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Unit 6

6.12 Multiple Choice Questions

3 min read•december 3, 2021

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Multiple Choice Practice for Cities and Urban Land Use

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Facts about the test: The AP Human Geography exam has 60 multiple choice questions and you will be given 1 hour to complete the section. That means it should take you around 1 minute per question.

*The following questions were not written by College Board and, although they cover information outlined in the AP Human Geography Course and Exam Description, the formatting on the exam may be different.

1. Which of the following area classification houses the smallest population?

A. Hamlet

B. City

C. Town

D. Village

2. When looking at models like the Central Place theory, does range or threshold cover a smaller area?

A. Threshold

B. Range

C. Depends on the market

D. They are the same size

3. Which of the following models, besides Latin America/Griffen-Ford, has a high class residential ray/spine from the CBD?

A. De Bilj's Sub Saharan Africa Model

B. Harris & Ulman's Multiple Nuclei Model

C. Burgess' Concentric Zone Model

D. Hoyt's Sector Model

4. Which of the following are located in the CBD?

A. Public Services

B. Business Services

C. Consumer Services

D. All of the above

5. In North America, which zone are skyscrapers usually located inside of?

A. Zone in Situ

B. Residential Suburbs

C. CBD

D. Squatter Settlements

6. Which vocab term could be defined as 'A zone with high population density at the core which decreases as you go farther from the hearth'?

A. None of the Above

B. Conurban Area

C. Megalopolis

D. Metropolitan Statistical Area

7. Which of the following is NOT a hearth of urbanization?

A. Peru/Incan

B. Mesopotamia

C. Greek/Roman Civilization

D. Indus River Valley

8. "Fiveablelandia has cities with populations shown below:

APHuG City = 320,000

Enviro Town = 210,000

Stats Village = 180,000

... [more cities rankings not listed]

Which of the following rules does Fiveablelandia follow?"

A. Rank-Size Rule

B. Primate City Rule

C. Forward Capital Rule

D. None of the Above

9. The Atlanta BeltLine features many running and walking paths as well as ones for bikes to allow people to safely and cleanly move around the city (without cars). This is an example of _____.

A. New Urbanist Society

B. A Green Belt

C. Urban Sprawl

D. Urban Revitalization

10. Which of the following shapes and why does the Central Place Theory use it?

A. Hexagons; To allow the different zones to connect/touch with geometric shapes

B. Circles; To more accurately model the area of land usage

C. Circles; Other urban models use circles for their zones (Concentric Model)

D. Hexagons; The shape represents clustered/uneven populations best

11. When a population map shows high concentration of clearly black and clearly white neighborhoods separated, but both in Central Cities, this best represents the impacts of a history of _____.

A. Blockbusting

B. Redlining

C. Urban Sprawl

D. White Flight

12. Which of the following is NOT a Global Giant/World City?

A. Tokyo

B. Berlin

C. London

D. Paris

13. In the DeBilj Model, which of the following correctly identifies the type(s) of CBDs?

A. Colonial, Traditional, Market

B. Market ONLY