Urban Patterns Quiz - Geography Quiz

A key topic in human geography is the way in which people set up the structure of their communities. The following 20 questions test your ability to analyze and recall urban patterns and settlement organizations across the world.

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1. Question

The central business district (CBD) contains all but which of the following?

2. Question

The CBD is at the center of

3. Question

In the early twentieth century, if people in the lower economic class walked from their homes to a ring of factories and if middle class people rode streetcars to those factories, then the city most likely followed which of the following models?

4. Question

A city follows which of the following models when its neighborhoods are built around transportation corridors that radiate out from a CBD?

5. Question

Bookstores, coffee shops, and pizzerias cluster around universities. Hotels, warehouses, and shipping services cluster around airports. Together, they represent

6. Question

Latin American cities are usually based on

7. Question

As American cities redevelop their CBDs, they provide a mix of housing, recreation, entertainment, and cultural amenities. These amenities attract people who are in the upper-income brackets. This phenomenon is known as

8. Question

How is the concentric zone model different in European cities than it is in North America?

9. Question

Which of the following explains why one might find low-income people living on the suburban fringe in European cities?

10. Question

If a metropolitan area develops a doughnut-shaped pattern in which the population density of the core declines while the population density the outer periphery increases, then the metropolitan area may be ringed with

11. Question

A city and its suburbs are known as a

12. Question

The continuous area of urbanized land from Boston to Washington, D.C., is a

13. Question

An area of a city with improvised housing made of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes on land that the residents do not own or rent is a(n)

14. Question

Which of the following was not a cause of rapid suburbanization in the United States in the 1950s?

15. Question

Which of the following did not exclude African Americans from settling in the suburbs?

16. Question

Suburban sprawl can be contained with

17. Question

The construction of which of the following paralleled the rise of suburbs in the 1950s?

18. Question

Which of the following is not true of gentrification?

19. Question

Which of the following theories, when applied to the local level, may explain the disparities in financial resources between cities and suburbs?

20. Question

A group of people trapped in an intergenerational poverty from which it is difficult to escape is known as a(n)