Question 45 Which of the following is likely to have the largest range?

An ice cream shop
A fast-food restaurant
A chain bookstore
A gas station
An amusement park
Question 46
What does a concentric zone model city resemble?

Circles within circles
The axis of a wheel
A Venn diagram
The letter Y
Overlapping hexagons
Question 47
The sector model (or Hoyt model) is based on which of the following assumptions?

Wealthy residents live far from the city.
Cities develop along transportation lines.
People tend to cluster near similar people.
Ghettoization happens in the middle of cities.
Factories are all grouped in one area of the city.
Question 48
Which of the following is likely to form the center of one of the city's nuclei under the multiple nuclei model?

A railway
A river
A university
A shopping center
I and III
I and IV
II and III
II and IV
III and IV
Question 49

Which of the following shows how edge cities have changed the employment picture of big cities?

Samantha works downtown in a large hospital.
Keisha lives and works in the same suburb.
Maria is employed in an automobile factory.
David has been unemployed for the past two years.
Robert works on a farm outside the city.
Question 50
During the second half of the 20th century, what process caused the population of cities in developed countries to drop?

Smart growth
Gentrification
Urban renewal
Suburbanization
Industrialization
Question 51
Which of the following are causes of ghettoization?

White flight
Redlining
Suburbanization
Gentrification
I and II
I and IV
II and III
II and IV
III and IV
Question 52
According to the density gradient, which of the following is MOST likely to be found farther from a U. S. city’s core?

Ranch-style houses
McMansions
Rowhouses
High-rise condominiums
I and II
I and IV
II and III
II and IV
III and IV
Question 53
Which of the following is the easiest type of public transportation to build?

Ferries
Subways
Light rail
Commuter buses
Trains
Question 54
Which of the following people would be MOST likely to oppose City A annexing a neighboring upper-middle-class suburb?

An official in the city government concerned with declining revenue
A father of school-age children in the suburb
An urban police chief facing budget cuts
A suburban homeowner enjoying low property taxes
I and II
I and III
II and III
II and IV
III and IV
Question 55
What sort of information would be useful in planning a new upscale shopping center?

Economic distribution in the city
Population density of city neighborhoods
Areas zoned for businesses
Type of metropolitan government
I and III
I and IV
II and III
II and IV
III and IV
Question 56
Graph image that shows the probability that members of each ethnic group will meet members of their own group in the census tract in LA County from 1940–2000. The graph shows that whites had a high probability of meeting other whites in the 1940s, but that probability steadily declined until reaching a low in 2000. The graph shows that blacks had a medium-level probability of meeting other blacks, but that number reached a peak in the 1970s before declining rapidly to reach an all-time low in 2000. The graph shows that the probability of Hispanics meeting Hispanics was at an all-time low in the 1940s but rapidly increased to reach an all-time high in 2000. The graph shows that Asians had a low probability of meeting other Asians in 1940, and that probability remained low through the years until 2000.

Which of the following could be inferred from this graph?

White neighborhoods are becoming more racially integrated.
Hispanic neighborhoods are becoming more racially diverse.
The Hispanic population in Los Angeles is decreasing.
Asian American neighborhoods are becoming more diverse.
African American neighborhoods are becoming more segregated.