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City Patterns (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

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11 mark

Cities which are disproportionately bigger than the next biggest city, is known as

  • Urban areas

  • Metacity

  • Megacity

  • Primate city

  • World city

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21 mark

London specializes in finance. Why might this be?

  • London is at the top of the urban hierarchy

  • Because of the rank-size rule

  • Comparative advantage

  • London is a primate city

  • This is explained by the Central Place Theory

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31 mark

According to the rank-size rule, the fourth largest city in a country or region is what size compared to the size of the largest city?

  • ¼

  • ⅓

  • ½

  • ⅕

  • ⅙

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41 mark

Which of the following businesses would require a high threshold?

  • The corner shop

  • An airport

  • Gas station

  • Supermarket

  • Cafe

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51 mark

Which of the following is not a high-range service?

  • Specialist neonatal unit

  • The Hollywood Bowl

  • A store viral on TikTok

  • Dunkin Donuts

  • Zero waste store

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61 mark

Who coined the Central Place Theory?

  • Isaac Newton

  • Mark Jefferson

  • Walter Christaller

  • George Zipf

  • Ernest Burgess

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71 mark

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What can be found in the commuter zone of the Burgess Model? 

  • Working-class families in older buildings

  • Suburban residences, with people that travel to work in the city centre

  • The commercial area, with no residential sections

  • Newer and spacious homes, typically owned by the middle-class 

  • Dense, poorer housing and industry

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81 mark

According to Hoyt’s model, what kind of housing exists alongside the industrial corridor? 

  • Upper-class residential housing

  • Dispersed housing

  • Lower-class residential housing

  • Middle-class residential housing

  • Clustered housing

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91 mark

What does the Latin American city model and Sub-saharan city model include that other models do not?

  • Squatter settlements 

  • Industry at the edges of cities

  • Nodes

  • Transportation lines

  • A CBD

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101 mark

What kind of cities is the Galactic city model used for?

  • Post-industrial cities

  • Post-colonial cities

  • Industrializing cities

  • Pre-industrial cities

  • Gentrified cities

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111 mark
Diagram showing a central city model with numbered zones: residential, mall, industrial, office park, service centre, airport, and combined centre.

The city structure model above is known as the

  • The Burgess concentric-zone model

  • The Hoyt Sector Model

  • The Galactic City Model

  • The Harris and Ullman multiple-nuclei model

  • Harm de Blij’s African City Model

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121 mark

 Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Latin American city model?

  • Spine

  • Zones of squatter settlements 

  • An area of gentrification

  • Colonial CBD

  • An area for elite residence

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131 mark

According to what theory or model does the idea that the price of land increases, the closer to the CBD

  • Urban hierarchy

  • Rank-size rule

  • Central Place theory

  • Harris and Ullman’s multiple nuclei model

  • Bid-rent theory

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