APHUG Test 12
- 1.Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in
- A.
Agriculture.
- B.
Manufacturing.
- C.
Services.
- D.
Education.
- E.
Cities.
- 2.A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found close together is what kind of settlement?
- A.
Urban
- B.
Linear rural
- C.
Dispersed rural
- D.
Clustered rural
- E.
Primordial
- 3.In the United States about ________ of all jobs are in consumer services.
- A.
50 percent
- B.
10 percent
- C.
5 percent
- D.
75 percent
- E.
25 percent
- 4.Most people in the world live in what type of settlement?
- A.
Clustered rural
- B.
Dispersed rural
- C.
Urban settlement
- D.
Agricultural
- E.
Primordial
- 5.Consumer services include
- A.
Educational, retail, wholesale, social, leisure, and hospitality jobs.
- B.
Educational, retail, wholesale, professional, and financial service jobs.
- C.
Educational, retail, wholesale, and financial service jobs.
- D.
Health and social, professional, and financial service jobs.
- E.
Wholesale, social, leisure, and information service jobs.
- 6.The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the
- A.
Hinterland.
- B.
Range.
- C.
Threshold.
- D.
Median.
- E.
Meridian
- 7.The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is
- A.
Hinterland.
- B.
Range.
- C.
Threshold.
- D.
Median.
- E.
Meridian
- 8.The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the
- A.
Primate city.
- B.
Economic base.
- C.
Gravity model.
- D.
Rank-size rule.
- E.
Nesting of settlements.
- 9.A central place is a
- A.
Hinterland.
- B.
Market center.
- C.
Range of a good.
- D.
Rank-size distribution.
- E.
Hexagonal settlement.
- 10.If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution?
- A.
Central place
- B.
Economic base
- C.
Primate city
- D.
Rank-size
- E.
Equidistant
- 11.A primate city is
- A.
A city with political, economic, and cultural functions.
- B.
At least twice as large as the next smaller city.
- C.
The seat of a Roman Catholic diocese.
- D.
A rapidly growing city.
- E.
The center of gravity for a hinterland.
- 12.If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants, how many people live in the fifth largest city?
- A.
50,000
- B.
100,000
- C.
200,000
- D.
500,000
- E.
5,000,000
- 13.Periodic markets are likely to feature
- A.
Vendors who move from town to town.
- B.
Prices that change on a seasonal schedule.
- C.
Large sales after the holiday season.
- D.
A daily offering of business services throughout the year.
- E.
Consumer goods that change periodically in the central business district.
- 14.The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is
- A.
Directly related to the number of people and services in the area and inversely related to the lengths of highways and railways that access it.
- B.
Directly related to the range in the area and inversely related to the hinterland.
- C.
Directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.
- D.
Directly related to the median of people in the area and inversely related to the meridian of people who travel to access it.
- E.
Directly related to the distance people must travel and inversely related to the number of people in the area.
- 15.The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the
- A.
Hinterland.
- B.
Range.
- C.
Threshold.
- D.
Median.
- E.
Meridian.
- 16.The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the
- A.
Gravity model.
- B.
Population model.
- C.
Distance decay.
- D.
Gravitational model.
- E.
Threshold model.
- 17.Central Place Theory predicts larger settlements are
- A.
More numerous and closer together.
- B.
More numerous and farther apart.
- C.
Less numerous and farther apart.
- D.
Less numerous and closer together.
- E.
More numerous.
- 18.In a linear community, we can deduce that the best location for a service is the
- A.
Hinterland.
- B.
Range.
- C.
Threshold.
- D.
Median.
- E.
Meridian.
- 19.Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of
- A.
Economic, political, cultural, and infrastructure factors.
- B.
Economic, service, industrial, and infrastructure factors.
- C.
Central place theory and gravity models.
- D.
Hinterland models.
- E.
Political and infrastructure factors.
- 20.The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is
- A.
A circle.
- B.
A hexagon.
- C.
A square.
- D.
A pentagon.
- E.
An octagon.
- 21.A ________ is an example of a settlement that specializes in public services.
- A.
State capital
- B.
Hospital
- C.
Large casino complex
- D.
Shopping mall
- E.
Retirement community
- 22.The attraction of the outsourced "call center" industry to locate in India can best be explained by
- A.
Low wages and the wide use of English.
- B.
Low wages and geographic situational factors.
- C.
The wide use of English and the large number of working students.
- D.
Indian students' ability to work at night and geographic situational factors.
- E.
Low wages and desperate conditions.
- 23.The attraction of the outsourced "offshore banking" industry can best be explained by
- A.
Bank secrecy laws and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries.
- B.
Low wages, bank secrecy laws, and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries.
- C.
The wide use of English and the large number of working students in the Cayman Islands
- D.
The avoidance of paying taxes in other countries and the hiding of prostitution and capital crimes.
- E.
Corporate greed and the hiding of unethical and illegal behaviors, including prostitution.
- 24.Two major benefits many LDCs offer in terms of global financial services are
- A.
Tax breaks and privacy.
- B.
Command and control centers and low wages.
- C.
Dependent centers and tax breaks.
- D.
Command and control centers and dependent centers.
- E.
Privacy and low wages.
- 25.LDCs specialize in what two types of global business services?
- A.
Management consulting and staff training
- B.
Regional command and control centers
- C.
Biotechnology and medical research
- D.
Entertainment and recreation
- E.
Offshore financial and back office
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