APHUG Chapter 18

Question 1

Ecumene

Answer 1

The land where people made their permanent home

Question 2

Urban

Answer 2

Cities with high concentration of people

Question 3

Suburbs

Answer 3

Residential areas near cities

Question 4

Rural

Answer 4

Areas like farms and villages with low concentration of people

Question 5

Settlement

Answer 5

A place with a permanent population

Question 6

Urbanization

Answer 6

A process of developing towns and cities

Question 7

Percent Urban

Answer 7

An indicator of the proportion of the population

Question 8

Suburbanization

Answer 8

The process of people moving from cities to a residential area

Question 9

Reurbanization

Answer 9

Suburbanites return to live city

Question 10

Exurbanization

Answer 10

Moving people farther out into rural areas due to remotely working

Question 11

Satellite City

Answer 11

An established town near a very large city grows into a city independent of the larger one

Question 12

City-State

Answer 12

Where there’s an urban center with its surrounding being territory and villages. (They get goods and protection from urban cities)

Question 13

Metro Area

Answer 13

Collection of adjacent cities which population density is high and continuous

Question 14

Metropolititan

Answer 14

A city that consists of at least 50,000 people

Question 15

Micropolitan Statistical Areas

Answer 15

Cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants but less than 50,000

Question 16

Nodal Reigon

Answer 16

a social or economic function that occurs between a node or focal point and the surrounding areas

Question 17

Social Heterogeneity

Answer 17

The population in these types of cities contain a great variety of people

Question 18

Space time compression

Answer 18

The way that the word is seemingly getting smaller due to increased transportations

Question 19

Borcherts Model

Answer 19

A model that describes urban growth based on transportation technology

Question 20

Pedestrian cities

Answer 20

Cities shapped by the distance people could walk

Question 21

Streetcar suburbs

Answer 21

communities that grew up along rail lines, emerged often creating a pinwheel shaped city

Question 22

Urban System

Answer 22

Citiesthat depend on each other in a reigion

Question 23

Gravity model

Answer 23

The model says that places that are closer together will have a greater interaction than places smaller and farther away

Question 24

Rank Size Rule

Answer 24

if all cities in a country are placed in order. from the largest to the smallest, each one will have a population half the size of the preceding city.The rule describe one way in which cities within a region may develop

Question 25

Primate City

Answer 25

The largest settlement in a country, must have MORE than 2x the people than the second ranking city.

Question 26

Central Place Theory

Answer 26

Theory explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a reigion

Question 27

Market Area

Answer 27

An area that provides goods and services and while doing this draws in population

Question 28

Hexagonal Hinterlands

Answer 28

A surrounding area served by an urban center

Question 29

Threshold

Answer 29

A size of population is necessary for any population service to exist and remain profitable

Question 30

Range

Answer 30

The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods

Question 31

Megacities

Answer 31

Worlds largest cities typically have more than 10 million people

Question 32

World Cities/Global Cities

Answer 32

An urban city that is a major player in the global economy and is connected to a network of other global cities through economic, cultural, and political linkage

Question 33

Megalopolis

Answer 33

A chain of connected cities whos population exceeds 10 million. Ex: Costal side of the US

Question 34

Conurbation

Answer 34

An extended urban area typically consisiting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities