unit 6 crossword hayoun, gabriella p.6-hafter

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Across
  1. 3. The relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area.
  2. 6. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area.
  3. 7. A dense core of census tracts, densely settled suburbs, and low-density land that links the dense suburbs with the core.
  4. 10. A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connecting to the central city. Many are exclusively residential; others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls.
  5. 11. process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor, leaving the newly deindustrialized region to switch to a service economy and to work through a period of high unemployment
  6. 14. A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment.
  7. 17. A city with a population of greater than 10 million.
  8. 20. An area, like Mesopotamia or the Nile River Valley, where large cities first existed.
  9. 21. The process of industrial deconcentration in response to technological advances and/or increasing costs due to congestion and competition.
  10. 22. Also called economic imperialism, this is the domination of newly independent countries by foreign business interests that causes colonial-style economies to continue, which often caused monoculture
  11. 23. The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement and is dominant in politics, economics, and culture of the country. It is disproportionately larger.
  12. 25. An economy with less emphasis on heavy industry and manufacturing and more emphasis on services and technology
  13. 26. A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
  14. 27. All of the things needed to support a city or industry.
  15. 28. The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
  16. 29. Sending industrial processes out for external production. The term outsourcing increasingly applies not only to traditional industrial functions, but also to the contracting of service industry functions to companies to overseas locations, where operating costs remain relatively low.
Down
  1. 1. Mutual benefits of an industry.
  2. 2. City established by colonizing empires as administrative centers. Often they were established on already existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures.
  3. 4. An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements
  4. 5. A form of tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature.
  5. 6. A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.
  6. 8. Cities that were developed hugely as an effect of the Industrial Revolution.
  7. 9. Real estate agents advising customers to purchase homes in neighborhoods depending on their race.
  8. 12. The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry.
  9. 13. Movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions
  10. 15. The internal physical and human features of a place, independent of the place's relationship to other places around it.
  11. 16. Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences; in geography can be measured by examining residential patterns.
  12. 18. A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.
  13. 19. A ranking of settlements (hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis) according to their size and economic functions.
  14. 24. The minimum number of people needed to support a service.