Modules 44-45

Question 1

Urbanization

Answer 1

The movement of people from rural areas to cities.

Question 2

City

Answer 2

A relatively large, density populated settlement with a much larger population than rural towns and villages; cities serve as important commercial, governmental, and central hubs for their surrounding regions.

Question 3

Urban

Answer 3

Relating to a city

Question 4

Agricultural Surplus

Answer 4

crop yeilds that are sufficient to feed more people than the farmers and his/her family.

Question 5

Socioeconomic Stratification

Answer 5

The structuring of society into distinct socioeconomic classes, including leadership (government or ruling class) that exercise control over goods and people.

Question 6

First Urban Revolution

Answer 6

The agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led to the rise of the earliest cities.

Question 7

Urban hearth areas

Answer 7

Regions in which the worlds first cities evolved.

Question 8

Site

Answer 8

An absolute location of a place on Earth.

Question 9

Situation

Answer 9

The relative location of a place in reference to its surrounding features, or its regional position with reference to other places.

Question 10

Capitalism

Answer 10

An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than owned and run by the state.

Question 11

Communism

Answer 11

An economic and political system in which all property is publicly owned and managed.

Question 12

Streetcar Suburbs

Answer 12

A settlement outside of a city with street car lines; the streetcars take residents into and out of the city easily.

Question 13

Second Urban Revolution

Answer 13

The industrial innovations in mining and manufacturing that led to increased urban growth.

Question 14

Redevelopment

Answer 14

A set of activities intended to revitalize an area that has fallen on hard times.

Question 15

Metropolis

Answer 15

A very large and densely populated city particularly the capital or major city of a country or region.

Question 16

Urban Area

Answer 16

Any self-governing place in the U.S. that contains at least a,500 people/

Question 17

Urbanized areas

Answer 17

In the U.S. a urban area with 50,000 people or more.

Question 18

Urban Clusters

Answer 18

In the U.S. an urban area with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.

Question 19

Metropolitan Areas

Answer 19

In the U.S. an region with at least one urbanized area at its core.

Question 20

Micropolitan areas

Answer 20

In the U.S. a region with one or more urban clusters of at least 10,000 people at its cores.

Question 21

Suburbs

Answer 21

Populated areas on the outskirts of a city.

Question 22

Urbanization rate

Answer 22

The percentage of a nation’s population living in towns and cities.

Question 23

Suburbanization

Answer 23

The movement of people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts of a city.

Question 24

Sprawl

Answer 24

The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner.

Question 25

Automobile Cities

Answer 25

Cities who's size and shape are dictated by and almost require individual automobile ownership.

Question 26

Decerteralize

Answer 26

in an urban context, to move businesses operations from core city areas into outlying areas such as suburbs.

Question 27

Edge cities

Answer 27

A concentration of businesses, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city's traditional downtown or central business district.

Question 28

Boomburbs

Answer 28

A place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metropolitan area; a large suburb with its own government.

Question 29

Infill development

Answer 29

The building of new retail, businesses, or residential spaces on a vacant or underused parcels in already developed areas.

Question 30

Exurbs

Answer 30

A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well-to-do families.