AP Human Geography: Unit – 6 – Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes Practice Test

What was the most populous city in 1800?

Which is the illegal process by which real estate agents encourage the sale of homes because people of certain races have moved into a neighborhood?

Which of the following caused rapid suburbanization in the United States after the World War II?

I.Expansion of the interstate highway system
II.Government-subsidized mortgages for veterans
III.Mass production of the automobile
IV.Public housing programs

A person lives between a small settlement and a settlement that is three times the size of the small settlement. Which of the following is NOT a reason to shop in the larger of the two settlements?

Which of the following occupies the shaded area on the Concentric Zone Model shown here?

Which of these is not a characteristic of a central business district?

In Hoyt’s Sector Model, where is the factory/industry zone located?

Which of the following processes most influences the existence of a zone of transition in concentric urban growth patterns?

The Latin American city typically differs from the North American city in which of the following ways?

Which of the following is the smallest scale of geographic inquiry by the U.S. Census Bureau?

Which of the following central place functions is most likely to have the highest range of goods and highest threshold population?

Which of the following is a strong example of postmodern urban landscape?

According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in Country X has 100,000 inhabitants, how many people will live in Country X’s fourth-largest city?

The concept of exurbanization is illustrated in which of the following scenarios?
I.Thirty-three-year-old Marqueze and his wife move from Chicago to San Francisco to take advantage of a new job opportunity
II.Twenty-five-year-old Tina decides to move to the heart of New York City to enjoy cultural vibrancy and diversity during her youth.
III.Fifty-year-olds Margaret and Tom pack up and move to a rural, country- style home outside Louisville,       Kentucky, to escape the fast pace of city life.
IV.Nineteen-year-old MThe concept of exurbanization is illustrated in which of the following scenarios?
I.Thirty-three-year-old Marqueze and his wife move from Chicago to San Francisco to take advantage of a new job opportunity
Iarcus decided to move from the city he grew up in to a peripheral farm, both t experience rural labor and to write poetry

Planned communities would most likely be found in what type of urban setting?

Which of the following rivers was NOT a cultural hearth of urbanism?

The star-shaped city pattern resulted from the dominance of which transportation system?

Which of the following best describes the urban hierarchy of settlements?

According to Ullman and Harris’s multiple nuclei model, what develops at the outskirts of core cities?