AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 6.2 Flashcards

Urbanization increases the percentage of a population living in urban places; urban growth increases the absolute number of urban residents

An urban agglomeration with more than 10 million people

An urban agglomeration with more than 20 million people; every metacity is also a megacity

The outward movement of population and development from a central city and the resulting growth of surrounding suburban areas

The redistribution of people, employment, commerce, and services from the central city toward multiple locations across the metropolitan region

Rapid outward expansion of low-density, dispersed, usually automobile-dependent development onto rural land at the urban fringe

A major peripheral concentration of employment, shopping, services, and entertainment, usually located near major highway intersections

A low-density, semi-rural residential community beyond the continuously built-up suburbs but economically and socially tied to the metropolitan area

A large, rapidly growing suburban city with a predominantly suburban form and usually no dense, dominant downtown