Human geo Unit 6 part 1

Question 1

Basic sector

Answer 1

those products or services of an urban economy that are exported outside the city itself, earning income for the community.

Question 2

Central city

Answer 2

the urban area that is not suburban; generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbs

Question 3

Central Place Theory

Answer 3

a theory that seeks to explain the relative size and spacing of towns and cities as a function of people’s shopping behavior.

Question 4

City

Answer 4

a multifunctional nucleated settlement with a central business district and both residential and nonresidential land uses.

Question 5

Economic base

Answer 5

A community’s collection of basic industries.

Question 6

Emerging City

Answer 6

cities experiencing population growth as well as increasing economic and political clout throughout their region.

Question 7

Gateway city

Answer 7

a city that serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical characteristics.

Question 8

Hamlet

Answer 8

may only include a few dozen people and offer few basic services, such as a gas station, a general store, or a coffee shop.

Question 9

Hinterland (market area)

Answer 9

the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services.

Question 10

Informal sector

Answer 10

economic activities that take place beyond official record, not subject to formalized systems of regulation or remuneration.

Question 11

Megacities

Answer 11

a city with a population of over ten million people.

Question 12

Megalopolis (conurbation)

Answer 12

where several metropolitan areas are linked together to form one huge urban area. One example is BosWash, which includes the land between the cities of Boston, MA and Washington D.C.

Question 13

Metropolitan area (Metropolis)

Answer 13

in the U.S., a large functionally integrated settlement area comprising one or more whole country units and usually containing several urbanized areas: discontinuously built up, it operates as a coherent economic whole.

Question 14

Nonbasic sector (service sector)

Answer 14

those economic activities of an urban unit that supply the resident population with goods and services and that have no “export” implication.

Question 15

Primate city

Answer 15

a city of large size (over twice the size of the next largest city within that country) and dominant power within a country; a country’s largest city, ranking atop the urban hierarchy, most expressive of the national culture and usually (but not always) the capital city as well.

Question 16

Range

Answer 16

in central-place theory, the average maximum distance people will travel to purchase a good or service.

Question 17

Rank-size rule

Answer 17

in a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.

Question 18

Tertiary Sector

Answer 18

the portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.

Question 19

Threshold

Answer 19

in central-place theory, the size of the population required to make provision of services economically feasible.

Question 20

Towns

Answer 20

may consist of 50 to a few thousand people. Towns are considered an urban area with a defined boundary but are smaller than a city in terms of population and area.

Question 21

Urban area

Answer 21

the central city and the surrounding suburbs.

Question 22

Urban hearth area

Answer 22

a region in which the world’s first cities evolved.

Question 23

Urban hierarchy

Answer 23

a ranking of settlements according to their size and economic function, e.g., hamlet – village – town – city – metropolis - megalopolis.

Question 24

Urbanization

Answer 24

the proportion of a country’s population living in an urban area; the movement of people to, and clustering of people in, towns and cities.

Question 25

Village

Answer 25

larger than hamlets and will likely offer several dozen services that are more specialized than those of a hamlet.

Question 26

World city (Global City)

Answer 26

a city that plays an especially important role in global business services.