Cities
12.1 and 12.2
Vocabulary
Page 289
Economy
12.3
Numbers
12.4
Review
Page 286
100
What is the largest city, which has 34,400,000 people?
What is Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan?
100
Minimum number of people needed to support the service.
What is threshold?
100
They can be identified by computing the percentage of the community's workers employed in different types of businesses.
What is community basic industries?
100
The percentage of people living in cities increased how much in 1800 to 6 percent in 1850.
What is 3%?
100
Job growth in MDC's is in what sector?
What is Service Sector?
200
What is the largest city in the United States?
What is New York City, U.S.?
200
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
What is central place?
200
The distinctive economic structure of a city is its what?
What is economic base?
200
Nearly what percent of all jobs in the United States are in consumers services?
What is 50%?
200
LDC's have most of the world's largest cities, but MDC's have higher or lower percentages of urban dwellers?
What is higher?
300
The first city above 200,000 people.
What is Babylon, Babylonia (Iraq)?
300
A community's collection of basic industries.
What is Economic Base?
300
The economic base of some settlements.
What is Secondary Sector?
300
What percent of all jobs in the United States are in business services?
What is 25%?
300
What services are disproportionately clustered in cities?
What is Business Services?
400
The population of Memphis, Egypt 3,500 years ago.
What is over 30,000?
400
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
What is Basic Industries?
400
Where mining settlements are located near.
What is reserves of coal, petroleum, and other resources?
400
About 16% of all U.S. jobs are in the what services?
What is Public Services?
400
Do smaller or larger settlements offer services with smaller market areas, ranges, and thresholds?
What is smaller settlements?
500
Name the city that is first over 20 million people.
What is Tokyo, Japan?
500
The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
What is Primate City?
500
Exporting by the basic industries bringing money into the local economy, thus simulating the provision of more nonbasic consumer services for the settlement.
What is settlement's economic base?
500
The share of employment in public services has declined during the past how many decades?
What is 2 decades?
500
What kind of people are attracted to world cities by cultural diversity?
What is talented people?