Unit 5: Urban Geography Flashcards

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What’s rural ?

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Outside towns & cities ( more farmland)

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What are the 6 urban land uses?

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

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What’s the CBD ?

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

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What does a CBD include ?

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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

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Urban V.S Rural

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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

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What’s urban ?

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Towns or cites of 1000 or more people

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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