Vocabulary 4.4-4.5

What is Urban Geography?

• The study of how people use space in cities.

• Areas with a large population

• Rural areas

• The study of geography in urban areas

What is a Suburb?

• political units touching the borders of the central city.

• centers of business and culture.

  
  

• the birthplace of innovation and change in a society.

• a rural area outside of a city

What is a Metropolitan Area?

• When a city, its suburbs, and exurbs link together to form a functional area 

• Where people produce and exchange goods and services

• The total value of all goods and services produced by a country

• The exchange of goods among nations without trade barriers

What is Urbanization?

• The dramatic rise in the number of cities and the changes in lifestyle that result

• Basic support systems needed to keep an economy going

• The average amount of money earned by each person in a political unit

• The way people produce and exchange goods and services

What is an Economy?

• the production and exchange of goods and services among a group of people

• The built-up area around the central city

• areas with large populations

• a country's currency system

What is an Economic System?

• The way people produce and exchange goods and services

• Production of goods and services is determined by a central government

• Production of goods and services is determined by the demand from consumers

• The basic support systems needed to keep an economy going

What is a Command Economy?

• Production of goods and services is determined by a central government

• Production of goods and services is determined by the demand from consumers.

• The way people produce and exchange goods and services

• The total value of all goods and services produced within a country

What is a Market Economy?

• Production of goods and services is determined by the demand from consumers

• Production of goods and services is determined by a central government

• The way people produce and exchange goods and services

• The basic support systems needed to keep an economy going

What is Per Capita Income?

• the average amount of money earned by each person in a political unit

• the total value of all goods and services produced by a country over a year

• the value of goods or services produced in one country by a company based in another country

• the basic support systems needed to keep an economy going

What is Outsourcing?

• goods or services produced in one country by a company based in another country
  

• GDP

• the exchange of goods among nations without trade barriers, such as tariffs.

• the basic support systems needed to keep an economy going