ch 12

Question 1

suburb

Answer 1

subsidiary area, a functionally specialized segment of a large urban complex, dependent on an urban area

Question 2

Metropolitan area

Answer 2

refers to a large-scale functional entity, may contain several urbanized areas, discontinuously built up but operating as an integrated economic whole (already established)

Question 3

The five factors important for the early development of cities

Answer 3

-fertile soil nearby
-presence of water for transportation
-availability of building materials
-defensible situation
-technology for agricultural production and food transport and storage

Question 4

The common characteristic of cities today

Answer 4

they are nucleated, nonagricultural settlements

Question 5

basic sectors of the economic base

Answer 5

made up of the activities of people that bring in money from outside the community

Question 6

nonbasic sectors of the economic base

Answer 6

workers produce goods or services for residents of the city itself

Question 7

The 3 main functions of cities

Answer 7

-central place functions: providing general goods and services for a surrounding area
-transport functions
-specialized functions not necessarily geared to the local area

Question 8

Residents of larger and more complex cities tend to segregate themselves into groups on the basis of what 3 characteristics

Answer 8

social status, family status, ethnicity

Question 9

Know the information on the slide entitled, “planned cities”

Answer 9

-some capital cities have been relocated outside the core regions of their countries to
1.achieve the presumed advantages of centrality
2. to encourage more-uniform national development

-other cities are developed to draw population away from overgrown metropolises and/or to house industrial or transport centers