Urban Geography Vocabulary

A(n) _____ traffic or trade market that is not controlled by the government. 

Define leapfrog

• Adding unfair terms for living based on their race or ethnicity. 

• When developers build new residences some distance from an existing urban area.

• To fix the urban areas in cities.

• Children's toy

Match the following terms to their correct definition

• A society with a diverse population (various kinds of people including multiple ethnicities, culture

• Ex-urbanization

• The Migration of people from urban areas to rural. 

• Social homogeneity

• A society with a population that is mostly alike or the same

• Social heterogeneity

List Site Factors

• landforms, climate, vegetation, availability of water, soil quality, minerals, and wildlife. 

• Vegans, Walter, air

• Population density, infrastructure, economic development, and cultural heritage.

• Geology, topography, hydrology, and meteorology.

Define Zoning Ordinances

•  Regulations that define how a property can be used.

• Laws that dictate how a property can be developed.

• Rules that dictate how a property can be sold.

• Regulations that define how a property can be taxed.

The (a)   of (b)   agents creating ​ fear and ​ (c)   among homeowners in a neighborhood to get them to sell their homes at ​ (d)   prices (so they can sell them for more and make more money). 

• Practice
• real estate
• panic
• low
• government
• high
• love

What are urban and suburban areas of concentrated poverty and low income

• Inner city

• outer city

• middle city

• low city

Define urbanization

• The process of switching rural areas to more industrial / Urban.

• The process of switching urban areas to be more rural

• The increase in the population of cities.

• The increase in the population of large cities.

Define situation factors

• The fun of a location's surrounding area.

• The facts of a location's surrounding area.

• The features of a location's surrounding area.

• The foster of a location's surrounding area.

Gentrification is the ​ (a)   where mid to ​ (b)   class individuals begin to move into lower or ​ (c)   -class communities. 

• process
• upper
• working
• lower
• cooking
• processs