Sure Questions

Question 1

Which River was the birthplace of the Shang Civilization ?

Answer 1

Yellow River

Question 2

This theory has led some writers to suggest that attempts to understand ‘natural’ as
opposed to planned settlement patterns in terms of spatial equilibrium theory are of
limited value.

Answer 2

Diffusion Theories

Question 3

Characterised by adherence to the ‘scientific method’ of investigation based on
hypothesis testing, statistical inference and theory construction.

Answer 3

Positivism

Question 4

The area immediately around one’s home; it usually displays some homogeneity in
terms of housing type, ethnicity or socio-cultural values.

Answer 4

The Neighbourhood

Question 5

A generic term for a set of principles and procedures designed to expose the
underlying causes of revealed patterns of human behaviour.

Answer 5

Structuralism

Question 6

Characterised by further growth of regional shopping malls and associated office,
hotel and restaurant facilities at accessible locations in the suburbs.

Answer 6

Catalytic Growth

Question 7

The first and smallest zone is the central business district (CBD). This is the focus of
the commercial, social and cultural life of the city, and the area where land values are
highest.

Answer 7

Zone 1

Question 8

It is when certain settlements grow at the cost of their surrounding countryside

Answer 8

Urbanisation

Question 9

Colonisation involves the search for economic information by the prospective
colonising power.

Answer 9

Exploration

Question 10

The product of the power relation between the different interest groups that constitute
a particular society.

Answer 10

Urban Policy

Question 11

Also called downtown or a principal element of all major models of urban land use.

Answer 11

CBD or Central Business District

Question 12

• The influence of demographic changes on cities and urban systems is seen clearly in
the way the ‘baby boom’ of the late 1940s and early 1950s was associated with strong
suburbanisation and deconcentration pressures as couples reaching the family-building
stage sought affordable homes with gardens and a safe and pleasant environment
within commuting distance of work

Answer 12

Baby Boom

Question 13

Both the USA and Canada experienced a ‘marriage and baby boom’ between 1948
and 1963. The resulting population expansion contributed to the rapid growth of the
consumer economy, to increased housing demand and new residential construction,
and to the evolution of new urban forms through widespread suburbanisation.

Answer 13

Baby Boom

Question 14

This is the term coined in 1915 by Geddes to describe a built-up area created
by the coalescence of once-separate urban settlements.

Answer 14

Conurbation

Question 15

This is an area focused on the major employment centre in a region and
encompassing the surrounding areas, for which it acts as the primary high-order service
centre.

Answer 15

The City Region

Question 16

is the territory within which daily movement takes place and is normally organised around often-used nodes, including home, workplace, friends’ houses and
shopping centres.

Answer 16

Activity space

Question 17

involves the dispersal of settlement into new territory

Answer 17

Colonisation

Question 18

Labour, who invested in labour with the goal of realising a profit.

Answer 18

Capitalists, False

Question 19

Colonisation involves the search for economic information by the prospective
colonising power.

Answer 19

Exploration, False

Question 20

Feudalism was a form of social organisation (or mode of production) characterised by
the interrelationship of two social groups.

Answer 20

True