chapter 12/13 ap vocab

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Central Place

Question 2

A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

Answer 2

Gravity Model

Question 3

A major center for the provision of services in the global economy.

Answer 3

Global city

Question 4

The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services.

Answer 4

Market Area

Question 5

An urban settlement with a total population in excess of 10 million people.

Answer 5

Megacity

Question 6

An urban settlement with a total population in excess of 20 million people

Answer 6

.Metacity

Question 7

the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

Answer 7

Primate City

Question 8

A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

Answer 8

Primate City Rule

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Range

Question 10

A pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

Answer 10

Rank size rule

Question 11

Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it.

Answer 11

Service

Question 12

The minimum number of people needed to support a service.

Answer 12

Threshold

Question 13

An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements.

Answer 13

Urbanization

Question 14

The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.

Answer 14

Central Business District

Question 15

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.

Answer 15

\Concentric Zone Model

Question 16

A node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.

Answer 16

Edge City

Question 17

A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.

Answer 17

Galatic Model

Question 18

A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area.

Answer 18

Gentrification

Question 19

A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States.

Answer 19

Meglopolis

Question 20

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.

Answer 20

Multiple Nuciel Model

Question 21

Government-owned housing rented to low-income people.

Answer 21

Public Housing

Question 22

model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district.

Answer 22

sector model

Question 23

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.

Answer 23

Smart Growth

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Sprawl

Question 25

A residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city.

Answer 25

Suburb