Quiz questions

Question 1

What type of activities are generally not found in CBD’s?

Answer 1

Manufacturing industries

Question 2

The three models of urban structure all agree on one thing:

Answer 2

Most people tend to prefer to live near other who have the same characteristics.

Question 3

Where do the poor generally live in European cities?

Answer 3

In housing projects in the suburbs.

Question 4

How are North American suburbs seregated?

Answer 4

According to land use, through the use of zoning ordinances, and by social class.

Question 5

What is the exception in the downward trend in public transportation?

Answer 5

Rapid transit

Question 6

Why were rural settlements in Anglo-America and England converted from clustered settlements to dispersed settlements?

Answer 6

To improve agricultural production

Question 7

Which occupation is not part of the tertiary sector?

Answer 7

Construction

Question 8

A market area is a good example of what kind of region?

Answer 8

Nodal

Question 9

For religious reasons, periodic markets are not held on Friday in:

Answer 9

Saudi Arabia

Question 10

A “Kraal” is which type of settlement?

Answer 10

Clustered rural

Question 11

In most MDC’s, services comprise ____ of the country’s GDP, compared to ____ in LDC’s.

Answer 11

two-thirds; less than half

Question 12

What are the three characteristics Louis Wirth used to define a city?

Answer 12

Large size, High density, Social hetergeneity

Question 13

What percentage of the world lives in cities?

Answer 13

three-fourths in MDCs, and two-fifths in LDCs.

Question 14

How many cities are there with more than 10 million inhabitants?

Answer 14

19

Question 15

Why is urban population growth occurring in LDCs?

Answer 15

migration from the countryside is happening even though job opportunities might not be available.

Question 16

Describe the Central Place Theory

Answer 16

It explains how the most profitable location can be identified.

Question 17

What are the element of Market-Area Analysis?

Answer 17

Profitability to a location; optimal location within a market

Question 18

What are the current world cities?

Answer 18

New York, London, and Tokyo

Question 19

What is a world city?

Answer 19

The center of flow of information and capital

Question 20

What are offshore financial services?

Answer 20

small countries, usually islands or microstates, exploit niches in the circulation of global capital by offering offshore financial services.

Question 21

What are back offices?

Answer 21

A second distinctive type of business service found in peripheral regions.

Question 22

Why do LDCs want back offices?

Answer 22

Low wages and ability to speak English

Question 23

Why does talent distribute differently between cities?

Answer 23

Job opportunities; talented individuals will sometimes migrate to cities that offer more cultural diversity.

Question 24

The textile industry accounts for ___ percent of the dollar value of world manufacturing but ___ percent of world maufacturing employment

Answer 24

6; 14

Question 25

Describe the importance of capital in industrial locations

Answer 25

Necessary for businesses to start or expand

Question 26

What are interregional shifts in manufacturing?

Answer 26

When manufacturing jobs go across a region.

Question 27

What are right to work laws?

Answer 27

It requires a factory to maintain an open shop and prohibits a closed shop.

Question 28

What is an "open shop"?

Answer 28

A union and a company may not negotiate a contract that requires workers to join a union as a condition of employment.

Question 29

What is the new international division of labor?

Answer 29

Selective transfer to some jobs in LDCs.

Question 30

What are two reasons some of the companies are returning to generally less attractive areas like the northeastern United States?

Answer 30

Availability of skilled labor and rapid delivery to market

Question 31

compared to 30 years ago, it's actually fairly difficult to say whether a car is made in America (domestic) or made in another country (foreign.) What are the three distinctions that the US government makes?

Answer 31

Fuel efficiency--at least 75% of it's content comes from North America; having at least 50% Canadian and U.S content; At least 85% of the parts originate in the U.S and Canada.

Question 32

From which country do car companies import the largest amount of cars?

Answer 32

Mexico

Question 33

The one most important to the development of factories was the:

Answer 33

Steam Engine

Question 34

Which of the following contributed to the delayed arrival of the Industrial Revolution across Europe?

Answer 34

Napoleonic wars

Question 35

In which city were railways built several decades before they appeared in the rest of Russia?

Answer 35

St. Petersburg

Question 36

This industrial region contains over 1,000 types of minerals, the most varied collection found in any mining region of the world.

Answer 36

Urals

Question 37

The least expensive mode of transport for shipping goods over long distances is by:

Answer 37

Ship

Question 38

According to Boserup's thesis that population growth corresponds to more intensive subsistence land use, which of the following is the stage characterized by the longest fallow period?

Answer 38

Forest fallow

Question 39

Out of rye, barley, wheat, oats, and yam, which one is not a cereal grain?

Answer 39

Yam

Question 40

What are the physical characteristics shared by all Mediterranean climatic areas in the world?

Answer 40

Land is hilly, all border a sea, summers are hot and dry, winters are wet with moderate temperatures.

Question 41

What is the most "typical" human?

Answer 41

An Asian farmer who grows food to survive, with little surplus.

Question 42

What does it mean to leave a field to fallow?

Answer 42

Plant nothing so the soil can recover.

Question 43

Do pastoral nomads eat their animals?

Answer 43

Mostly not; they consume mostly grain, not meat. They don't usually slaughter their animals, but why they die, the nomads will consume them.

Question 44

What is wet rice?

Answer 44

The practicing of planting rice on dry land in a nursery and then moving the seedlings to a flooded field to promote growth.

Question 45

How do you distinguish shifting cultivation from intensive subsistence agriculture?

Answer 45

In intensive subsistence agriculture, people have to work intensively to survive on a parcel of land. In shifting cultivation, people move crops every 3-6 years.

Question 46

What types of good are usually grown on plantations?

Answer 46

cotton, sugarcane, rubber, coffee, and tobacco.

Question 47

Where is mixed crop and livestock farming primarily found?

Answer 47

The United States to the west of the Appalachians, and east in much of Europe from France to Russia.

Question 48

What are three challenges of dairy farming?

Answer 48

Labor intensive, winter feed, and economic difficulties.

Question 49

How is grain grown in a commercial farm different from mixed crop and livstock grain farming?

Answer 49

crops on a grain farm are grown primarily for consumption by humans rather than by livestock.

Question 50

What type of agriculture is primarily practiced in the U.S. Southeast?

Answer 50

commercial gardening and fruit farming

Question 51

Where did truck farming get its name?

Answer 51

the middle English word "truck" meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities.

Question 52

Who was Johann Heinrich von Thunen?

Answer 52

An estate owner in Northern Germany; first proposed the model that explains the importance of proximity to market in the choice of crops on commercial farms in a book titled "The Isolated State".

Question 53

What are the four areas that the UN measure to get the HDI?

Answer 53

GDP per capita, Literacy rate, amount of education, life expectancy

Question 54

What is the highest score a country can get for HDI?

Answer 54

1.0

Question 55

Who currently had the highest HDI?

Answer 55

Norway

Question 56

Where does the U.S. rank for HDI?

Answer 56

13th.

Question 57

Why GDP useful?

Answer 57

We use GDP to get a sense of average incomes for various countries

Question 58

What are two major ways countries can choose to promote development?

Answer 58

Adopting policies that successfully promote development; finding funds to pay for development

Question 59

What is the self-sufficiency approach to development?

Answer 59

A country should spread investment as equally as possible across all sectors of its economy and regions.