Chapter 12: Human Settlements 
1. Which of the following describes a clustered compact rural settlement?
A) It has a center where several public buildings are located. 
B) The center is surrounded by houses and farmland.
C) Small garden plots are located in the first ring surrounding the houses.	
D) It has large cultivated land areas, pastures, and woodlands in successive rings.
E) All of the above
2. A ________, dominant in rural areas of the United States, Canada, Australia, and other regions, is 
    characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors.
A) clustered linear rural settlement
B) dispersed rural settlement
C) cluster circular rural settlement
             D) clustered compact rural settlement
3. The first regions of independent urbanism were in Mesopotamia and Egypt from around 3500 B.C.
A) True
B) False
4. The most important European cities were founded 
            A) during the first agricultural revolution.	
            B) in the Roman and medieval periods.	
            C) during the Industrial Revolution.
            D) after the Second World War.
5. Manchester, England and Chicago, USA are both examples of 
A) shock cities.
B) defensive strongholds.
C) ecclesiastical cities.
D) university centers.
6. Today, because of the importance of their financial markets and associated business services, 
    London, New York, and Tokyo dominate Europe, the Americas, and Asia, respectively.
A) True
B) False
7. Which of the following best describes the fifth ring of a city in the concentric model?
A) low class residential
B) medium class residential
C) high class residential
D) wholesale, light manufacturing
E) commuter zone
8. What makes European cities distinctive in comparison with North American cities is 
          A) their long history, being the product of several major epochs of urban development.
          B) their great urban management, having no illegal immigration issue.
9. Suburban sprawl in the U.S. is a result of
A) gentrification of the inner cities.
B) the tremendous amount of annexations of territory from surrounding counties.
10. Smart growth attempts to address the problem of
A) human-environment interaction.
B) gentrification.
C) annexation.
D) urban/suburban sprawl.
Answers: 1/E, 2/B, 3/A, 4/B, 5/A, 6/A, 7/C, 8/A, 9/B, 10/D