UNIT 6 VOCAB

Question 1

a suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100000 residents

Answer 1

Boomburg

Question 2

a theory used to describe the spatial relationship between cities and their surrounding communities

Answer 2

central place theory

Question 3

a type of community located on the outskirts of a large city with commercial centers with office space, retail, complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center

Answer 3

Edge city

Question 4

a topically fast growing community of or an on the edge of a metropolitan area where the resident and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

Answer 4

Exurb

Question 5

a model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s low of universal gravitation

Answer 5

gravity model

Question 6

redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas

Answer 6

Infill

Question 7

a city with a population of more than 10 million

Answer 7

Megacity

Question 8

a city with a population of more than 290 million

Answer 8

meta city