(Henslin 12e Test Bank) (14—12)
a. megacity.
b. metropolis.
c. megaregion.
d. edge city.
TB_Q14.3.30
A _____ is an urban area consisting of at least two metropolises and their many
suburbs.
a. megacity
b. megaregion
c. city
d. megalopolis
TB_Q14.3.31
When a city has 10 million or more residents, it is a(n)
a. evolved city.
b. megacity.
c. megaregion.
d. metropolitan statistical area (MSA).
TB_Q14.3.32
(Henslin 12e Test Bank) (14—13)
A(n) _____ merges megacities and nearby populated areas into an even larger
mass of people.
a. edge city
b. metropolis
c. city
d. megaregion
TB_Q14.3.33
The U.S. Census Bureau divides the United States into 274
a. tax bases.
b. suburbs.
c. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs).
d. sub-states.
TB_Q14.3.34
The world’s largest megacity is
a. Tokyo.
b. New York.
c. Mexico City.
d. Mumbai.
TB_Q14.3.35
The most rural state in the United States is
a. Maine.
b. California.
c. New York.
d. Michigan.
TB_Q14.3.36
A(n) _____ is a large clustering of service facilities and residential areas near
highway intersections that provides a sense of place to people who live, shop, and
work there.
a. suburb
b. edge city
c. city
d. megaregion
TB_Q14.3.37
Jim bought a foreclosed house in a rundown part of town. The price was a
bargain. The place needed a great deal of fixing up, but it was located right smack
in the middle of town. Others like him were also moving into the area and fixing
up old houses. Jim was taking part in
a. building a suburb.
b. gentrification.
c. an edge city.
d. development of a megaregion.
TB_Q14.3.38
A _____ is a community located just outside of a city.
a. megalopolis
b. gentrified area
c. suburb
d. metropolis
TB_Q14.3.39
In the process of _____, people move from cities to suburbs.
a. urbanization
b. gentrification
c. suburbanization
d. rural rebound
TB_Q14.4.40
_____ describes the relationship between people and their environment, such as
land and structures.
a. Environmentalism
b. The multiple-nuclei model
c. Invasion–succession cycle
d. Human ecology
TB_Q14.4.41
In the concentric zone model of Burgess (1925), commuters live in Zone
a. 1.
b. 2.
c. 3.
d. 5.
TB_Q14.4.42
The sector model modified the concentric zone model by
a. excluding wholesale and light manufacturing.
b. placing sectors, like pie slices, that cut through the concentric zones.
c. excluding lower-class residential areas.
d. including upper-class residential areas.
TB_Q14.4.43
The result of the multiple-nuclei model is that
a. services are not spread evenly throughout the city.
b. heavy manufacturing is excluded.
c. the city has a single center.
d. services are spread evenly throughout the city.
TB_Q14.4.44
In the invasion–succession model, one group of people _____ another group
whose racial–ethnic or social class characteristics differ from their own.
a. welcomes
b. rents housing to
c. intermarries with
d. displaces
TB_Q14.4.45
The _____ model shows the impact of radial highways on the movement of
people and services away from the central city to the outskirts.
a. peripheral
b. multiple-nuclei
c. radial
d. sector
TB_Q14.5.46
The term alienation was coined by
a. Max Weber.
b. Herbert Gans.
c. Homer Hoyt.
d. Karl Marx.
TB_Q14.5.47
According to the principle of diffusion of responsibility, the _____ bystanders to
an incident that there are, the _____ likely people are to help.
a. fewer; less
b. fewer; more
c. more; more
d. better armed; more
TB_Q14.6.48
_____ is a decision by a bank not to make loans in a particular area.
a. Urban renewal
b. Redlining
c. Disinvestment
d. Deindustrialization
TB_Q14.6.49
Urban renewal, which rehabilitates a rundown area, usually results in
a. new job opportunities for the poor.
b. improved housing for the poor.
c. displacement of the poor who are living there.
d. an increase of the poor population in the renewed area.
TB_Q14.6.50
_____, which use(s) economic incentives in a designated area to encourage
investment, attract(s) businesses to an area.
a. Redlining
b. Enterprise zones
c. Urban renewal
d. Disinvestment
Essay Questions
TB_Q14.1.51: Are the Anti-Malthusians optimistic about our future? What do
they believe?
TB_Q14.1.52: Since the 1990s, world hunger has dropped 40%. With the
enormous population increase since the 1990s, how was this possible?
TB_Q14.3.53: Describe the historical development of cities.
TB_Q14.5.54: Which five types of urban dwellers did Gans (1968, 1991)
identify?
(Henslin 12e Test Bank) (14—21)
TB_Q14.6.55: Sociologist William Flanagan (1990) suggested three principles of
public sociology to apply to go beyond replacing old buildings with new ones to
building community. What are they?