Chapter 15 Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. A type of development where developers purchase land and build communities beyond the periphery of the city's built area. (2 words no hyphen)
  2. 11. The rule that describes one way in which the size of cities within a region may develop. (2 words)
  3. 14. Cities shaped by the distances people could walk. (2 words)
  4. 15. Area with a high concentration of people.
  5. 16. Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities. (2 words)
  6. 18. A place with a permanent human population.
  7. 20. Primarily residential areas near cities.
  8. 23. Cities that exert influence far beyond their national boundaries. (2 words)
  9. 25. The permanently inhabited portion of the Earth.
  10. 26. Services that are usually expensive, need a large number of people to support, and are only occasionally utilized. (2 words)
  11. 28. A ranking of cities based on influence or population size. (2 words)
  12. 29. The rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city.
  13. 31. A higher density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries.
  14. 36. A collection of adjacent cities economically connected across with population density is high and continuous. (2 words)
  15. 37. A zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services and surrounds a central place. (2 words)
  16. 38. A chain of connected cities
  17. 39. Cities with a continuous urban population of greater than 20 million.
  18. 40. A central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes. (2 words)
Down
  1. 1. A theory that explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region. (2 words)
  2. 2. Services that are usually less expensive, require a small population to support, and are used on a daily or weekly basis. (2 words)
  3. 3. The process of developing towns and cities.
  4. 4. Rapidly growing communities.
  5. 6. The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services.
  6. 7. A model that states that larger and closer places will have more interactions than places that are smaller and farther from each other.
  7. 8. The counter flow of urban residents leaving cities.
  8. 9. An interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional. national, and global scale. (2 words)
  9. 10. He described a model to describe urban growth based on transportation technology.
  10. 12. Communities that grew up along side rail lines (2 words)
  11. 13. Cities that are command centers on a regional and sometimes national level. (2 words)
  12. 17. Consisted of an urban center and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages. (2 words, no hyphen)
  13. 19. Prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs.
  14. 21. Describes the characteristics at the immediate location.
  15. 22. The process of suburbanites returning to live in the city.
  16. 24. Refers to the location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places.
  17. 27. The shape Christaller chose to depict the market area in his Central Place theory.
  18. 30. The process of moving to a large residential area adjacent to an urban area.
  19. 32. The size of a population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable.
  20. 33. Areas with a low concentration of people.
  21. 34. A city that is more developed than other cities in the urban system, and more powerful.
  22. 35. An area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys. (2 words)
  23. 36. Cities with a population of more than 10 million people.