Unit 6 Vocab Chapter 15

Question 1

a variety of community types with a range of population densities

Answer 1

Ecumene

Question 2

areas (farms and villages) with low concentrations of people

Answer 2

Rural

Question 3

areas (cities) with high concentrations of people

Answer 3

Urban

Question 4

primarily residential areas near cities

Answer 4

Suburbs

Question 5

a place with a permanent human population

Answer 5

Settlement

Question 6

the process of developing towns and cities

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

Percent Urban

Question 8

the characteristics at the immediate location (physical features, climate, labor force, etc.)

Answer 8

Site

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Situation

Question 10

historically consisted of an urban center and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages

Answer 10

City-state

Question 11

area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys for fertile farmland

Answer 11

Urban Hearth

Question 12

a central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes; includes surrounding suburbs

Answer 12

Urban Area

Question 13

a higher-density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries

Answer 13

City

Question 14

a collection of adjacent cities economically connected; population density is high and continuous.

Answer 14

Metropolitan Area (Metro Area)

Question 15

another way to define a city; a city with more than 50,000 people and the county it is located in

Answer 15

Metropolitan Statistical Area

Question 16

cities with more than 10,000 people but less than 50,000

Answer 16

Micropolitan Statistical Area

Question 17

the focal point in a matrix of connections

Answer 17

Nodal Region

Question 18

high in cities; population compared to other areas contains a wider variety of people. (diversity in cultures, sexual orientation, language, etc.)

Answer 18

Social Heterogeneity

Question 19

the shrinking of relative distance between locations because of improved methods of transportation

Answer 19

Time-Space Compression

Question 20

model to describe urban growth based on transportation technology

Answer 20

Borchert’s Transportation Model

Question 21

shaped by the distances people could walk

Answer 21

Pedestrian Cities

Question 22

communities that grew up along rail lines, creating a pinwheel shaped city

Answer 22

Streetcar Suburbs

Question 23

the process of people moving from cities to the outskirts of cities

Answer 23

Suburbanization

Question 24

the rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city

Answer 24

Sprawl

Question 25

encourages sprawl; developers purchase land and build communities beyond the area of a city

Answer 25

Leap-frog Developmennt

Question 26

rapidly growing communities; have over 100,000 people and are not the largest city

Answer 26

Boomburbs

Question 27

nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities

Answer 27

Edge Cities

Question 28

the flow of urban residents leaving cities

Answer 28

Counter-urbanization (Deurbanization)

Question 29

prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs

Answer 29

Exurbs

Question 30

when those who live in suburbs return to the city

Answer 30

Reurbanization

Question 31

have a population of over 10 million

Answer 31

Megacities

Question 32

continuous urban area with a population of over 20 million OR attributes of a network of urban areas that have grown together to form a larger interconnected urban system

Answer 32

Metacities

Question 33

a chain of connected cities

Answer 33

Megalopolis

Question 34

an uninterrupted urban area made up of towns, suburbs, and cities

Answer 34

Conurbation

Question 35

cities that exert influence far beyond their national boundaries

Answer 35

World Cities (Global Cities)

Question 36

ranking based on influence or population size

Answer 36

Urban Hierarchy

Question 37

command centers on a regional and occasionally national level

Answer 37

Nodal Cities

Question 38

interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional, national, and global scale.

Answer 38

Urban System

Question 39

describes one way in which the sizes of cities within a region may develop; the rank of a city will predict the size of the city

Answer 39

Rank-size Rule

Question 40

expensive, needs a large number of people, only occasionally utilized

Answer 40

Higher-order Services

Question 41

less expensive, requires only a small population, used often

Answer 41

Lower-order Services

Question 42

when the largest city is more than twice as large as the next largest; more developed and disproportionately powerful

Answer 42

Primate Cities

Question 43

states that larger and closer places will have more interactions with each other

Answer 43

Gravity Model

Question 44

explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region

Answer 44

Central Place Theory

Question 45

a place where people go to receive goods and services

Answer 45

Central Place

Question 46

the zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services

Answer 46

Market Area

Question 47

depiction of the shape of market areas; compromise between a square and a circle

Answer 47

Hexagonal Hinterlands

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Threshold

Question 49

the distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services

Answer 49

Range