Question 1

What is a merchant city?

Accepted Answer

A)  preindustrial city involved in international trade and commerce 
B)  site of development of a commercial society that regulates private interest 
C)  established civic communities that defined collective rules and the public realm 
D)  all of these 
A)  preindustrial city involved in international trade and commerce 
B)  site of development of a commercial society that regulates private interest 
C)  established civic communities that defined collective rules and the public realm 
D)  all of these D

Question 2

What is an example of a merchant city?

Accepted Answer

A)  Paris 
B)  Venice 
C)  London 
D)  Rome 
A)  Paris 
B)  Venice 
C)  London 
D)  Rome B

Question 3

What term refers to the unplanned, often illegal neighborhoods of self-built housing?

Accepted Answer

A)  subsidized housing 
B)  slums 
C)  dumps 
D)  informal housing 
A)  subsidized housing 
B)  slums 
C)  dumps 
D)  informal housing B

Question 4

What is accurate about the layout of the first preindustrial cities?

Accepted Answer

A)  poor located in the city center 
B)  elite located along the periphery 
C)  temples located at the city center 
D)  temples located at the periphery 
A)  poor located in the city center 
B)  elite located along the periphery 
C)  temples located at the city center 
D)  temples located at the periphery

Question 5

What caused the development of agriculture, providing enough demand in one place to stimulate new sources of food production?

Accepted Answer

A)  cities 
B)  religion 
C)  trade 
D)  animal domestication 
A)  cities 
B)  religion 
C)  trade 
D)  animal domestication

Question 6

What made urban sprawl possible?

Accepted Answer

A)  improvements in transportation 
B)  suburbanization of jobs 
C)  relatively cheap fuel 
D)  all of these 
A)  improvements in transportation 
B)  suburbanization of jobs 
C)  relatively cheap fuel 
D)  all of these

Question 7

What best describes the layout of the industrial city?

Accepted Answer

A)  factory production and nearby worker housing 
B)  agricultural fields that dominate small factories 
C)  temples encircled by the elite and then the poor 
D)  master-planned cities with parks and monuments 
A)  factory production and nearby worker housing 
B)  agricultural fields that dominate small factories 
C)  temples encircled by the elite and then the poor 
D)  master-planned cities with parks and monuments

Question 8

What country had its cities at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  Canada 
B)  Britain 
C)  United States 
D)  Germany 
A)  Canada 
B)  Britain 
C)  United States 
D)  Germany

Question 9

Where do the fastest rates of urban growth occur?

Accepted Answer

A)  northern hemisphere 
B)  developed countries 
C)  southern hemisphere 
D)  developing countries 
A)  northern hemisphere 
B)  developed countries 
C)  southern hemisphere 
D)  developing countries

Question 10

Where does the majority of the world's population now live?

Accepted Answer

A)  suburbs 
B)  rural areas 
C)  urban areas 
D)  coastal areas 
A)  suburbs 
B)  rural areas 
C)  urban areas 
D)  coastal areas

Question 11

What is an accurate description of the insecure residential status of slum dwellers?

Accepted Answer

A)  self-built housing is a universally, legally-recognized claim to the land 
B)  slums lack legal title to the land and are subject to government removal 
C)  self-built housing is often made of permanent materials to prevent demolition 
D)  slum dwellers were indigenous residents of the city, denied land rights recognition 
A)  self-built housing is a universally, legally-recognized claim to the land 
B)  slums lack legal title to the land and are subject to government removal 
C)  self-built housing is often made of permanent materials to prevent demolition 
D)  slum dwellers were indigenous residents of the city, denied land rights recognition

Question 12

What was the second urban revolution linked to?

Accepted Answer

A)  religious revival 
B)  new merchant class 
C)  industrialization 
D)  mass urbanization 
A)  religious revival 
B)  new merchant class 
C)  industrialization 
D)  mass urbanization

Question 13

According to the number of hours spent at work, what group has the most freedom and disposable time?

Accepted Answer

A)  rice farmers in southern China 
B)  American corn farmers 
C)  Kalahari hunter-gatherers 
D)  Brazilians growing sugarcane 
A)  rice farmers in southern China 
B)  American corn farmers 
C)  Kalahari hunter-gatherers 
D)  Brazilians growing sugarcane

Question 14

What characterizes the third urban revolution and the creation of larger city regions as the new building blocks of both national and global economies?

