FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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LP - CHAPTER 13 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Metropolitan Statistical Area

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In the United States, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the country within which the city is located, and the adjacent countries meeting one of the several test indicating a functional connection to the central city

Question 2: Suburbanization

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Movement of upper and middle class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well is deteriorating social conditions. Process became a phenomenon by second half of the 20th century

Question 3: Urban Renewal

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Program in which cities identify blighted inner city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers

Question 4: Density gradient

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A change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery

Question 5: Counterurbanization

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The process of moving away from urban areas, usually when people want to get away from traffic, crime, and pollution

Question 6: Commercialization

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The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity

Question 7: Disamenity Sector

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The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs or drug lords

Question 8: Micropolitan Statistical Area

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An urban eyes the area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the country in which it is found, and adjacent countries tied to the city

Question 9: Spaces of Consumption

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Areas of a city, the main purpose of which is to encourage people to consume goods and services; driven primarily by the global media industry

Question 10: Greenbelt

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A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, and other types of open space to limit the sprawl of urban area

Question 11: Sunbelt

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Phenomenon the movement of millions of Americans from northern in northeastern states to the south and southwest regions of the United States

Question 12: Zone

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Area of the city with the relatively uniform land use ( e.g. an industrial zone, or a residential zone)

Question 13: Gateway City

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Cities that, because of the geographic location, act as ports of entry in distribution centers for large geographic areas

Question 14: Urban Sprawl

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Unrestricted growth in many American urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expenses of land, with little concern for urban planning

Question 15: Tear-downs

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Homes bought in many American suburbs with the intent of tearing them down and replacing them with much larger homes often referred to as Mcmansions

Question 16: Zoning Laws

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Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed to take place in certain areas. In the United States, areas are most commonly divided into separate zones of residential, retail, or industrial use

Question 17: Urbanization

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An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements

Question 18: Sprawl

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Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area

Question 19: Edge city

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A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area

Question 20: Zoning

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A system of land use regulation whereby cities determine where each type of economic enterprise - residential, commercial, and industrial - can be located

Question 21: Filtering

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A process of change in the use of the house, for single-family owner occupancy to abandonment

Question 22: Squatter Settlements

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In area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures

Question 23: Blockbusting

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A process by which a real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood

Question 24: Zoning Ordinance

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A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in the community

Question 25: Edge Cities

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Describes the shifting focus of urbanization away from the central business district (CBD) toward new economic activity at the urban fringe. Characterized by extensive amount of office in retail space, few residential areas, and modern buildings