UNIT 6 Urban Geography Quiz

The nodes or urban centers of the Texas Urban Core include

• Tyler, Longview, and Texarkana

• Austin, San Marcos, San Antonio

• Houston, Austin, Fredericksberg

• Lubbock, San Angelo, Abilene

• Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio

To qualify as a megacity, an urban center's population would be over -

• 500 thousand

• 1 million

• 5 million

• 10 million

• 50 million

What is the primary function of the following cities: Beijing, Mexico City, Moscow, Ottawa, and Washington, D.C.?

• port

• political

• religious

• military

• industrial

Every map has some degree of distortion because

• a curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distortion

• parallels and meridians never cross at right angles on a globe

• political boundaries change often and new maps cannot be made fast enough to show the changes

• a sphere is a developable surface

• cartographers have different motivations in creating maps to prove different points

The severity of poverty, slums, social inequalities and disease in megacities are primarily caused by

• insufficient and inadequate infrastructure

• communist governments

• increased dependency on the core countries

• unequal distribution of natural resources

• disproportionately large populations of refugees and immigrants

Land values are high in the CBD primarily because of

• competition for limited space

• high threshold and range

• less intensive land use

• construction of skyscrapers

• lack of residential space

For most of history, what has been the primary locational reason for most urban settlements?

• navigable waterway

• easily defensible

• within walking distance of arable land

• land inherited from tribal elders

• previously unoccupied land

A process of converting a neighborhood from low-income to middle-class is

• blockbusting

• filtering

• gentrification

• redlining

• self-segregation

To geographers, the spread of McDonald's around the world represents

• a popular fad

• a unique taste in nearly every location

• the relocation diffusion of restaurants

• economic and cultural globalization

• cultural divergence on a national scale

Despite an aggressive trend of gentrification, which of the following is typically not included in the core of the North American CBD and its surrounding area?

• entertainment

• government

• office

• retail

• industrial