Option G Urban environments: Urban variety and change
15 revision questions with answers for Option G Urban environments: Urban variety and change, marked SL and HL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Physical characteristics of the land on which a settlement is built?
- SiteRight answer
- Situation
- Function
- Hinterland
What this set covers
Why cities are where they are and how they change is covered. Site and situation, primate cities, bid-rent theory, the Burgess and Hoyt models, suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation, gentrification, urban sprawl, informal settlements and brownfield sites appear.
- Common mix-up
- Students often mix up site and situation: site describes the physical land a settlement stands on, while situation describes its location relative to nearby features and places.
- Revision tip
- Sketch the concentric zone and sector models side by side and note which transport routes or rings shape each. Then define suburbanisation and counter-urbanisation without notes.
All 15 questions and answers
Physical characteristics of the land on which a settlement is built?
Answer: Site
Location of a settlement relative to surrounding features and other places?
Answer: Situation
Urban area more than twice the size of the next largest in its country?
Answer: Primate city
Model in which the price users will pay for land falls with distance from the CBD?
Answer: Bid-rent theory
Burgess's 1925 pattern of land-use rings around the centre of a city such as Chicago?
Answer: Concentric zone model
Hoyt's 1939 pattern of wedge-shaped land-use zones along transport routes?
Answer: Sector model
Movement of people and businesses from the inner city to the outskirts?
Answer: Suburbanisation
Movement of people out of large cities to smaller towns and the countryside?
Answer: Counter-urbanisation
Return of residents to live in previously declining city centres?
Answer: Reurbanisation
Wealthier people moving into a run-down inner-city area, renovating homes and displacing poorer residents?
Answer: Gentrification
Uncontrolled outward spread of low-density development into the countryside?
Answer: Urban sprawl
Unofficial housing built on land the occupants do not legally own?
Answer: Informal settlement
Work outside government regulation and taxation, such as street vending?
Answer: Informal sector
Decline of manufacturing employment in a city or region?
Answer: Deindustrialisation
Previously developed land, often derelict, available for reuse?
Answer: Brownfield site
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options were written for that question.