Barron's AP Human Geography - Unit
7 Vocab 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 ✅movement within city planning and urban design
that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with newer,
industrial ones
Blockbusting -
correct answer ✅real estate agents and developers encouraged
affluent white property owners to sell their homes and businesses
at a loss by stoking fears that their neighborhoods were being
overtaken by racial or ethnic minorities.
Borchert's Epochs -
correct answer ✅According to the geographer John R. Borchert,
American cities have undergone five major epochs, or periods, of
development shaped by the dominant forms of transportation and
communication at the time
, Barron's AP Human Geography - Unit
7 Vocab Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Central Business District (CBD) -
correct answer ✅The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail
stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated
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 a 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
Colonial City -
correct answer ✅City established by colonizing empires as
administrative centers
Concentric Zone Model -
correct answer ✅Model that describes urban environments as a
series of rings of distinct lands using radiating out from a central
core, or central business district. Created by Burgess.
7 Vocab 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 ✅movement within city planning and urban design
that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with newer,
industrial ones
Blockbusting -
correct answer ✅real estate agents and developers encouraged
affluent white property owners to sell their homes and businesses
at a loss by stoking fears that their neighborhoods were being
overtaken by racial or ethnic minorities.
Borchert's Epochs -
correct answer ✅According to the geographer John R. Borchert,
American cities have undergone five major epochs, or periods, of
development shaped by the dominant forms of transportation and
communication at the time
, Barron's AP Human Geography - Unit
7 Vocab Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Central Business District (CBD) -
correct answer ✅The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail
stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated
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 a 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
Colonial City -
correct answer ✅City established by colonizing empires as
administrative centers
Concentric Zone Model -
correct answer ✅Model that describes urban environments as a
series of rings of distinct lands using radiating out from a central
core, or central business district. Created by Burgess.
