5 Written Questions

1. Government residency program in the United States that is reserved for low-income households, who must pay 30 percent of their income for rent.
2. A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of the various local governments in the region.
3. Also known as the peak hour, this is the four consecutive 15-minute periods that have the heaviest traffic.
4. Model that says a city grows in a series of rings that surround the central business district.
5. The functional area of a city with a population of at least 50,000.

5 Matching Questions

1. Census Tracts
2. Urban Renewal
3. Sector Model
4. Peripheral Model
5. Zoning Ordinances

1. a Model that says a city grows in a series of wedges or corridors that extend out from the central business district.
2. b Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, and build new roads and utilities.
3. c Ordinances developed in Europe and North America in the early decades of the twentieth century that encouraged spatial separation and prevented the mixing of land uses within the same district.
4. d Urban areas in the United States that contain approximately 5,000 residents and correspond to neighborhood boundaries where possible.
5. e Model that says an urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. The process of subdividing houses and occupancy by successive waves of lower income people.
   1. Redlining
   2. Sprawl
   3. Rush Hour
   4. Filtering
2. Smaller urban areas with a population between 10,000 and 50,000.
   1. Urbanized Area
   2. Zoning Ordinances
   3. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
   4. Micropolitan Statistical Areas
3. Name given to inner-city residents because they are trapped in an unending cycle of economic and social problems.
   1. Greenbelts
   2. Underclass
   3. Edge Cities
   4. Annexation
4. Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.
   1. Sprawl
   2. Rush Hour
   3. Filtering
   4. Smart Growth
5. Rings of open space designated by officials to attack sprawl.
   1. Sprawl
   2. Redlining
   3. Underclass
   4. Greenbelts

5 True/False Questions

1. Annexation → The process of legally adding land area to a city.

   True        False

2. Redlining → Act engaged by some banks in which they draw lines on a map to identify areas in which they will refuse to loan money.

   True        False

3. Sprawl → Also known as the peak hour, this is the four consecutive 15-minute periods that have the heaviest traffic.

   True        False

4. Edge Cities → Name given to inner-city residents because they are trapped in an unending cycle of economic and social problems.

   True        False

5. Density Gradient → The density change in an urban area.

   True        False