AP Human Geo Unit 6

Question 1

What is:

Urbanization

(The … in the total number of people in an … settlement, as well as the percentage of … living in urban …s)

Answer 1

The increase in the total number of people in an urban settlement, as well as the percentage of people living in urban settlements

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Question 2

What are:

Megacities

(…s with … million or more …)

Answer 2

Cities with 10 million or more residents

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Question 3

What are:

Metacities

(Sprawling … areas with more than … … residents)

Answer 3

Sprawling urban areas with more than 20 million residents

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Question 4

What is:

Urban Sprawl

(Unrestricted growth in … areas of …, commercial …, and roads over large expanse of …)

Answer 4

Unrestricted growth in urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanse of land

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Question 5

What is:

Suburbanization

(Movement of …/… class people from … core areas to the surrounding …)

Answer 5

Movement of upper/middle class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts

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Question 6

What is:

Suburban sprawl

(Development of new … sites at relatively low … and at locations that are not … (connected) to the exsisting built up area)

Answer 6

Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous (connected) to the existing built-up area.

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Question 7

What are:

Boomburbs

(Suburb thats growing rapidly)

(Rapidly growing … … that represent a new … form)

Answer 7

Rapidly growing suburban cities that represent a new metropolitan form

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Question 8

What are:

Exurbs

(Think expensive)

(Prosperous residental … beyond the …)

Answer 8

Prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs

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Question 9

What are:

Edge cities

(Economic center on the fringe of a … with an extensive amount of … and … space, tipically near a major …)

Answer 9

Economic center on the fringe of a city with an extensive amount of office and retail space, typically near a major road

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Question 10

What’s a:

World City

(A city that has … not just within its …, but around the …)

Answer 10

A city that has influence not just within its region, but around the world

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Question 11

What is:

Globalization

(Increased connections between places around the … due to increases in … and trnasportation …)

Answer 11

Increased connections between places around the world due to increases in communication and transportation technology

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Question 12

What’s a:

Multinational Corportation

(A … that operates in its home …, as well as in other …s around the …)

Answer 12

A company that operates in its home country, as well as in other countries around the world

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Question 13

What’s the:

Central Place Theory

(Theory to help explain why consumer …s follow a regular pattern based on size of …s)

Answer 13

Theory to help explain why consumer services follow a regular pattern based on size of settlements

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Question 14

What’s the:

Central Place

(A market center for the exchange of …s and …s by people attracted from the surrounding area)

Answer 14

A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area

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Question 15

What’s a:

Market Area
(Hinterland)

(The area surround a … from which …s are attracted)

Answer 15

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted

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Question 16

What’s the:

Range

(The maximum … people are willing to travel to use a …)

Answer 16

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service

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Question 17

What’s a:

Threshold

(The minimum # of … to support the …)

Answer 17

The minimum number of people needed to support the service

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Question 18

What’s a:

Gravity Model

(A … that predicts that the best location of a … based on the # of … in the area and the … people must transfer to access it)

Answer 18

A model that predicts that the best location of a service based on the number of people in the area and the distance people must transfer to access it

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Question 19

What’s a:

Rank-Size Rule

(A rule that states that the country’s nth-largest … is 1/n the … of the largest …)

Answer 19

A rule that states that the country’s nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement

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Question 20

What’s a:

Primate City

(settlement)

(When the largest … is more than twice the … of the second ranking …)

Answer 20

When the largest settlement is more than twice the population of the second ranking settlement

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Question 21

What’s the:

Bid-Rent theory

(A … that explains how the … and demand for … …(land) changes based on the … from the marketplace)

Answer 21

A theory that explains how the price and demand for real estate (land) changes based on the distance from the marketplace

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Question 22

What’s the:

Central Business District

(The … and … center of a …)

Answer 22

The commerial and business center of a city

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Question 23

What’s:

Infrastructure

(The “… …” of a … and its economy that it needs in order to function)

Answer 23

The “Underlying Structure” of a country and its economy that it needs in order to fucntion.

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Question 24

What’s a:

Greenbelt

(Undeveloped land around … …)

Answer 24

Undeveloped land around urban area

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Question 25

# What's: Smart Growth ## Footnote (Policies to preserve ...)

Answer 25

Policies to preservce farmland ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 26

# What's: New Urbanism ## Footnote (Urbanism made to reduce urban ..., increase affordable ..., and create mixed-use ...s)

Answer 26

urbanism made to reduce urban sprawl, increase afforadble housing, and create mixed-use neighborhoods ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 27

# What's: De Facto Segregation ## Footnote (Segregation that results from ... settlement ...s rather than from ... laws)

Answer 27

Segregation that results from residental settlement patterns rather than from prejudicial laws ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 28

# What's Blockbusting ## Footnote (When one ethnic ... is convined to sell their ...s at a low price one they hear another ... group is moving into the ...)

Answer 28

When one ethnic group is convinced to sell their homes at a low price once they hear another ethnic group is moving into the neighborhood ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 29

# What is: Relining ## Footnote (When banks refuse ...s to those who want to purchase homes in certain ... areas)

Answer 29

When banks refuse loans to those who want to purchase homes in certain urban areas ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 30

# What is: White flight ## Footnote (The movement of white ... out of the ... in response to ... residents moving into the ...)

Answer 30

(Historically), this is the movement of white residents out of the city in response to black residents moving into the city 🙄 ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 31

# What are: Ghettos | (be more specific) ## Footnote (Areas of ... occupied by a speific ...)

Answer 31

Areas of poverty occupied by a specific ethnic group ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 32

# What's a: Food desert ## Footnote (An ... area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good quality ... ...d, usually in lower ... areas)

Answer 32

An urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordabe or good-quality fresh food, usually in lower income areas ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 33

# What's the: Underclass | (I wonder what group that is) ## Footnote (A group trapped in an unending cycle of ... and ... problems)

Answer 33

A group trapped in a unending cycle of economic and social problems ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 34

# What is: Gentrification ## Footnote (the process by which ...-class people move into ... inner-city neighborhoods and rennovate the ...)

Answer 34

The process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 35

# What are: Squatter Settlements ## Footnote (A residental area that has ... without legal ... to the ...)

Answer 35

A residental area that has developed without legal claims to the land ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 36

# What are: Brown Fields ## Footnote (Sites that have been ... and have some level of ... ...)

Answer 36

Sites that have been abandoned and have some level of environmental contamination ## Footnote This was the answer