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42 Cards in this Set
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Which feature typical of ancient urbanization was not present in the Nile River Valley Hearth
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Defensive Walls
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Paris and Mexico City are many times larger than the second-ranked city in their respective countries. Their disproportionate size illustrates
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the concept of the primate city
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After 1970, new suburban downtows (edge cities) were spawned in the outer city of Los Angeles, with their leading concentrations
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near key freeway intersections
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In which of the following regions did urbanization develop first?
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Mesopotamia
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What term came into use to describe the spatial components of the metropolis of the late twentieth century?
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urban realms
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Segregation in the United States was reinforced by the financial practice known as
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redlining
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ANcient Cities were not large by modern standards. The cities of Mesopotamian and the Nile River Valley probably had populations of
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10,000 to 15,000
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A hinterland reveals the ...... of each settlement
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economic reach
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A structural element of many Latin American cities, the disamenity sector is illustrated by the
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barrios or favelas
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In a mdoel urban hierarchy the population of a citym town or village is inversely proportional to its rank in the system. This is known as
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Rank-size rule
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Peter Muller's analysis or suburabanization indicated that suburbs were
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evolving into self sufficient urban entity with its own economic and culutral components
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Rome created a huge urban system. The integration of the Roman Empire was greatly facilitated by a
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transportation system
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The growth of ethnic neighborhoods in ----- is less than in other european countries
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the Netherlands
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Ancient towns and cities owed much of their success and growth to certain stie advantages. Which of the following was not one of these advantages?
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good supplies of coal and iron
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What structures dominated to urban landscape of the ancient Mesopotamian cities?
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temples
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The response of the urban system of the American South and Southwest to the influx or migrants over the past three decades conforms with predictions of central place theory. This is called the ------phenomenon
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sunbelt
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In core area citie the practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raisin of housing values and social cahange in neighborhoods is called
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gentrification
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Where did the first urban development origionate?
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Southwest Asia
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Human communities have existed for 100,000 years but some did not start to grow into larger places until about ---- years ago
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8,000
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In the Latin American city, where are the homes of the most impoverished and unskilled residents?
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on the outermost xone or peripheral fringe
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Which of the following countries is least urbanized?
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China
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The Parthenon of AThens is a structure typical of ancient Greek cities. It is a(n)
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acropolis
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Buying a Native American styled dream catcher at a Wal-Mart store would possibly be an example of
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cultural persistence
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A culture's assumptions about the differences between men and women, their chaaracterm roles and divisions of labor are referred to as
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gender
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When places are designed either for women or ment they are said to be
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sex zones
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------- culture is conceived as small,m incorporating a homogeneous population, typically rurall and cohesive in cultural traits.
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Folk
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Shintoism is a major religion in
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japan
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Which of the following is not an example of a natural landscape?
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A rain forest
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The carrying capacity of an area is based most closely on its
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total fertility rate
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a geographic boundary within wich a particular linguistic feature occurs is called a/an
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isogloss
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Government efforts to discourage native practice and languages in the United States and Canada were attempts to ------ native groups
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assimilate
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Dialects are most often amerked by actual differences in
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vocabulary
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The country of Indonesia is a good example of a state with problems caused by
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fragmentation
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The boundaries of independent African states were drawn at the Berlin Conference and were essentially drawn
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arbitrarily
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in The Territorial Imperative Rober Ardery argued that humans are concerned with
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collecting and securing territory
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The city of Brasilia was built primarily to serve as Brazil's
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forward capital
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With respect to the north American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada and Mexico, which of the following statements is NOT true?
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it outlines an eventual supranational governing body for North America
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Consequent boundaries may also be defined as
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cultural
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A region caught between powerful forces whose boundaries are continually redefined is known as a
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shatterbelt
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The promotion of the acquisition of wealth through plunder, colonization, and the protection of home industries and foreign markets during Europe's rebirth was called......
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mercantilism
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Recent geopolitical theory emphasizes the deconstruction of spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of leading wester politicians and analysis of the way their ideas are used to manipulate public opinion. this field of research is called
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Critical geopolitics
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The movement of power from the central government to regional governments is referred to as ....
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devolution
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