6.2

Question 1

People moving from cities to residential areas

Answer 1

Suburbanization

Question 2

Rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city

Answer 2

Sprawl

Question 3

Developers purchase land and build communities beyond the periphery of a city’s built area

Answer 3

Leap-Frog development

Question 4

Rapidly growing communities (Over 10% population growth over 10 years), total population above 100,000

Answer 4

Boomburbs

Question 5

Nodes of economic activity developed in the periphery of large cities

Answer 5

Edge Cities

Question 6

Counter-Flow of urban residents leaving cities

Answer 6

Counter-Urbanization (Deurbanization)

Question 7

Prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs

Answer 7

Exurbs

Question 8

Suburbanites return to live in the city

Answer 8

Reurbanization

Question 9

Population of more than 10 million people

Answer 9

Megacities

Question 10

-Continuous urban Area, population greater than 20 million
-Network of urban areas grow to a large interconnected system

Answer 10

Metacities

Question 11

Chain of connected cities

Answer 11

Megalopolis

Question 12

Uninterrupted urban Area made of towns, suburbs and cities

Answer 12

Conurbation