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Unit 6 AP Human Geographyurbanization - answer the movement of people from rural areas to cities
city - answer A relatively large, densely populated settlement with a much larger
population than rural towns and villages; cities serve as important commercial,
governmental, and cultural hubs for their surrounding regions
urban - answer Relating to a city
agriculture surplus - answer Crop yields that are sufficient to feed more people that the
farmer and his or her family
socioeconomic stratification - answer the structuring of society into distinct
socioeconomic classes, including leadership (for instance, a government or ruling class)
that exercise control over goods and people
first urban revolution - answer The agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led
to the rise of the earliest cities
urban hearth areas - answer Regions in which the world's first cities evolved
site - answerAn absolute location of a place on Earth
situation - answerThe relative location of a place in reference to its surrounding
features, or its regional position with reference to other places
capitalism - answerAn economic and political system in which a country's trade and
industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than owned and run by the
state
communism - answerAn economic and political system in which all property is publicly
owned and managed
streetcar suburb - answerA settlement outside a city with streetcar lines; the streetcars
take residents into and out of the city easily
second urban revolution - answerThe industrial innovations in mining and manufacturing
that led to increased urban growth
redevelopment - answerA set of activities intended to revitalize an area that has fallen
on hard times
, metropolis - answerA very large and densely populated city, particularly the capital or
major city of a country or region
urban area - answerAny self-governing places in the United States that contains at least
2500 people
urbanized area - answerIn the United States, an urban area with 50,000 people or more
urban cluster - answerIn the United States, an urban area with fewer than 50,000
inhabitants
metropolitan statistical areas - answerIn the United States, a region with at least one
urbanized area as its core
micropolitan statistical area - answerIn the United States, a region with one or more
urban clusters of at least 10,000 people as its cores
suburb - answerA populated area on the outskirts of a city
urbanization rate - answerThe percentage of a nation's population living in towns and
cities
suburbanization - answerThe movement of people from urban core areas to the
surrounding outskirts of a city
sprawl - answerThe tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner
automobile cities - answercities whose size and shape are dictated by and almost
require individual automobile ownership
decentralize - answerIn an urban context, to move business operations from core city
areas into outlying areas such as suburbs
edge city - answerconcentration of business, shopping, and entertainment that
developed in the suburbs, outside of a city's traditional downtown or central business
district
boomburb (also called boomburg) - answerA place with more than 100,000 residents
that is not a core city in a metropolitan area; a large suburb withs its own government
infill development - answerThe building of new retail, business, or residential spaces on
vacant or underused parcels in already-developed areas
exurb - answerA semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by
well-to-do families
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