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human geography 3
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- 1what is Urban Area?a central city and the surrounding built up
- 2what is Urbanization?an increase in the percentage of people living in urban areas
- 3what are the causes of urban growth in the united statespoplution growth
1. high natural increase (births-deaths)
2. immigrant - 4Agricultural Revolotion?cities developed with agricultural revolution, the period when humans made the switch from hunting to gathering to farming and raising anmals around 10,000 years ago
- 5what is CBD (central business district)Most models define the key economic zone of the city (if there is such) as the the central bisiness district
- 6what is industial revolution?is define as the changes in maunfacting and transportaion that began fewer things being made out of hand
- 7site (absulte)the characterstics of a location
- climate, soil, landforms, minerals, and buildings mountains home - 8sail and wagon?- water ports became very important
- poor roads conditions made long distance too diffcult
-what it looks like a car with wings - 9what is a rural?countryside like empty land scape just clean
- 10urban geographers generally define a (blank) as a concentration of people and buildings that serve as a center of poltitics, culure and econmics?city
- 11steam engine powered boats, promotes rive cities railboats are starting to cooncet whithin regions WHAT IS THE WORD?steamboat or iron horse
- 12automoblie or aircars allowed for cites to speadout
cities became more interconnected - 13the area surrounding a service from which costmers are attracted What Is The Word????hinterland
- 14cities pay up next to railroad within the interionnof the nation hint 2wordssteel rail or lang haul
- 15simalar to city or townurban
- 16these and other problems many cites establithed " "zoning ordinances
- 17locations and featuresnthat surround the site how is site is connected to its surrundings exampes rivers,roads, cable lines and rail roadssituation ( ralative location)
- 18How did the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution influence the world to become more urban?They wanted to work faster and they do not want to do things all by hand. They made machines to do the work for them faster, creating more buildings.