AP Human Geography Unit 6

The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.

• Census tract

• Central Business District (CBD)

• Central place

• Suburb

People from varied racial, ethnic, and national backgrounds and with diverse lifestyle preferences.

• Primate City

• Social Heterogeneity

• Urbanization

• Rank-size Rule

Delineation of a boundary around an urban area within which new development must occur.

• Smart Growth

• Unbridled Growth And Bounty

• Urban Growth Boundary

• Underground Bounty

A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement.

• Enclosure Movement

• Range

• Clustered Rural Settlement

• Primate City

A community where people are employed in secondary and tertiary sector jobs

• Informal Settlement

• Central Place

• Urban Settlement

• Primate City

What does scale of analysis in geography refer to?

• The distance on a map in relation to the Earth's surface

• How information is organized at different scales

• The size of a map in relation to the Earth's surface

• The level of detail in a map

What does a regional scale of analysis focus on?

• Organizations below the national level

• The entire Earth's surface

• A country's border

• Different districts or regions within a country

The process by which cities grow or by which societies become more urban.

• Urbanization

• Suburbanization

• Rural Depopulation

• Gentrification

A model that describes the layout of a city, emphasizing the importance of transportation routes.

• Concentric Zone Model

• Sector Model

• Multiple Nuclei Model

• Urban Realms Model

The movement of people from rural areas to cities, often in search of better economic opportunities.

• Urbanization

• Rural-Urban Migration

• Suburbanization

• Counterurbanization