Unit 7 APHG test study guide

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agriculture
Where residents of rural settlements are more likely to work.
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Primate City
A city with more than twice the population of the second-ranking settlement.
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Central Place Theory
Explains why consumer services follow a regular pattern based on the size of settlements.
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Parthenon
The most prominent structure in the ancient city of Athens.
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Central Business District (CBD)
A zone where retail and office activities are clustered, taking up less than 1% of urban land area.
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Concentric Zone Model
A model explaining social groups within urban areas, suggesting growth in concentric rings.
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Interstate Highways
Built by the U.S. government to encourage the use of cars.
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Detroit
The city that declined from 1.8 million inhabitants in 1950 to 700,000 in 2010.
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Gentrification
The process by which middle-class people move into and renovate deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods.
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50%
The percentage of jobs in the U.S. that are in consumer services.
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Urban Settlement
The type of settlement where most people in the world live.
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Hinterland
The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted.
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Range
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service.
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Rank-Size Rule
The hierarchical listing of settlements by size.
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State Capital
An example of a settlement that specializes in public services.
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Basic Industry
A service that sells to people outside its settlement.
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Social Area Analysis
Attempts to explain the distribution of different types of people in an urban area.
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Urbanized Area
The city plus its surrounding built-up suburbs.
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Squatter Settlements
Areas where many poor people live on the periphery of cities in less developed countries.
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Sprawl
The development of new housing sites not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
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Zoning
A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities.
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Filtering
The process of subdividing a house from single-family to multiple occupancy.
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Redlining
A process by which banks refuse to lend money for improvements in designated areas.
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Megalopolis
Adjacent, overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas.