FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

URBANIZATION EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Mesoamerica

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Chronologically the fifth urban hearth, dating to 200 BCE.

Question 2: blockbusting

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Rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks in American cities that occurs when real estate agents and others stir up fears of neighborhood decline after encouraging people of color to move to previously white neighborhoods.

Question 3: McMansions

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Homes referred to as such because of their "super size" and similarity in appearance to other such homes; homes often built in place of tear-downs in American suburbs.

Question 4: agora

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In ancient Greece, public spaces where citizens debated, lectured, judged each other, planned military campaigns, socialized, and traded.

Question 5: 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 6: trade area

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Region adjacent to every town and city within which its influence is dominant.

Question 7: McGee model

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Developed by geographer T.G. McGee, a model showing similar land-use patterns among the medium-sized cities of Southeast Asia.

Question 8: Mesopotamia

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Region of great cities (e.g. Ur and Babylon) located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; chronologically the first urban hearth, dating to 3500 BCE, and which was founded in the Fertile Crescent.

Question 9: agricultural surplus

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One of two components, together with social stratification, that enable the formation of cities; agricultural production in excess of that which the producer needs for his or her own sustenance and that of his or her family and which is then sold

Question 10: Nile River Valley

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Chronologically the second urban hearth, dating to 3200 BCE.

Question 11: new urbanism

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Outlined by a group of architects, urban planners, and developers from over 29 countries, an urban design that calls for development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs.

Question 12: urban

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The entire built-up, nonrural area and its population, including the most recently constructed suburban appendages. Provides a better picture of the dimensions and population of such an area than the delimited municipality (central city)

Question 13: gated communities

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Restricted neighborhoods or subdivisions, often literally fenced in, where entry is limited to residents and their guests. Although predominantly high-income based, in North America gated communities are increasingly a middle-class phenomenon.

Question 14: site

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The internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location, its spatial character and physical setting.

Question 15: social stratification

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One of two components, together with agricultural surplus, which enables the formation of cities; the differentiation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production, and prestige.

Question 16: world city

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Dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy. Not the world's biggest city in terms of population or industrial output, but rather centers of strategic control of the world economy.

Question 17: first urban revolution

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The innovation of the city, which occurred independently in five separate hearths.

Question 18: 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 19: urban sprawl

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

Question 20: central business district (CBD)

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The downtown heart of a central city, the CBD is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings.

Question 21: 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 22: 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 23: Forum

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The focal point of ancient Roman life combining the functions of the ancient Greek acropolis and agora.situation The external locational attributes of a place; its relative location or regional position with reference to other nonlocal places.

Question 24: leadership class

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Group of decision-makers and organizers in early cities who controlled the resources, and often the lives, of others.

Question 25: agricultural village

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A relatively small, egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture. Starting over 10,000 years ago, people began to cluster in agricultural villages as they stayed in one place to tend their crops.