APHG - Barron's 6A Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
Action Space -
correct answer ✅The geographical area that contains the space an
individual interacts with on a daily basis.
Beaux Arts -
correct answer ✅This movement within city planning and urban
design that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with
newer, industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period
include wide thoroughfares, spacious parks, and civic monuments
that stressed progress, freedom, and national unity.
Blockbusting -
correct answer ✅As early as 1900, real estate agents and
developers encouraged affluent white property owners to sell their
homes and businesses at a loss by stoking fears that their
neighborhoods were being overtaken by racial or ethnic minorities.
Boomburb -
correct answer ✅A large, rapidly growing city that is suburban in
character but resembles population totals or large urban cores.
Borchert's Epochs -
correct answer ✅According to the geographer John R. Borchert,
, APHG - Barron's 6A Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
American cities have undergone five major epochs, or periods, of
development shaped by the dominant forms of transportation and
communication at the time. These include sail-wagon epoch (1790-
1830), iron horse epoch (1830-1870), steel rail epoch (1870-1920),
auto-air-amenity epoch (1920-1970), and satellite-electronic-jet
propulsion and high-technology epoch (1970-present).
Central Business District (CBD) -
correct answer ✅The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail
stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building
densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems
converge.
Central-Place Theory -
correct answer ✅A theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the
early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms
of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed
populations.
City Beautiful Movement -
correct answer ✅Movement in environmental design that drew
directly from the Beaux Arts School. Architects from this movement
strove to impart order on hectic, industrial centers by creating
urban spaces that conveyed a sense of morality and civic pride,
& Answers (Grade A+)
Action Space -
correct answer ✅The geographical area that contains the space an
individual interacts with on a daily basis.
Beaux Arts -
correct answer ✅This movement within city planning and urban
design that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with
newer, industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period
include wide thoroughfares, spacious parks, and civic monuments
that stressed progress, freedom, and national unity.
Blockbusting -
correct answer ✅As early as 1900, real estate agents and
developers encouraged affluent white property owners to sell their
homes and businesses at a loss by stoking fears that their
neighborhoods were being overtaken by racial or ethnic minorities.
Boomburb -
correct answer ✅A large, rapidly growing city that is suburban in
character but resembles population totals or large urban cores.
Borchert's Epochs -
correct answer ✅According to the geographer John R. Borchert,
, APHG - Barron's 6A Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
American cities have undergone five major epochs, or periods, of
development shaped by the dominant forms of transportation and
communication at the time. These include sail-wagon epoch (1790-
1830), iron horse epoch (1830-1870), steel rail epoch (1870-1920),
auto-air-amenity epoch (1920-1970), and satellite-electronic-jet
propulsion and high-technology epoch (1970-present).
Central Business District (CBD) -
correct answer ✅The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail
stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building
densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems
converge.
Central-Place Theory -
correct answer ✅A theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the
early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms
of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed
populations.
City Beautiful Movement -
correct answer ✅Movement in environmental design that drew
directly from the Beaux Arts School. Architects from this movement
strove to impart order on hectic, industrial centers by creating
urban spaces that conveyed a sense of morality and civic pride,
