Human Geography vocab quizz 31.3

Site factor

Factors that relate to the unique characteristics of a location (labour, land and capital).

Situation factor

Factors that relate to how the location of the place relates to other things.

Megacity

Cities that have 10 million to 19,999,999 population.

Metacity

Cities that have over 20 million population.

Core country

Very important countries that can impact global economics (socially developed, capitalist).

Semi-periphery country

Countries with the economics are growing; sometimes the economy is huge but the country is maybe communist or socially not that developed.

Periphery country

Countries do not have a big impact on global economics; poor countries and developing socially.

Rank-size rule

When a country’s second largest settlement (city) is a half the population of the largest settlement.

Primate city

When the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.

Gravity model

About how cities pull people into them.