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100
The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the
What is hinterland
100
The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is
What is a hexagon
100
30) In a simplified model of a city, the zone where retail and office activities are clustered is the A) central business district. B) central commerce zone. C) urbanized downtown area. D) metropolitan statistical area. E) hub.
What is a central business district
100
According to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of A) corridors. B) nodes. C) rings. D) sectors. E) quadrants.
What is rings
100
The city plus its surrounding built-up suburbs is the A) central city. B) urbanized area. C) metropolitan statistical area. D) consolidated metropolitan statistical area. E) regional government federation.
What is consolidated metropolitan statistical area.
200
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is
What is range
200
A ________ is an example of a settlement that specializes in public services. A) state capital B) hospital C) large casino complex D) shopping mall E) retirement community
What is a state capital
200
Retail activities which tend to concentrate in the CBD include those which have A) no threshold. B) no range. C) services for office workers. D) a need for rapid transportation. E) a need for large amounts of horizontal space.
What is services for workers
200
According to the sector model, the best housing is located in A) a corridor from downtown to the edge of the city. B) an outer ring surrounding the city. C) nodes near universities and parks. D) renovated inner-city neighborhoods. E) gated communities.
What is a corridor from downtown to the edge of the city
200
In the United States, which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area? A) central business district B) central city C) urbanized area D) metropolitan statistical area E) regional government federation
What is metropolitan statistical area
300
A central place is a
What is market center
300
Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity? A) video rental store B) grocery store C) gas station D) steel mill E) travel agency
What is a steel mill
300
As a result of high land costs, the American CBD is characterized by A) less intensive land use. B) the construction of skyscrapers. C) suburban sprawl. D) a high threshold and range. E) the reuse of existing buildings.
What is the construction of skyscrapers
300
According to the multiple nuclei model, an airport is likely to attract nearby A) hotels and warehouses. B) residences and highways. C) retail and wholesale shops. D) universities and colleges. E) hospitals and clinics.
What is hotels and warehouses
300
Many of the poor on the periphery of cities in less developed countries live in areas known as A) squatter settlements. B) council estates. C) public housing. D) the zone in transition. E) suburbs.
What is squatter settlements
400
If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution?
What is primate city
400
26) A firm that sells its products primarily to consumers outside its settlement is a A) basic industry. B) functional classification. C) nonbasic industry. D) primate city. E) consumer service.
What is a basic industry
400
What activity tends to locate on the street-level floor of a skyscraper in a typical North American CBD? A) government B) industrial C) office D) retail E) education
What is retail
400
Social area analysis attempts to explain A) the changing location of retail and office activities in North American cities. B) the development of squatter settlements in developing countries. C) the distribution of different types of people in an urban area. D) which of the three models of urban structure is the most accurate in the United States. E) regions ideal for social services.
What is the distribution of different types of people in an urban area.
400
Compared to the United Kingdom, the amount of sprawl in the United States is A) greater. B) less. C) about the same. D) better controlled. E) declining.
What is greater
500
The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the
What is rank-size rule
500
Richard Florida's research identified a relationship between the distribution of A) talent and diversity. B) central places. C) talent and economic prosperity. D) rural and urban settlements. E) business and consumer services.
What is talent and diversity
500
A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is A) public administration. B) industrial. C) office. D) retail. E) legal.
What is industrial
500
The multiple nuclei theory A) involves four linked CBDs. B) includes nodes such as a port, a university, airport, and a park. C) includes a nucleus in the CBD which is connected to a nucleus in the suburbs. D) links a seaport, an airport, and a railway station. E) disregards the use of nodes.
What is includes nodes such as a port, a university, airport, and a park.
500
The "Boswash" corridor that stretches from Boston to Washington, D.C., was named "Megalopolis" A) by geographer Jean Gottmann. B) because it covered more than one-fourth of total U.S. land area. C) because it was planned to house more than half of the U.S. population. D) as a counterbalance to the plans of geographer Hugh Separalle. E) by economist, philanthropist, and geographer Harvey Keitel.
What is by geographer Jean Gottmann
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