theme 5

Question 1

Distrabution of people living in rural vs. urban areas.

Answer 1

3 fourths of people today live in urban areas.
ub=rbanization accelerated in the 1800s,
the percentage of poor people taht live in cities has grown from 25-50% over the years

Question 2

world cities

Answer 2

london NY tokyo
house inportant stock exchange
the tiers of world cities is characterized by the services they offer
rd.

Question 3

buissness services

Answer 3

a city that is home to many corporate businesses and the center of stock exchanges
airports and busy harbors

Question 4

consumer services

Answer 4

the retail businesses that cater to the wealthy population brought by the large number of corporate businesses

Question 5

public services

Answer 5

world cities are often home of great political power
ambassadors and other political figures work there

Question 6

mega cities

Answer 6

populations of over 10 million
many in LDCs house overpopulated apartment buildings and slums
richest people in world live next to poorest

Question 7

transportation centers

Answer 7

roads railroads sea traffic and air transportation

Question 8

special function cities

Answer 8

miniing manufacturing and recreation
large cities are multi functional

Question 9

central places \

Answer 9

provide good services for surrounding areas

Question 10

export activities

Answer 10

services based in one cities that go to another outside area
money flows into city

Question 11

basic sector

Answer 11

the name for the combination of money being brought into the city’s economy

Question 12

non basic service sector

Answer 12

the work for the residents of the city that is not exported out
professional offices, government, schools, trasit

Question 13

base ratio

Answer 13

how geographers compare city’s functions
ratio between workers employed in basic sector and those employed in nonbasic sector.

Question 14

multiplier effect

Answer 14

when new basic sector employment is comes with a large share of non basic workers
decreases ratio between sectors
total number of jobs being creared i=are in non basic sector

Question 15

urban influence zones

Answer 15

as the distance away from the city increases, the influence on the countryside decreases
large city+ larger sphere of incluence outisde
larger city encompasses larger cities

Question 16

settlement geography

Answer 16

patterns of settlement on earths surface

Question 17

rank size rule

Answer 17

urban hierarchy summarized by rule
nth largest city with be the 1/n of the largest city
Example: second largest city will be the 1/2 the size of the first ranked city
describes pattern of urban area sizes
does not describe recent urbanization( LDCs)

Question 18

primate city

Answer 18

rank size rule does not fit because the one city is so dominant no other city in area can compare

Question 19

central place theory

Answer 19

rings
urban settlement as center of distribution of goods

Question 20

complementary regions

Answer 20

non competeing market areas
monopolies
within central place theory

Question 21

hierarchy of central place

Answer 21

hexagons
within each hexagon or around the edges, is a smaller hexagon that serves a smaller area
when one hexagon is inside another
smallcenters providing low order services than large centers
provides goods with low threshholds( milk brea) and large centers provide things like cars

Question 22

Accessibility

Answer 22

functions to be fulfilled in places that are easily accessible to its inhabitants

Question 23

high cost of accessible space

Answer 23

because if the requirement of accessibility within cities needs to be met, then the cost of accesible land goes up.

Question 24

transportation

Answer 24

due to the requirement of accessibility, city development depends on the transportation lines

Question 25

Central Buissness district

Answer 25

center of buissness in city

Question 26

centric zone model

Answer 26

shows cities growing outward from a central areas through a series of rings

Question 27

Centric zone model -zones

Answer 27

zone 1- the innermost zone is central buissness ditrict
zone 2- transition- light industry and housing for poor
zone 3- the zone contains working class homes older houses and small lots
zone four- larger more expensive homes inhabited by wealthier people who can afford to pay the transportation of the
zone 5- commuters zone smaller villages

Question 28

sector model

Answer 28

the model resembles the concentric zone model
allies of sectors extend from the cbd

Question 29

multi nuclei model

Answer 29

has multiple centers