Unit 6 APHUG Vocab

What term describes the increasing concentration of people in urban areas?

• Nodal region

• Urbanization

• Megalopolis

• Reurbanization

A measure that shows how much of a country's total population lives in urban areas is called:

• Metropolitan area

• Urban hierarchy

• Percent urban

• Urban system

Which term refers to a large city that dominates a country's urban system in size and influence?

• Megacity

• World city

• Nodal city

• Primate city

An area of continuous urban development containing multiple large cities is known as:

• Megalopolis

• Metacity

• Edge city

• Boomburb

Cities designed before automobiles, characterized by narrow streets and mixed land use, are called:

• Edge cities

• Nodal cities

• Pedestrian cities

• World cities

What term describes residential areas that developed along electric railway lines in the early 1900s?

• Exurbs

• Streetcar suburbs

• Boomburbs

• Edge cities

The movement of people from cities to surrounding areas is known as:

• Reurbanization

• Urbanization

• Suburbanization

• Leap-frog development

Development that occurs when builders skip over less expensive land to build on cheaper land further out is called:

• Edge city development

• Leap-frog development

• Suburbanization

• Exurban growth

Rapidly growing suburbs with populations over 100,000 are known as:

• Metacities

• Megacities

• Exurbs

• Boomburbs

Large suburban commercial and business districts that form at major highway intersections are called:

• Edge cities

• World cities

• Nodal cities

• Primate cities