Urbanization Vocabulary Quiz

The number of people per square mile

• Agrarian population density

• Population

• Physiologic population density

• Population density

An overcrowded, dirty area of the city where the housing is usually in very poor condition

• Slums

• Rural

• Suburbs

• Urban

A city with a population of over 10 million

• Metropolitan area

• Megacity

• Suburb

• Urban sprawl

The rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural areas

• Suburb

• Urban core

• Urban sprawl

• Urban fringe

Older part of a big city; downtown or business district

• Slum

• Suburb

• Urban core

• Urban fringe

A major city and its surrounding suburbs

• Metropolitan area

• Rural

• Urban

• Suburb

An area of low population density and small settlements

• Suburbs

• Urban

• Slums

• Rural

A large city or town

• Rural

• Urban

• Slums

• Metropolitan area

An area outside of the city

• Slums

• Rural

• Suburb

• Urban

Ring of small towns and suburbs that surround a big city

• Urban fringe

• Slums

• Rural

• Urban core