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Aphg 6.1 vocab

Question	Answer
The permanently inhabited portion of earths surface	Ecumene
Areas with low concentrations of people	Rural
Areas with highly concentrated people	Urban
Areas that are primarily residential near cities	Suburbs
The process of developing towns and cities	Urbanization
A place with a permanent human civilization	Settlement
A common statistic associated with regions, countries, and even continents	Percent urban
The characteristics at the immediate location; physical features, climate, labor force, and human structures	Site
The location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places	Situation
An urban center and it surrounding territory and agricultural villages	City-state
Area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys in which seasonal floods and fertile soils allowed for and agricultural surplus	Urban hearth
A central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes, and includes the surrounding suburbs	Urban area
Higher density area with territoriality inside officially recognized political boundaries	City
Collection of adjacent cities economically connected, areas witch population density is high and continuous	Metropolitan area/metro area
A city of at least 50,000 people, the country in which it’s located, and adjacent countries that have a high degree of social and economic integration, or connection, with an urban core	Metropolitan statistical area(MSA)
Cities of more than 10,000, the country in which they are located, and surrounding countries with a high degree of integration	Micropolitan statistical area
Focal point in a matrix of connections	Nodal region
Particularly high in cities, meaning that the population of cities, as compared to other areas, contains a greater variety of people	Social heterogeneity
In the form of transportation improvements has led to urban growth	Time-space compression
Describe urban growth based on transportation technology	Borchert’s transportation model
Cities shaped by the distances people walk	Pedestrian cities
Communities that grew up along rail lines, emerged, often creating a pinwheel shaped city	Streetcar suburbs

Created by: Samanatha

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