Urban Unit Test (Chapters 12) Pre test
LT 2: I can use geographic models to make & justify decisions about the best location for facilities.
1. When you drive south from Boston to Washington, D.C., and notice that the majority of the landscape is urbanized, you are experiencing
a. A megacity
b. A megalopolis
c. An edge city
d. An urban agglomeration economy
2. What is a central place?
a. Hinterland
b. market center
c. range of goods
d. circular settlement
3. Which of the following best describes the urban hierarchy of settlements?
a. Town, hamlet, village, metropolis, megalopolis
b. Village, town, hamlet, metropolis, megalopolis
c. Hamlet, city, town, metropolis, megalopolis
d. Hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis
LT 3: I can use the rank size rule to understand population distribution
4. According to the rank-size rule, the 3 rd largest city
a. Would be the second city closest to that city’s primate city
b. Would contain one-third of the country’s total urban population.
c. Would be the third closest city to the country’s capital.
d. Would contain one-third of the population of the country’s largest city.
LT 4: I can use Models to explain the distribution of people and business in urban settings.
5. In the Concentric Zone Model (also known as the Burgess Zone Model), which of the following is
represented by the center of the model?
a. high-income residential
b. middle-income residential
c. wholesale, light manufacturing
d. Central Business District (CBD)
LT 5: I can describe the factors that shape & change urban and suburban areas.
LT 6: I can explain how the evolution of transportation & communication affects rural, urban, & suburban
6.What is the term for the decline in density and the spread of metropolitan areas especially associated with the building of freeways after the 1950s?
a. Suburbanization
b. Gentrification
c. new urbanism
d. counter-urbanism
7.Process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods & renovate the housing
a. Central business districts
b. Gentrification
c. Fragmented Government
d. Urban Sprawl