Population and Settlement

Sprawl is:

• the growth of urban areas out into the surrounding rural area; natural habitat or farmland
• development of new housing cites within the urban core
• land maintained as open space surrounding an urban area
• period in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic

The increasing proportion or percentage of a country's total population that lives in urban areas is known as....

• rural to urban migration

• urban to rural migration

• urban sprawl

• urbanisation

The worlds largest mega cities are increasingly to be found in ...

• developed countries

• developing countries

• first world countries

• communist countries

The actual physical location of a city is referred to as its...

• site

• location

• situation

• bearing

Land values generally ....

• Increase as one moves away from the CBD

• decreases as one moves toward the CBD

• remain constant across most urban areas

• no answers are correct

The zone of transition surrounds the ....

• outlying business areas

• high income residential

• low income residential

• central business district

The land use zone located on the edge of towns and cities is known as the....

• rural urban spawl

• rural urban fringe

• rural urban divide

• rural urban boundary

The Burgess model of urban development is also known as the ....

• concentric zone model

• sector model

• central place model

• multiple nuclei model

The predominance of high rise building in the CBD is due to.....

• high land values

• high pedestrian traffic

• low land values

• high vehicle traffic

Commercial ribbon development usually takes places....

• around green belts

• along important traffic routes

• near suburban shopping centres

• in the CBD