Accepted Answer

A)  globalization 
B)  metropolitanization 
C)  industrialization 
D)  urbanization 
A)  globalization 
B)  metropolitanization 
C)  industrialization 
D)  urbanization

Question 15

What did NOT occur with the urban-agricultural revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  a loss of freedom 
B)  greater work discipline 
C)  more time devoted to work 
D)  an ethic of social equality 
A)  a loss of freedom 
B)  greater work discipline 
C)  more time devoted to work 
D)  an ethic of social equality

Question 16

How many inhabitants turn a large urban agglomeration into a megacity?

Accepted Answer

A)  1 million 
B)  5 million 
C)  10 million 
D)  25 million 
A)  1 million 
B)  5 million 
C)  10 million 
D)  25 million

Question 17

What is NOT a characteristic of the third urban revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  rapid, global change 
B)  increasing size of individual cities 
C)  cities as part of large metropolitan regions 
D)  ample affordable housing provided formally 
A)  rapid, global change 
B)  increasing size of individual cities 
C)  cities as part of large metropolitan regions 
D)  ample affordable housing provided formally

Question 18

What is NOT a marker of a "slum of hope"?

Accepted Answer

A)  continued buildup into fully formed urban neighborhoods 
B)  more buildings constructed from permanent materials 
C)  receives municipality status, legal title, and public services 
D)  rapid expansion into environmentally hazardous areas 
A)  continued buildup into fully formed urban neighborhoods 
B)  more buildings constructed from permanent materials 
C)  receives municipality status, legal title, and public services 
D)  rapid expansion into environmentally hazardous areas

Question 19

What is most negatively impacted by the expansion of megacities?

Accepted Answer

A)  ecosystems and biophysical systems 
B)  transportation and energy systems 
C)  political systems and governments 
D)  social systems and inequality 
A)  ecosystems and biophysical systems 
B)  transportation and energy systems 
C)  political systems and governments 
D)  social systems and inequality

Question 20

What were the earliest cities particularly vulnerable to?

Accepted Answer

A)  ecological collapse 
B)  scarcity of building supplies 
C)  demographic collapse 
D)  conquest and looting 
A)  ecological collapse 
B)  scarcity of building supplies 
C)  demographic collapse 
D)  conquest and looting

What is a merchant city?

What is an example of a merchant city?

What term refers to the unplanned, often illegal neighborhoods of self-built housing?

What is accurate about the layout of the first preindustrial cities?

What caused the development of agriculture, providing enough demand in one place to stimulate new sources of food production?

What made urban sprawl possible?

What best describes the layout of the industrial city?

What country had its cities at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution?

Where do the fastest rates of urban growth occur?

Where does the majority of the world's population now live?

What is an accurate description of the insecure residential status of slum dwellers?

What was the second urban revolution linked to?

According to the number of hours spent at work, what group has the most freedom and disposable time?

What characterizes the third urban revolution and the creation of larger city regions as the new building blocks of both national and global economies?

What did NOT occur with the urban-agricultural revolution?

How many inhabitants turn a large urban agglomeration into a megacity?

What is NOT a characteristic of the third urban revolution?

What is NOT a marker of a "slum of hope"?

What is most negatively impacted by the expansion of megacities?

What were the earliest cities particularly vulnerable to?

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Exam 16: The Urban Transformation

What is a merchant city?

What is an example of a merchant city?

What term refers to the unplanned, often illegal neighborhoods of self-built housing?

What is accurate about the layout of the first preindustrial cities?

What caused the development of agriculture, providing enough demand in one place to stimulate new sources of food production?

What made urban sprawl possible?

What best describes the layout of the industrial city?

What country had its cities at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution?

Where do the fastest rates of urban growth occur?

Where does the majority of the world's population now live?

What is an accurate description of the insecure residential status of slum dwellers?

What was the second urban revolution linked to?

According to the number of hours spent at work, what group has the most freedom and disposable time?

What characterizes the third urban revolution and the creation of larger city regions as the new building blocks of both national and global economies?

What did NOT occur with the urban-agricultural revolution?

How many inhabitants turn a large urban agglomeration into a megacity?

What is NOT a characteristic of the third urban revolution?

What is NOT a marker of a "slum of hope"?

What is most negatively impacted by the expansion of megacities?

What were the earliest cities particularly vulnerable to?

The Home Planet

The Nature of Geography

Population Dynamics

Population and Food

Population and Resources

People and the Environment

The Geography of Three Economic Sectors

The Economic Geography of Uneven Development

The Geography of Population

The Geography of Religion

The Geography of Language

Creating a Global Economy

The Global Geography of Culture

World Orders

The Nation-State

Networks of Cities

The Internal Structure of the City

Filters