AP Geo Chapter 13 Vocab Questions with Correct Answers

AP Geo Chapter 13 Vocab Questions with Correct Answers


Question 1:
Annexation
Answer:
Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.


Question 2:
Census Tract
Answer:
An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in
urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.


Question 3:
Central Business District (CBD)
Answer:
The area of a city where retail and office space activities are clustered.


Question 4:
City
Answer:
An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self-governing
unit.


Question 5:
Combined Statistical Area (CSA)
Answer:
In the United States, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tired together by
commuting patterns.


Question 6:
Concentric Zone Model
Answer:
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a
series of rings.

, Question 7:
Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA)
Answer:
In the United States, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan
statistical areas.


Question 8:
Council of Government
Answer:
A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area
in the United States.


Question 9:
Density Gradient
Answer:
The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery.


Question 10:
Edge City
Answer:
A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.


Question 11:
Filtering
Answer:
A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to
abandonment.


Question 12:
Food Desert
Answer:
An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain