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No matter how large a settlement becomes, it does not become truly urban until: correct answers its workforce is divorced from the soil. How does the contemporary world's urban population growth rate compare with the overall population growth rate? correct answers The world's urban population ...

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CRP 291-Exam 1 ISU

No matter how large a settlement becomes, it does not become truly urban until:
correct answers its workforce is divorced from the soil.

How does the contemporary world's urban population growth rate compare with the
overall population growth rate? correct answers The world's urban population is
growing more rapidly than the world's population as a whole.

Montreal was founded on the banks of the St. Lawrence River where the Lachine
Rapids impeded upstream navigation. This is a description of Montreal's: correct
answers Site

For a place to be classified as urban by the U.S. Census Bureau, it must have at least
how many inhabitants? correct answers 2,500 (Urban Cluster)

_______ is used to describe the agreement that emerged between the IMF, The World
Bank, and the U.S. Treasury Department in the 1980s over the "right" economic policies
for developing countries. correct answers Washington Consensus

In which of the following regions would less than three-quarters of the population live in
urban areas? correct answers Southeast Asia

Which of the following regions currently has the greatest potential for urban growth?
correct answers Developing countries

Which of the following traditional models of city structure uses migration as a factor to
explain the internal structures of cities? correct answers Concentric zone model

Which of the following statements is not true of primate cities? correct answers The
size of any center can be predicted by its ranks and the size of the largest city (NOT
TRUE)

In the United States, which one of the following would have the largest population?
correct answers The Omaha Metropolitan Area

Urbanism correct answers Refers to all aspects of the urban way of life -political,
economic, social, etc

Urbanization- 2 Phases correct answers Movement of people from rural to urban
places, where they engage in primarily non-rural occupations;

Change in lifestyle that results from leaving the countryside

, Urban Places correct answers Defined by a minimum population size; differs from
place to place.

City correct answers Political designation; a place governed by some kind of
administrative body or organization

Defined not by size, although often bigger than a town or village.

Urbanized Area correct answers Built-up area where buildings, roads, & other essential
urban land use predominate

The city + its suburbs

Conurbation correct answers Several large urbanized areas merge into one

Metropolis correct answers The chief city (not necessarily the capital) of a country,
state or region; loosely refer to any large areas

Metropolitan Area correct answers A central city & peripheral jurisdictions, plus all
surrounding territories (urban or rural) integrated with the central city.

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) correct answers One or more central cities with at
least 50,000 inhabitants in the urban core

Plus all contiguous counties that have more than 75% of their pop engaged in
nonagricultural activities;

County boundaries are used as the statistical measuring units.

Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSAs) correct answers Made up of
several MSAs; often stretch across state boundaries

Site correct answers The physical environment on which the city originated and
evolved - includes geological structure, surface landforms, elevation, etc.

Situation correct answers The relative location of a city with respect to other places with
which it interacts

Preindustrial city (traditional city) correct answers Cities founded and grew before
industrialization
Are different from modern cities
Found mostly in the LDCs

Industrial city correct answers Cities whose economy is based on production of
industrial goods

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