6.1-6.4

Question 1

The permanently inhabited portion of earths surface

Answer 1

Ecumene

Question 2

Areas with low concentration of people
ex. farms+villages

Answer 2

Rural

Question 2

Areas with high concentrations of people
ex.cities

Answer 2

Urban

Question 3

Primarily residential areas near cities

Answer 3

Suburbs

Question 4

A place with permanent human population

Answer 4

Settlements

Question 5

An ongoing process that does not end once a city is formed

Answer 5

Urbanization

Question 6

An indicator of the proportion of the population that lives in cities and towns as compared to those that live in rural areas

Answer 6

Percent urban

Question 7

The characteristics at the immediate location
ex. physical features, climate, labor force, human structures

Answer 7

Site

Question 8

The location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places
ex.near a gold mine, on the coast, by a railroad

Answer 8

Situation

Question 9

An area that consists of an urban center(city) and its surroundings territory and agricultural villages

Answer 9

City-state

Question 10

An area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys in which seasonal flooding and fertile soil allows for agricultural surplus

Answer 10

Urban hearth

Question 11

A central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes, and includes the surrounding suburbs

Answer 11

Urban area

Question 12

A higher density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries

Answer 12

City

Question 13

A collection of adjacent cities economically connected, across where population density is high

Answer 13

Metropolitan area(metro area)

Question 14

An area that consists of at least 50,000 people and has a high degree of social and economic integration or connection with the urban core

Answer 14

Metropolitan stastical area(MSA)

Question 15

An area that consists of at least 10000 people and has a high degree of social and economic integration or connection with the urban core

Answer 15

Micropolitan stastical area

Question 16

A focal point in a matrix of connections

Answer 16

Nodal region

Question 17

When a population of people has a greater variety of people

Answer 17

Social heterogeneity

Question 18

Idea that technological advancements, particularly in transportation and communication, have reduced the relative distance between places

Answer 18

Time-space compression

Question 19

A model that describes urban growth based on transportation technology. Each new form of technology produced a new system that changed how people moved themselves and goods in between urban areas

Answer 19

Borchert’s transportation model

Question 20

Cities shaped by the distances people can walk

Answer 20

Pedestrian cities

Question 21

Communities that grew up along rail lines, emerged often creating pinwheel shaped cities

Answer 21

Streetcar suburbs

Question 22

The process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirt of cities

Answer 22

Suburbanization

Question 23

The rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city that occurs because of suburbanization growth, the result is lower costs, less population density,weak laws, and car growth

Answer 23

Sprawl

Question 24

When developers purchase land and build communities beyond the periphery of the cities built area

Answer 24

Leap-frog development

Question 25

Rapidly growing communities that have a total population of over 100,000 people, and arent the largest city in the metro area

Answer 25

Boom burbs(boomburgs)

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Edge cities

Question 27

The counter flow of urban residents leaving cities

Answer 27

Counter-urbanization(Deurbanization)

Question 28

The prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs

Answer 28

Exurbs

Question 29

When some suburbanites return to live in the city

Answer 29

Reurbanization

Question 30

A continuous urban area with a population greater than 20 million people.Attributes of a network of urban areas that have grown together to form a larger interconnected urban system

Answer 30

Metacities(hyper cities)

Question 30

Areas that have a large population of more than 10 million people

Answer 30

Megacities

Question 31

An uninterrupted urban area made of towns, suburbs, and cities

Answer 31

Conurbation

Question 32

A chain of connected cities

Answer 32

Megalopolis

Question 33

Areas that exert influence far beyond their national boundary ex. NY, London, Paris, Tokyo

Answer 33

World cities(global cities)

Question 34

Ranking based on influence or population size

Answer 34

Urban hierarchy

Question 35

Command centers on a regional and occasionally national level

Answer 35

Nodal cities

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Urban system

Question 37

A rule that describes one way in which the sizes of cities within a region may develop; states that nth largest city of any region will be 1/n the size of the largest city

Answer 37

Rank-size rule

Question 38

Expensive services that need a large number of people to support, and are occasionally utilized

Answer 38

Higher-order services

Question 39

Less expensive services that require a small population to support, and are used on a daily or weekly basis

Answer 39

Lower-order services

Question 40

A city that is more than twice as large as the next largest city, and is more developed that other cities

Answer 40

Primate city

Question 41

A model that states that larger and closer places will have more interactions that places that are smaller and farther from each other; the larger one has primacy or priority

Answer 41

Gravity model

Question 42

A theory that explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region

Answer 42

Central place theory

Question 43

A location where people go to receive good sand services

Answer 43

Central place

Question 44

A zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services, surrounds each central place bigger than lower order services

Answer 44

Market area

Question 45

Something that describes market areas by the shape being square-for people at the corners- and a circle- overlapping areas of service

Answer 45

Hexagon hinterlands

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Threshold

Question 47

The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods and services

Answer 47

Range