultural landsape of the USA. 636. to what does the central business district
D. The availability of cars has decreased (CBD) refer?
the amount of consumer goods in sub- A. the core commercial area of the city
urbs.
B. the shopping malls located in the sub-
632. This is the rapid, often poorly planned urbs
spread of development from an urban area C. the residential area outside the city
outward into rural areas
D. the industrial area outside the core
637. Hoyt’s urban model focuses on

A. shopping
B. transportation
C. airports
D. the CBD

638. What is a megacity? 645. Which population density would be found

A. a city of more than 10 million people in a rural area?

B. a very small country with one city in it
C. the stretch of land from from Min-
neapolis to Seattle
D. a chain of similar metropolitan areas
close together
A. high density
639. Taj Mahal
B. low density
A.
646. Why were these changes made?
B. the
A. to reduce congestion in the city centre
640. True or False:Advances in transportation B. to discourage people from driving in
allow people to travel to far away places the city centre
in a shorter amount of time. C. to make the city centre more accessi-
A. True ble
B. False D. none of the above
641. British Museum 647. Homer Hoyt’s sector model is based on

what fundamental principle?
A.
B. the
642. Albert Hall (museum)

A.
B. the
643. Characteristics of an area that are due to

relative location (or what you are located
near).
A. Site
B. Absolute Location
C. Situation
D. GPS
A. Development based on the location of
644. What 2 options are changes made to amenities
transport in the CBD? B. Development is centered on trans-
portation routes
A. decreased public transport
C. Development is structured around the
B. removal of bus lanes
CBD
C. Introduction of one way streets D. Development is based around enter-
D. Investment in park and rides prises such as airports

648. Which city is an example of Burgess’ Ur-

ban Model?
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A. Chicago
B. Detroit A. Central business district
B. Commuter’s zone
C. Baltimore
C. Zone of transition
D. Rio de Janeiro
D. Zone of better residences
649. Which statement does NOT describe the
652. What continent is Capetown at the south-
suburbs?
ernmost tip of?
A. Europe
B. Asia
C. South America
D. Africa
653. According to the classic bid-rent curve,

what happens to the value of land as one
A. Low density and larger houses gets closer to the Central Business District
B. Street pattern in modern cul-de-sacs (CBD)?
and crescents A. Land gets used more extensively.
C. Grid iron street pattern of tenement B. Land gets more expensive.
housing C. Land gets used less intensively.
D. Newer, 20th and 21st century housing- D. Land gets more affordable along busy
likely to be detached or semi-detached streets.
houses.
654. Redlining most often affects
650. Large cities develop many nodes around
which different types of people and activi-
ties cluster. This describes the
A. peripheral/galactic
B. multiple nuclei
C. sector
D. concentric
A. inner-city neighborhoods
651. In this model, what is the name of 5? B. suburban neighborhoods

655. Clusters of large buildings and shopping B. Some factors that attract people to ur-
centers away from the central business ban areas in the UK include job opportu-
district. Residents of suburbs are increas- nities, cultural diversity, access to ameni-

ingly working and shopping here instead ties and services, and better transporta-
of the CBD. tion infrastructure.
A. Edge City C. Some factors that attract people to ur-
ban areas in the UK include limited job
B. Metropolitan Area
opportunities, limited access to amenities
C. World City and services, and poortransportation in-
D. Central Business District frastructure.
E. Megalopolis D. Lack of job opportunities and poor in-

frastructure
656. What functions do urban areas have?
660. Prosperous residential districts beyond
A. creats a stress free environment for the suburbs are known as
the upper income class
B. creats manufacturing, retail, and ser-
vices centers
C. manages to appropriate left over agri-
cultural goods from the rural areas
D. creats a atmosphere were people can
be interconnected
657. Cities and surrounding areas are ar- A. galactic cities

eas. B. suburbs
A. settlement C. suburbs
B. urban D. inner cities
C. rural 661. According to the classic Bid-Rent Curve,
D. all of the above what happens to the value of land as one
gets closer to the CBD?
658. Which of the following has no urban func-
A. Land gets more affordable
tion and would only have homes, farms,
and maybe a gas station? B. Price of land is not affected
A. city C. Land gets used less intensively
B. town D. Land gets more expensive
C. village 662. A law that limits the permitted uses of
D. hamlet land and development in a community
A. Central place
659. What are the factors that attract people
to urban areas in the UK? B. Traffic Ordinance
A. Limited access to amenities and ser- C. Zoning Ordinance

