Geography Quiz

The ring of small towns and suburbs that surround the urban core is called​​

• Urban
• Rural
• Urban Core
• Urban Fringe
• Rural Fringe

In or near a city is called​ ​

• Urban
• Urban Core
• Urban Fringe
• Rural Fringe

The small towns and farms that are located just beyond a city's suburbs are called ​

• Urban Core
• Urban Fringe
• Rural Fringe
• Rural

​ is far away from the city, and near farmland.

• Urban Fringe
• Rural Fringe
• Rural
• Urban
• Urban core

The oldest, most central part of a city , also known as the Central Business District or downtown is called ​

• Rural Fringe
• Rural
• Urban
• Urban Fringe
• Urban Core

Suburbs are one part of a Metropolitan Area.

• True

• False

The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and their surrounding towns and suburbs are a metropolitan area.

• True

• False

Urban Sprawl is

• The actual, physical land that a city is built upon

• A city with high population density in and around the urban core that includes public transportation and walkable streets

• The rapid, and often poorly planned spreading out of an urban area into the surrounding rural fringe

Mixed used development is:

• Development that combines housing and businesses in one building

• An area of open land or forest around a city to restrict development

• A city with more that 10 million people living in it

The unequal distribution of wealth in an area

• Mixed used development

• Redlining

• spatial inequality

• Ethnic neighborhood