Geography Questions
1. There is no single year when the urbanization curve begins, since every society goes through each of these stages at different times. However, before 1800 all societies, from the most to the least economically advanced, were at the initial stage of urbanization.
A. True
B. False
2. Harris and Ullman recognized that cities were developing multiple centers or nodes that shaped land values and surrounding land uses. His model was known as :
A. Concentric Zone
B. Sector Model
C. Multiple Nuclei
3. City A has a location quotient (LQ) of 84 for the manufacturing industry. City B’s LQ is 100. City C’s LQ is 25, and City D’s LQ is 185. Which City is most specialized in manufacturing?
a.
City A
b.
City B
c.
City C
d.
City D
4, Los Angles city has an index of segregation of 70 for whites and blacks whereas in Sacramento city it is 40.1. This tells us _________ city is highly segregated
a.
Sacramento
b.
Los Angeles
5,
6, The ____________________ class includes people who work in science and technology, business and management, arts, culture, media and entertainment, law, and healthcare professions.
a.
Creative
b.
Blue collared
c.
Service class
d.
Working class
7, The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the market area or
a.
Range
b.
Hinterland
c.
Threshold
8, Larger than ethnic neighborhoods or ethnoburbs, ethnic islands are areas of ethnic concentration in rural, or non-urban, areas.
A. True
B. False
9, Which term describes a center of employment on the outskirts of the urban area that is associated with highways?
a.
CBDs
b.
edge cities
c.
exurbs
d.
power center
10, The separation between social or ethnic groups is called:
A. Index of Dissimilarity
B. Segregation
C. Ethnicity
D. Race
11, Which of the following is a characteristic of an edge city, according to Garreau (1991)?
a.
It was considered part of a city more than 30 years ago.
b.
It engages in smart growth.
c.
It has ethnic diversity.
d.
It has more jobs than bedrooms.
12, ______________________refers to cluster of productive activities and people for mutual advantage- clustering of retail establishments
A. Agglomeration
B. Localization
C. Urbanization
13, Which term describes production savings resulting when firms and workers locate near each other?
a.
centrography
b.
central place theory
c.
agglomeration economies
d.
economies of scale
14, When Real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause the values to decline is called White Flight.
True
False
15, This is the process in which people move from the central areas of cities to the urban fringe and even beyond the suburbs. It may occur simultaneously with greater urbanization is called__________________
A. Rural-Urban Migration
B. Counter Urbanization
16, Disney Co. created Celebration, Florida, a community that they called the:
a.
Ideal Community of Tomorrow
b.
Ideal World of Yesterday
c.
Ideal City of Tomorrow
d.
Ideal Town of Today
17, The king of the South Asian country of Bangladesh has famously promoted “gross national happiness,”
True
False
18, Sprawl is the result of bad planning
True
False
19, On the map of world urban percentages, the darkest brown color (at the top of the map legend) represents
a.
the dirtiest cities.
b.
the highest percentage urban.
c.
regions with the largest cities.
d.
generally lower percentages.
20, The_____________ class entails workers in low-wage, low-skill, routine service jobs such as food service and preparation, retail sales, clerical and administrative positions, and the like.
A. Service class
B. Blue collared
C. Creative Class
21, Counter urbanization is
a.
migration to rural areas and small towns.
b.
the trend of the elderly retiring to rural locations.
c.
the move from urban core to suburban areas.
d.
due to expanding suburbs
22, Transnational corporations allocate production to low wage countries through Outsourcing.
True
False
23, SEX refers to the societal norms and behaviors that are expected of males or females.
True
False
24, They have shunned the mechanical and electrical power and they still travel by horse and buggy and continue to use hand tools for farming.
a.
Amish
b.
Hindus
c.
Sikhs
25, Which would most likely to be locations of high-tech computer and software industries?
a.
east coast and the west coast
b.
the Deep South
c.
the Midwest
d.
the Great Plains
26, The Larger the central place the greater will be the number of retail facilities.
True
False
27, What did Florida (2002) name the group of highly educated workers associated with high-technology industry locations?
A. maquiladoras
B. the high-amenity zone
C. the underclass
D. the creative class
28, It is defined as the ratio of an industry’s share of the local economy to the industry’s share of the regionalnational economy:
A. Agglomeration economy
B. Urbanization of economies
C. Location Quotient
D. Tobler’s first law of geography
29, The range of consumer services like groceries, laundromots or video rentals will be smaller as compared to expensive or higher order goods.
True
False
30, Most Americans don’t even know that some Palestinians are Chris- tian, assuming that all are Muslims, but this is not the case. This example is a form of emergent ethnicity, the creation of an ethnic identity not common in the past.
True
False
31, A variety of terms are used to designate poor countries: Third World, less developed countries and sometimes the _______________
always with the implication that these countries aspire to a level of development that the rich countries—
a.
Developing World
b.
First World
c.
NAFTA
d.
More Developed regions
32, Mexico city and Paris are good examples of ______________cities:
a.
Sun belt
b.
Centrality
c.
Million plus
d.
Primate
33, Children of immigrants to a new country
a.
often reject the new culture.
b.
All
c.
become more assimilated than their parents.
d.
will usually return to the origin country (or homeland).
34, Starting in the late 1940s, America embarked on a new development pattern that is generally known as _______________.The widespread availability of the car and massive highway building projects made it possible to build any kind of building anywhere.
a.
Creative city
b.
Garden city
c.
Sprawl
d.
Gentrification
35,
36, Garden city were able to solve some of the problems of the dense downtown areas by
a.
Allowing city dwellers to go back into the agricultural trade
b.
Increasing more space for urban development while concentrating farmland
c.
Concentrating housing away from factory
d.
Having people move in small satellite communities where they could work
37, The Industries with Location Quotient less than 1 will be:
a.
Net Exporter
b.
Net Importer
c.
Self Sufficient
38, What is gentrification?
a.
the renovation of deteriorated neighborhoods by middle- and higher-income people
b.
the process of refusing to issue loans in certain areas because of perceived mortgage risk
c.
the decrease in rent as a neighborhood increases in status
d.
the conversion of a neighborhood to a blighted state
39,
40, At the urban center of a modern city in the United States one might find as a main marker
a.
the temple.
b.
the cathedral.
c.
the skyscraper.
d.
market
41, Which of the following is a type of primary economic activity?
A. information services
B. manufacturing
C. agriculture
D. Retailing
42, Brain drain is
A. the large-scale emigration of talented people.
B. The process by which people are given reference for migration.
C. a cultural feature that hinders migration.
D. a net decline in literacy
43, Which tool is used to determine an area’s level of specialization in an industry?
A. poverty threshold
B. size of the creative class
C. location quotient
D. percentage of population with a college degree
44, Creative Cities are those cities which have a combination of Technology, Talent and Tolerance and San Diego and San Francisco are good examples.
True
False
45, Howard’s ideas heavily influenced the physical environment of England today. Rather than spread development in large lots all over the countryside, as Americans have done, the English have retained distinct towns surrounded by Green Belts of open countryside where most development is prohibited.
True
False