vices and poor housing supply D. Architecture ordinance

663. What are the social implications of traf- 669. What are the key stakeholders in urban
fic congestion on urban economic develop- regeneration?
ment and human wellbeing? A. Planners and local government have
A. Reduced pollution exposure the same roles
B. Improved economic development B. Residents have no role in regeneration
C. Increased length of the working day C. Businesses have no role in regenera-
D. Reduced stress and pollution exposure tion
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D. Planners, local government, busi-
664. The physical character of a place “Condi-
nesses, and residents have contrasting
tions” that are right there at the location
roles
A. Site
670. The size of a country’s largest city is
B. Situation
more than double the size of the second
665. 3 Models of Urban development, Con- largest city is
centric Zone, Sector, and Multiple Nuclei, A. rank size
were all created in what U.S. city?
B. primate city
A. New York City
C. central place theory
B. Houston
D. density gradient
C. The Angels
D. Chicago 671. What is another name for a city area?
A. Suburb
666. Zoning laws can sometimes promote seg-
regation by income B. CBD
A. True C. Urban
B. False D. none of above
667. True or False:New technology has hin- 672. Why are many cities located near bodies
dered the interaction of regions with of water?
nearby and distant places. A. for protection from known enemies
A. True B. it allows for good transportation
B. False C. to keep people from wanting to travel
668. The is an international organization there
dedicated to fostering cooperation in inter- D. none of above
national law, international security, eco-
nomic development, social progress, hu- 673. What is the term for the arrangement of
man rights, and aspirations to achieve different-sized urban places based on their
world peace. size and function?
A. North Atlantic Treaty Organization A. Central Place Theory
B. World Trade Organization B. Urbanization
C. United Nations C. Domestication
D. International Federation of Nations D. Agribusiness

674. Prior to 1850, the location of all major 679. High Street
North American cities was largely deter-
A.
mined by

B. the
A. water power
B. navigable waterways 680. Basic industries are defined as
C. railroad junctions A. industries that export to consumers
D. transcontinental highways outside the settlement
B. industries that provide services within
675. Which Urban Model has a spine?
the settlement
A. Galactic City Model
C. industries that provide food and shel-
B. Islamic City Model ter to the settlement
C. Latin American City Model D. industries that are available in all set-
D. Southeast Asia City Model tlements
676. involves the process of people moving to 681. Which of the following businesses is an
residential areas outside of cities indicator of gentrification?
A. Social heterogeneity A. A family owned business
B. Pedestrian Cities B. Starbucks
C. Streetcar suburbs C. a local antique shop
D. Suburbanization
D. a 100-year running bakery
E. Sprawl
682. Rapid change in the racial composition
677. What type of map is this? of residential American cities that occurs
when real estate agents stir up fears of
neighborhood decline is known as
A. White flight
B. Blockbusting
C. redlining
A. Political
D. Filtering
B. Climate
C. Physical Features 683. Titanic
D. Economic Resources A.
678. absence of enforced zoning is a problem B. the

of
684. According to the central place theory, a
A. N. American Cities city contains more than one center around
B. European cities which activities revolve.
C. cities in poorer countries A. true
D. The rust belt B. false

685. What was the marketplace that was the B. Strong enough to last
center of activity in Greek cities called? C. Increase national pride
A. Forum D. They’re all free to visit
B. Now
690. What is the area in a city center domi-
C. Acropolis nated by large stores, offices, and build-
D. Aqueduct ings called?
A. Central Business District (CBD)
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686. Look carefully, which map symbol is miss-
ing? B. Edge City
C. Subsistence Agriculture
D. Market-Oriented Agriculture
691. When a low-income neighborhood be-
comes more expensive to live in and forces
the current residents out, this is known as
A. Redlining
A. Museum
B. Blockbusting
B. Train Station C. Gentrification
C. Bus Station D. Smart growth
D. Airport
692. Urbanization?
687. This is used to secure the network of
trade in Mesopotamia from evil practices,
black marketing and hoarding among oth-
ers.
A. Barter
B. Coins
C. Seals A. is the rise in the number of cities and
changes in lifestyle.
D. Stamps
B. is the rise in the number of farms and
688. What is a consequence of air pollution lev- changes in lifestyle.
els considered unsafe in some cities? C. is the rise in the number of towns and
A. No implications for human health changes in lifestyle.
B. Implications for human health, espe- D. is the rise in the number of villages and
cially for old and young people changes in lifestyle.
C. No implications for human health 693. Which of the following is the 1st Urban
D. Implications for human health, espe- Hearth?
cially for working adults A. Mesopotamia
689. How do monuments/states/famous B. Nile Valley
buildings help with “nation-building”? C. Indus Valley
A. Good photo ops D. MesoAmerica

