Chapter 6 Vocabulary Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
Action Space -
correct answer ✅The geographical area that contains the space an
individual interacts with on a daily basis
Beaux arts -
correct answer ✅This movement within city planning and urban
design that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with
newer, industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period
include wide thoroughfares, spacious parks, and civic monuments
that stressed progress, freedom, and national unity.
Blockbusting -
correct answer ✅As early as 1900, real estate agents and
developers encouraged affluent white property owners to sell their
homes and businesses at loss by stoking fears that their
neighborhoods were being taken over by racial and ethnic
minorities.
CBD (Central Business District) -
correct answer ✅The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail
stores, offices, and cultural activities are clustered; building
, Barron's AP Human Geography
Chapter 6 Vocabulary Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems
converge
Central place theory -
correct answer ✅A theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the
early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms
of competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed
populations
City beautiful movement -
correct answer ✅Movement in environmental design that drew
directly from the beaux arts school. Architects from this movement
strive to impart order on hectic, industrial centers by creating urban
spaces that conveyed a sense of morality and civic pride, which
many feared was absent from the frenzied new industrial world
Colonial city -
correct answer ✅Cities established by colonizing empires as
administrative center. Often they were established on already
existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures