Unit 5: Urban Geography

Question 1

What’s rural ?

Answer 1

Outside towns & cities ( more farmland)

Question 2

What are the 6 urban land uses?

Answer 2

1) residential land use 2) transportation. 3) commercial land use. 4) institution & public buildings. 5) open space and recreational. 6) industrial land use

Question 3

What’s the CBD ?

Answer 3

Stands for central business district. This is what’s called “down town”.

Question 4

What does a CBD include ?

Answer 4

It has a high demand for office space which elevates the land value in CBD. In Canada The CBDs have financial, retail,entertainment & hotel land uses

Question 5

Urban V.S Rural

Answer 5

Urban ~ higher population, more Buildings, tithes packed communities. Example Mississauga or Toronto.
Rural ~ lower population density, large amount of open space land, more agriculture. Example parts of Milton or Niagara falls on the lake

Question 6

What’s urban ?

Answer 6

Towns or cites of 1000 or more people

Question 7

What’s a primary industry ? List the types of industries.

Answer 7

Taking natural resources from the environment to make semi-finished products.
Types of industries: agriculture, mining, forget and fishing

Question 8

What’s a secondary industry ? List the types of industries.

Answer 8

Industry dealing with the manufacturing of the semi-finished products to finished products.
Types of industries: manufacturing & construction

Question 9

What’s a tertiary industry ? List the types of industries.

Answer 9

Provides services to businesses & costumes by the products
Types of industry: transportation, communication, finance insurance & personal services

Question 10

What’s a quantenary industry ? List the types of industries.

Answer 10

Highly specialized & usually expensive knowledge based technological service
Types of industry: doctors, lawyers, politicians,engineered & teachers