694. Individuals who are unable to return 699. Most of the expanded territory of the
home. powerful state like England, France, and
Germany became part of certain kingdoms

A. asylum seekers
known as;
B. Step migration
A. feudalism
C. Chain migration
B. scientific revolution
D. Refugees
C. manorialism
695. What changes have not taken place in the
CBD? D. mercantilism
A. Shopping Centres 700. Kremlin

B. Multi-storey car parks A.
C. Retail Parks B. the
D. More cafes/restaurants
701. What is the population distribution like in
696. Name the Scheme Launched by Govern- UK cities?
ment of India to Develop the Heritage A. The population distribution in UK cities
Cities is the same in all cities
A. genital
B. The population distribution in UK cities
B. heart varies, with some cities having larger pop-
C. SWACHH BHARAT ulations than others. For specific data, it
is best to refer to the latest census or of-
D. AMRUTH
ficial statistics from the UK government.
697. The core of a city that is based on com- C. UK cities have a very small population
mercial interests is called what?
D. There is no population data available
A. Financial Ground Zero for UK cities
B. The Banking District
702. Which of the following is an ancient civi-
C. Central Business District
lization which existed in Meso-America?
D. Industrial District
A. Harappa
698. What do the dark spots on this popula- B. Inca
tion density map represent?
C. Mycenae
D. Uruk
703. Wal-Mart is opening in the small town of

Vado, New Mexico. This is creating over
400 jobs in the area. Population is quickly
increasing. This is an example of
A. urban cores A. Urbanization
B. metropolitan areas B. Inflation
C. Somerset, Wisconsin C. Urban Center
D. public transit systems D. Influence

704. Large cities are economic hubs with radi- 710. What basic land use pattern has areas re-
ating connections for commerce according served for the manufacturing of goods?
to A. Industrial
A. From Thunen
B. Residential
B. Concentric Ring
C. Commercial
C. Central Place Theory
D. Suburban
D. none of these
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711. Characteristics of world cities include
705. Where are new migrants most likely to which of the following?
settle according to newer models of set-
tlement in more developed countries? A. International company headquarters
A. Suburban areas B. Significant global financial functions
(stock exchange, banking institutions,
B. Central cities
etc.)
C. Brownfields
C. Polarized social structures (inequity)
D. Squatter settlements
D. All of the above
706. The dramatic rise of cities and changes in
lifestyles is called what? 712. International company headquarters, sig-
nificant global financial functions, and a po-
A. Gentrification
larized social structure are defining charac-
B. Urbanization teristics of
C. Ruralization A. primate cities
D. Sub urbanization B. warehouses
707. Eiffel Tower C. forward capitals
A. D. world cities
B. the E. edge cities
708. Which of these is the most important 713. Which of these images show a metropoli-
“pull factor” that draws farm families to tan area?
Mexico City?
A. apartment living A.
B. communal land
C. economic opportunity
D. spatial inequality B.
709. Why has development been encouraged
in derelict sites in the inner city?
714. Which of the following statements re-
A. they are cheap to develop on
lated to primate cities and the rank-size
B. they encourage development on green- rule is INCORRECT?
belt
A. Mexico City is a good example of a pri-
C. derelict sites are unsightly mate city because it is five times larger
D. none of above than its second-largest settlement

B. The existence of rank-size distribution 719. What is the difference between a city and
of settlements can impact the quality of a metropolitan area?
life within a country

A. A metropolitan area includes both a
C. Countries with primate cities tend to city and its surrounding suburbs.
have an even distribution of goods and
B. A metropolitan area lacks a central city
services throughout the country
C. A city has suburbs, but a metropolitan
D. Residents of countries that follow
area does not
rank-size distribution have greater access
to important services D. A city can experience urban sprawl,
but a metropolitan area cannot.
715. the directness of routes linking pairs of
places 720. According to the sector model of urban
space, a city grows outward from a cen-
A. connectivity
tral point in a series of rings.
B. Urban Sprawl
A. true
C. metropolitan area
B. false
D. world cities
721. The rapid spread of a city from its center
716. Which of the following best describes a is known as
theocracy?
A. Elected officals
B. Communist societies
C. Dictatorships
D. Priest Kings
717. What is the future of urban planning? A. New Urbanism
A. Increasing importance of urban geog- B. Exurbanization

raphy C. Urban sprawl
B. Creation of functional and equitable D. Urban infill
cities
722. An area of human settlement that is rel-
C. Focus on sustainability and quality of
atively untouched by humans
life
A. Urban
D. All of the above
B. Suburban
718. The first cities were considered egalitar-
C. Rural
ian societies, which meant:
D. Wilderness
A. They were all equal in jobs
B. They had different jobs 723. Westminster Abbey
C. They had great leadership A.
D. They had religious rulers B. the

