Aphg 6.1 vocab Word Scramble
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| 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 |
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