Mexico Geoterms

What is rural decline?

• People moving to the countryside to retire

• Worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty

• A new farming method used in the countryside.

• People moving into more urban areas.

What is spatial inequality?

• Wealthy people

• Poor people

• When people move from different places because of poverty.

• The unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area, so that some places are richer than others

What is standard of living?

• The quality of life based on the possession of necessities and luxuries that make life easier

• Ability to pay bills

• A type of employment

• Purchasing groceries

What is urbanization?

• Movement of people from cities to rural areas

• Construction of new buildings in cities

• The ability to move out of poverty

• Movement of people from rural areas to cities

What is this an example of?

• rural farm

• Shopping center

• Slums

• Hospital

What is a slum?

• Wealthy neighborhoods

• Poor, run-down urban neighborhoods

What is this a picture of?

• tenements

• country club

• hospital

• school

What is a tenement?

• Apartment buildings for the wealthy.

• Schools

• Apartment buildings for the poor; often very crowded and very dirty

• Brand new housing for poor people

What is an outlying areas of a city or town?

• Outskirts

• Heart of the city

• Slums

• Spatial inequality

What is center of the city, often the commercial or historical area?

• Slums

• Outskirts

• Heart of the city

• Rural decline