What is a market economy?

A structure that allows buyers and sellers to exchange good services

A group of people bound together by shared culture traits

Something that can be naturally replenished faster than it is consumed

What does gentrification mean?

Urban renewal that leads to displacement of the occupying demographic

Define a secondary city:

City with between 500,000- 3 million people living in it

What is centripital force?

A factor that that unites a state or nation and strengthens its support

Refuse a loan to someone because they live in an area deemed financial risk

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1
The percentage of a population who can read and write:
Literacy rate
Crude ability rate
Reading and writing percentage
Demographics
2
What is a market economy?
An economic system combining public and private enterprise
A place where you go to exchange for goods
A structure that allows buyers and sellers to exchange good services
When the central government controls all major economic decisions
3
The USA has a unitary government
False
True
4
Central place theory does not take into account the size and distribution of central places within a system:
False
True
5
What model proposes that cities develop around multiple centers of activity?
Galactic
Multiple nuclei model
Concentric
Sector
6
Which of these is a renewable source?
Nuclear energy
Solar energy
Oil
Fossil fuels
7
Define a nation:
A political entity characterized by defined territory
An invisible line that marks the limits of a states territory
Nation is another word for country
A group of people bound together by shared culture traits
8
Define renewable:
Something that can be used over and over again
Something that cannot be naturally replenished
Something that can be naturally replenished faster than it is consumed
Something that is bad for the planet but is cheaper
9
State that is separated into many non contagious parts:
Unitary
Fragmented
Prorupted
Elongated
10
What type of diffusion means to be spread by the movement of people spreading ideas from their homes to a new location?
Contagious
Tertiary
Relocation
Hierarchical
11
What does gentrification mean?
Urban renewal that leads to displacement of the occupying demographic
Refuse a loan to someone because they live in an area with financial risk
The size, number, functional characteristics, and spacing of settlements
The increasing proportion of a population living in urban areas
12
The 3 most common world cities are L.A, Tokyo, and Chicago
False
True
13
South Africa and Australia are in the southern hemisphere:
True
False
14
Define a secondary city:
Has the biggest city in the country that it inhabits
City with over 50,000 people living in it
City with between 10,000-49,000 people living in it
City with between 500,000- 3 million people living in it
15
Absolute location is the exact, fixed position in a place:
False
True
16
Which of the following is a positive of urban revitalization?
Loss of identity
Gentrification
Economic growth
Displacment
17
What is centripital force?
A factor that that unites a state or nation and strengthens its support
The culture in which brings people together
The gravitational pull of two countries
The support people have on each other in a community
18
Define redlining:
Refuse a loan to someone because they live in an area deemed financial risk
Dominate and industrialized cities
People moving from urban to rural areas
Persuading owners to sell property cheaply
19
An area of land that has common features is?
Human environment interactions
A region
A place
Location
20
The mass killing of one particular group is called?
A Civil war
Blockbusting
Confederate
A Genocide

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