The SIZE and LOCATION of Cities, Explained [AP Human Geo Review—

1. The ranking of various cities in which the most powerful and influential hold the highest places and the least powerful and influential hold the lowest places is known as:

• • Urban Hierarchy

• Metropolitan status
• Urban classification
• City hierarchy

2. A city's interconnection with other urban areas is called: 

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• suburban linkage
• • situation

• rural connectivity
• urban isolation

3. What is the rank-size rule?

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• The rank-size rule applies only to rural areas and not urban systems.
• • It explains the distribution of a country's cities based on proportional population.

• The rank-size rule states that all cities have the same population.
• The rank-size rule is a method for ranking countries by size.

T/F: According to the gravity model : the larger and closer two cities are the more connected they will be

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• True

• False

What is a synonym for central place

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• city

• center
• periphery
• outskirts