AP Human Geography Urban Terminology VOCAB

What is the most visited city in the world (pre-COVID)?

• tokyo

• new york city

• bangkok

• paris

What term refers to a city/metro area with a population of 10 million to 19.9 million?

• Megacity

• Metacity

• Primate City

• Suburb

What term refers to a city with a population of 20 million or more?

• Megacity

• Metacity

• Primate City

• Suburb

What term describes the largest city in a country, much bigger and more powerful than any other city there?

• metacity

• primate city

• boomburb

• world city

What rule states the population of the 2nd largest city in a state is about half the size of the largest city, and the third largest city’s population is about a quarter of the largest city’s population?

• Central Business District (CBD)

• Rank Size Rule

• Suburbanization

• Urban Sprawl

What is the central location where the majority of businesses (retail areas, office spaces) are located?

• Edge City

• Periphery

• Exurb

• Central Business District (CBD)

What term refers to a city that exerts influence on a global scale?

• World City

• Megacity

• Boomburb

• Suburbanization

What is the process where cheaper land outside a city leads to cheaper and larger homes, with people escaping the noise, congestion, and crime of downtowns?

• Suburbanization

• Urban Sprawl

• Exurb

• Primate City

What term describes the outskirts of a city?

• Exurb

• Periphery

• Boomburb

• Megacity

What term refers to the unplanned and uncontrolled growth of cities?

• Suburbanization

• • Urban Sprawl

• Central Business District (CBD)

• Rank Size Rule