Unit 6 - 1

Question 1

What the classical Greeks called the permanently inhabited portion of the earth’s surface

Answer 1

Ecumene

Question 2

Farmers and villages with low concentrations of people

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Rural

Question 3

Cities with high concentrations of people

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Urban

Question 4

Primarily residential areas near cities

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Suburbs

Question 5

A place with a permanent human population

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Settlement

Question 6

The process of developing towns and cities

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Urbanization

Question 7

An indicator of the proportion of the population that lives in cities and towns as compared to those that live in rural areas

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Percent Urban

Question 8

Describes the characteristics of the immediate location

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Site

Question 9

Refers to the location of a place relative to its surroundings and connectivity to other places

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Situation

Question 10

Consisted of an urban center and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages

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City-State

Question 11

Tigris-Euphrates Valley in modern Iraq
Nile River Valley and Nile Delta in modern Egypt
Indus River Valley in modern Pakistan
Huang-He floodplain in modern China
Mesoamerica in modern Mexico
Andean region of South America

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Urban Hearth

Question 12

Higher-density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries

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City

Question 13

Collection of adjacent cities economically connected, across which population density is high and continuous.

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Metropolitan Area(metro area)

Question 14

Another way to define a city. City of at least 50,000 people, the county in which it’s located, and adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and econ. integration of connection with the urban core.

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Metropolitan Statistical Area(MSA)

Question 15

Over 10,000 people but less than 50,000, includes the county where it’s located and surrounding counties with high degree of integration.

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Micropolitan Statistical Area

Question 16

Focal point in a matric of connections

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Nodal Region

Question 17

Physical characteristics to describe an urban area.

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Morphology

Question 18

(Past vocab, 1.4) Shrinking of time distance or relative distance based on improvements in transportation and internet.

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Time-space compression

Question 19

Geographer John Borchert

Describes urban growth based on transportation technology.

Urban history split into 4 periods: Epochs→ effects on local scale related to city’s form, size, density and spatial arrangement.

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Borchert’s transportation model

Question 20

Earliest urban centers. Shaped by distances people could walk.

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Pedestrian Cities

Question 21

Communities that grew up along rail likes, often = pinwheel shaped.

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Streetcar Suburbs

Question 22

Process of people moving(usually from cities) to residential areas on outskirts of cities. Form communities connected to city or jobs and services.

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Suburbanization

Question 23

Rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city and occurs for many reasons(growth of suburbs, ↓ land costs in suburbs vs. inner cities, ↓ density single family housing, weak planning laws, ↑ growth of car culture). ↑ urban footprint. Most common in fast growing areas in the Southeast and West.

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Sprawl

Question 24

Developers purchase land and build communities beyond the periphery of a city’s built area. Encourages sprawl.

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Leap-frog development

Question 25

Rapidly growing communities w/ total pop. of over 100,000 people but not largest city in metro area. Develops differently than traditional cities— usually no dense urban center.

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Boombergs

Question 26

Nodes of econ. activity that developed in the periphery of large cities. Found near key locations along transport routes that have mini downtowns.

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Edge cities

Question 27

Urban migrants leaving city(counterflow of rural-to-urban), many to exurbs.

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Counterurbanization(deurbanization)

Question 28

Prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs. Growth reasons: work w/ tech = no need to commute(can live farther), relative affordability of land, cultural preferences. Residents want privacy and connections to urban center. Expansive lots and large single family homes.

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Exurbs

Question 29

Migration of suburbs back to city

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Reurbanization

Question 30

Pop. is greater than 10 million people.

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Megacities

Question 31

Because of rapid growth of cities in the 21st century. Also, hypercities. Continuous urban area w/ a pop. > 20 mil. people. Attributes of a network of urban areas that have grown to form a larger interconnected urban system.

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Metacities

Question 32

Chain of connected cities. More commonly used as a term after 1961. Cities grow until merged into conurbation. Crossed state boundaries and exceeded definition of metropolitian area while focused on one urban center.

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Megalopolis

Question 33

Uninterrupted area of towns, suburbs, and cities.

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Conurbation

Question 34

Central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes, and includes the surrounding suburbs.

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Urban area

Question 35

Cities that exert influence far beyond their national boundaries

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World cities

Question 36

Ranking based on influence or population size

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Urban hierarchy

Question 37

London, New York city, Tokyo, Japan, Paris, France, Singapore, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Berlin, Germany, Seol, South Korea, Shanghai, China

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Top 10 cities, 2020

Question 38

Command centers on a regional, and occasionally national level

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Nodal cities

Question 39

And interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional national in global scale

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Urban system

Question 40

Describes one way in which the size of cities within a region may develop

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Rank size rule

Question 41

Services are usually expensive. Need a large number of people to support and are only occasionally utilized.

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High order services

Question 42

Services are usually less expensive require a small population to support and are used on a daily or weekly basis

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Low order services

Question 43

The large city in an urban system is more than twice as large as the next largest city, the largest city is said to have primacy

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Primate city

Question 44

States that larger and closer places will have more interactions, then places that are smaller and farther from

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Gravity model

Question 45

Explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across the region

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Central place theory

Question 46

A location where people go to receive goods and services

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Central place

Question 47

Zone that contains people who will purchase goods, services surrounds each central place

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Market area

Question 48

The outlying towns and small communities that rely on the central city for goods and services

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Hinterlands

Question 49

The size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable

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Threshold

Question 50

The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services

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Range