Chapter 5

Question 1

Metropolis

Answer 1

a vast settlement of people and various organizations that can consist of countless cities and towns

Question 2

Center of the City

Answer 2

where land is most valuable, where businesses want to be, economic activity

Question 3

Zone of Transition

Answer 3

the social area of the city where residential settlements began to appear among commercial ones

Question 4

Zone of Commuters

Answer 4

buildings were close to factories and retail shops where residents could commute to work, mostly immigrants; working class

Question 5

Assessing the Concentric Zone Theory

Answer 5

interpreted to mean that all cities consisted of a series of social and economic zones that were concentric circles organized around the center of the city; key economic and political activities were at the center while residential was at the fringes; Ernest Burgess

Question 6

Natural Areas of the Metroplis

Answer 6

those specific spaces in the metropolis where distinctive groups of people and/or organizations congregate

Question 7

Multiple Nuclei

Answer 7

the claim that metropolitan areas consist of different centers that can compete with one another in development

Question 8

Natural Increase

Answer 8

the crude birth rate minus the death rate of a population, usually positive, but may be negative

Question 9

Metropolitan Expansion (or Contraction)

Answer 9

the growth (or decline) of a city region, which depends on births versus deaths and the rate of immigration/emigration