Urban Models (Unit 6)
This urban model consists of CBD in the center with the city growing outward in a series of concentric rings.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
What is the name for a residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city?
What is a suburb?
What is it called when the final product weighs more or takes up more space than the raw materials?
What is bulk gaining?
According to Wallerstein's Theory, highly developed countries like the U.S., Germany, and Japan would be considered as what type of countries?
What is core countries?
What is the type of agriculture that requires a lot of input from the farmer, including high amounts of labor, fertilizers, and technology?
What is intensive agriculture?
What model consists of a city that develops in sectors from the CBD?
What is the sector model?
BOSNYWASH is an example of what?
What is a megalopolis?
Who created the Least Cost Theory?
Who is Alfred Weber?
This development index combines income, education, and life expectancy to measure a country's overall development.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
If a farmer is growing food to feed only his family or a small amount of people, what type of agriculture is he practicing?
What is subsistence agriculture?
If a city grows around multiple centers, such as an airport, university, and the CBD, what type of model does it follow?
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
The largest city in France is Paris, which has a population that is over 2 times the size of the population of the second largest city in France. What is Paris an example of?
What is a primate city?
Would copper smelting be an example of bulk gaining or bulk losing?
What is bulk losing?
If a country is experiencing rapid industrial growth and has characteristics of both developed and developing countries, it would be considered as what type of country?
What is a newly industrialized country (NIC)?
In the Von Thunen Model of agricultural land use, what are the two main factors considered?
What is transportation and perishability?
What model consists of an outer ring, known as the periferico, that is characterized by poverty and poor infrastructure?
What is the Latin American City Model?
If a city consisted of a population exceeding 20 million people, what type of city would it be classified as?
What is a metacity?
What is the most important factor in determining the location of a manufacturing plant according to Weber's Least Cost Theory model?
What is transportation cost?
This index measures gender inequality by comparing reproductive health, empowerment, and economic participation.
What is the Gender Inequality Index (GII)?
What is the form of agriculture based on herding domesticated animals?
What is pastoralism/pastoral nomadism?
What city model contains 3 CBD's?
What is the Sub-Saharan African City Model?
A city that grew around trade, commerce, and markets that are often located near ports, rivers, or coasts are known as what type of cities?
What is a mercantile city?
This term describes the clustering of similar or related industries to share services, labor, and infrastructure, which can reduce costs.
What is agglomeration?
What is the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country's borders in a given year called?
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
This is a type of agriculture found mainly in tropical rainforest regions. It consists of clearing a plot of land, usually by slash-and-burn, growing crops for a few years, and then abandoning the land once its nutrients are depleted and moving to a new area.
What is shifting cultivation?