Geography-Unit 5

Question 0

Define range

Answer 0

Average maximum distance people will travel for a particular service.

Question 1

Define central place

Answer 1

A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people living in the surrounding area (hinterland)

Question 2

Define threshold

Answer 2

The minimum number of customers needed to generate enough sales to make a profit.

Question 3

Central place theory

Answer 3

Walter christaller. Because the range and thresholds of different services may vary, market centers are arranged in an orderly hierarchy.

Question 4

4 levels of market areas

Answer 4

Hamlets, villages, town, city

Question 5

Define hamlet

Answer 5

Very small hinterland, maybe offer a tavern, service station and cafe.

Question 6

Villages

Answer 6

Small hinterland offers everything hamlet offers and a few more like convo wince stores churches post office.

Question 7

Town

Answer 7

Large hinterland offers everything a village offers and few more like a grocery store and school.

Question 8

City

Answer 8

Very large hinterland offers what a town offers and things like hospital and car dealership.

Question 9

Rank size rule

Answer 9

Settlers in developed countries can be ranked from largest to smallest in a regular pattern.

Question 10

Primate city rule

Answer 10

The largest city is more than twice as large as the next city.

Question 11

Global/world city

Answer 11

A city integrated into the global economic system and is a center for the flow of money and information

Question 12

3 levels of global cities

Answer 12

Alpha, beta and gamma

Question 13

What is in the CBD

Answer 13

Professional businesses.

Question 14

What was once in the CBD

Answer 14

Department stores and jewelers.

Question 15

Why is land expensive

Answer 15

Competition for land because CBD is very accessible.

Question 16

Define vertical geography

Answer 16

Build up. Higher rent is street level and
Occupied by retailers, middle rent is mid level and occupied by business services that do not depend on foot traffic and high level are apartments with less noise and great views.

Question 17

Where are factories and wear houses?

Answer 17

Suburbs

Question 18

Why do YUPpies move to the CBD

Answer 18

Nightlife, entertainment, restaurants, theaters, museums

Question 19

Define city

Answer 19

An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self governing unit.

Question 20

Central city

Answer 20

A city surrounded by suburbs

Question 21

Urban area

Answer 21

A central city surrounded by suburbs

Question 22

Metropolitan area

Answer 22

A functional region or all of the area that a central city influences.

Question 23

Megalopolis

Answer 23

Overlapping metropolitan areas that cause one contiguous urban complex to be formed.

Question 24

Examples of megalopolis

Answer 24

Boston to Washington | Chicago to Milwaukee

Question 25

Annexation

Answer 25

Process of legally adding land to a city

Question 26

Peripheral model

Answer 26

Chauncey Harris. An urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by a large suburban residential and business area tied together by a beltway ( circle of roads )

Question 27

Density gradient

Answer 27

The number of housing units per acre of land diminishes as distance from the city center increases

Question 28

Urban sprawl

Answer 28

The progressive spread of development over the landscape

Question 29

Council of government

Answer 29

A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of various local governments in a metropolitan area

Question 30

Concentric zone model

Answer 30

E.W. Burgess. City grow out from a center in a series of concentric rings. CBD, transition zone (industry mixed with poor housing), working class (modest older homes), better residents (middle class), commuter ( bedroom communities)

Question 31

Sector model

Answer 31

Homer Hoyt. Aa the city grows the area of the activity expands outward with it in a wedge shape

Question 32

Multiple nuclei model

Answer 32

Harris and Ullman. City develops around more than one center (node)

Question 33

Urban realms model

Answer 33

Blending of many cities to make a metropolitan

Question 34

3 stages in developing countries

Answer 34

Pre colonial, colonial and independence

Question 35

Pre colonial

Answer 35

Cities focused in a religious center

Question 36

Colonial

Answer 36

Colonist often destroyed native city or built a colonial city next to the native city

Question 37

Independence

Answer 37

Millions of people have migrated from rural areas to cities

Question 38

Who is urbanizing at a faster rate

Answer 38

Less developed countries

Question 39

Mega city

Answer 39

City with more than 10 | Million people

Question 40

Name 8 world mega cities

Answer 40

New York, Tokyo, Sao Paul, Mexico City, Mumbai, Delhi, Jakarta and Lagos

Question 41

By 2030 how many of the the worlds population will live in slums

Answer 41

2/7