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FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT
CITIES & URBAN LAND EXAM QUESTIONS Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation
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-Guarantee passing score -23 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Economic base: nonbasic
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Enterprises whose customers live in the same community
Question 2: Urban renewal
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The cleaning and redevelopment of urban slum
Question 3: World city
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Dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy: center of the flow of information and capital
Question 4: Megacities
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A city with a population of over 10 million people
Question 5: Ghetto
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Used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority live because of social, legal, or economic pressure
Question 6: Gentrification
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A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominately low-income renter-occupied area to a predominately middle-class owner-occupied area
Question 7: Redlining
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A practice by bans and mortgage companies of demarcating areas considered to be a high risk for housing loans
Question 8: Ethnic neighborhood
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An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
Question 9: 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 10: Centrality
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The strength of an urban center in its capacity to attract producers and consumers to its facilities; a city's "reach" into the surrounding region
Question 11: Decentralization
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The tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city
Question 12: Census tracts
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Small districts used by the U.S Census Bureau to survey the population
Question 13: Infrastructure
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The underlying framework of services and amenities needed to facilitate productive activity
Question 14: Gateway city
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A city that serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical situation
Question 15: Emerging cities
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City currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate
Question 16: Blockbusting
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Process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear ethnic minorities will move into their neighborhood
Question 17: Inner city
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the central area of a major city; in the US it often applied to the poorer parts of the city center where people are less educated and wealthy where there is more crime Question 18: Economic base: basic
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Export primarily to consumers outside the settlement
Question 19: Entrepot
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A trading center, or simply a warehouse, where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit
Question 20: CBD (Central business district)
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Downtown of a city
Question 21: Primate city
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The largest settlement in a country if it has more than 2x as many people as the second-ranking settlement
Question 22: Squatter settlements
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Illegal housing settlements usually made of temporary shelters that surround large cities
Question 23: Peak land value intersection
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The most accessible and costly parcel of land in the CBD and therefore in the entire urbanized area
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