724. The development of new housing sites in 730. How do economies grow under a commu-
less dense areas not connected to the ex- nist economy?
isting built-up areas is known as A. very fast
A. Urban sprawl B. there is absolutely no growth
B. Urbanization C. the growth is not measureable
C. Gentrification D. Slow or not at all
D. Public housing 731. What is Ghetto?
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725. Worldwide, settlement patterns are be- A. Poor neighborhood
coming more B. Country
A. urban C. Death camps
B. rural D. City
726. New York, Tokyo, and London are exam- 732. A city and its surrounding built-up areas
ples of World Cities. is called a
A. True A. Village
B. False B. Megalopolis
C. World City
727. Romans were able to increase communi-
cation thorough their empire by creating D. Metropolitan area
this feature very efficiently. E. Suburban area
A. Transportation network 733. What is the geometric shape of hinter-
B. City walls lands in Central Place Theory?
C. Now A. circle
D. Acropolis B. square
C. hexagon
728. The process of converting a neighborhood
from a predominantly low-renter renter- D. pentagon
occupied area to a predominantly middle- 734. The largest circles on the map represent
class owner-owned area
A. Renewal
B. Gentrification
C. Conversion of Area
D. Urban Renewal
729. Which is a negative impact of cities grow-

ing?
A. New technologies A. Cities
B. Pollution B. Towns
C. Diversity C. Villages
D. Education D. Hamlets

735. Where is the best housing located accord- 740. How would you best define decentralisa-
ing to the sector model? tion?

A. A section from the CBD to the edge of A. The dispersal of activities and people
the city from large urban centres to smaller ones
B. suburbs B. The dispersal of activities and people
C. nodes around schools from small urban centres to larger ones
D. the first ring outside the market C. The deterioration of the built environ-
ment
736. Standard of living refers to: D. The renovation and enhancement of
the built environment
741. Ron Finley (AKA the guerrilla gardener)
is fighting food deserts in Los Angeles by
A. Helping the homeless plant fruits and
vegetables
B. Planting a garden on the strip of grass
A. Shelter (houses, apartments, condos) near the street
B. the way in which something is divided C. Planting gardens in vacant lots
among a group or spread over an area.
D. All of the above
C. Life quality for people (access
to:education, health, sanitation, technol- 742. What is the term for the growth in the
ogy, jobs, etc.) proportion of people living in towns and
D. none of above cities?
A. Urbanization
737. Which of the following is NOT a zoning
category for cities? B. Domestication
A. Small Houses C. Pastoralism

D. Agribusiness
B. Residential
C. Commerical 743. Which of the following are PULL factors
that encouraged some people to move into
D. Industrial
suburbs?
738. True or False:People settle near natural A. High rents
resources.
B. Crime
A. True
C. Larger homes for less money
B. False
D. Poverty
739. What are the basics of survival? 744. Why did the United States suburban-
A. food and water sources ize so rapidly during the period between
B. transportation and shelter 1950-present?
C. food, water sources, and protection A. Mass produced automobile
from enemies. B. New home construction
D. food and land C. Interstate highway systems

D. Readily available low cost, long-term

mortgages
E. All of these bad boys

Explanation:It’s true. All of these con-
tributed to suburbanization by providing a
lot of homes at affordable prices via VA
Home Loans and affordable automobiles
and highways allowed people to move fur-
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ther and further out from the city. A. Liberia
B. Somalia
745. How can you tell this area is part of Glas- C. Ethiopia
gow’s inner city? D. Nigeria
E. Rwanda
747. Identify push factors

A. poor farmland
B. lack of safety
C. limited jobs
D. healthcare
748. Today ( a newspaper)

A. It has a tourist information A.
B. The
B. It has a grid iron street pattern
749. Which of the following is NOT a charac-
C. It has a major train station teristic of the 1st Urban Revolution?
D. It has many churches and places of A. Specialization

worship B. Leadership Class
C. Industrialization
746. What country is #4 D. Social Stratification

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