Unit 6 - Additional Vocab.

Question 1

Annexation

Answer 1

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States

Question 2

Counterurbanization

Answer 2

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

Question 3

Ecumene

Answer 3

The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement

Question 4

Exurbanization

Answer 4

The movement of households from urban areas to locations outside the urban area but within the commuting field

Question 5

Incorporation

Answer 5

Incorporated communities are officially labeled and demarcated via

Question 6

Leap Frog Development

Answer 6

Developments that jump over established developments, leaving undeveloped or underdeveloped land between developments

Question 7

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

Answer 7

In the United States, an urbanized area of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city

Question 8

Reurbanization

Answer 8

Involves the growth of population in metropolitan central cores following a period of absolute or relative decline in population

Question 9

Satellite city

Answer 9

An established town near a very large city that has grown into a city, independent of the larger one

Question 10

Scattered site housing

Answer 10

A form of housing in which publicly funded, affordable, low-density units are scattered throughout diverse, middle-class neighborhoods

Question 11

Unincorporated

Answer 11

Are not officially considered to be municipal areas of their own accord. They often act as a part of a larger municipality, such as a county or city