Unit 6 Vocabulary (Terms 1-20)

Question 1

Basic Industries

Answer 1

Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.

Question 2

Nonbasic Industries

Answer 2

Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.

Question 3

Bid Rent Theory

Answer 3

The price and demand for real estate changes as the distance from the central business district (CBD) increases.

Question 4

Brownfields

Answer 4

Abandoned and polluted industrial site in a central city or suburb.

Question 5

Business Services

Answer 5

Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses.

Question 6

Central Business District (CBD)

Answer 6

The downtown of a central city, the CBD is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce.

Question 7

Central Place Theory

Answer 7

Theory that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another, proposed by Walter Christaller.

Question 8

City

Answer 8

Conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics.

Question 9

Commercialization

Answer 9

Transformation of the central city to attract residents and tourists to the newly commercialized downtowns.

Question 10

Commuter Zone

Answer 10

Area in which people choose to live in residential suburbia and take a daily commute into the CBD to work.

Question 11

Complementary Goods

Answer 11

A good whose use is related to the use of an associated or paired good. Two goods (A and B) complementary if using more of good A requires the use of more of good B. Ex: Peant Butter and Jelly.

Question 12

Complementary Regions

Answer 12

A region formed by the combination of two areas with different activities or strengths, each of which benefits from the other; could be like a city and a suburb or two different countries that produce items the other needs.

Question 13

Consumer Services

Answer 13

Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services.

Question 14

De facto Segregation

Answer 14

Segregation that results from natural residential settlement patterns rather than from prejudicial laws (De jure segregation is done by law).

Question 15

Disamenity Sector

Answer 15

The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not connected to regular city services and sometimes controlled by gangs and drug lords.

Question 16

Economic Base

Answer 16

A community’s collection of basic industries.

Question 17

Edge City

Answer 17

Shifting focus of economic activity to a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.

Question 18

Feminization of Poverty

Answer 18

The trend of women making up an increasing proportion of the poor often due to gender inequality related issues and single females as head of household.

Question 19

Filtering

Answer 19

In urban areas, the process of housing going from large single-family homes to subdivided apartments and eventual abandonment. Property owners stop maintaining or abandoning the properties since tenants often cannot afford rent.

Question 20

Functional Specialization

Answer 20

Production of particular goods or services as a dominant activity in a particular location.