Exam 20: Population and Urbanization

_____ is a large clustering of service facilities and residential areas near highway intersections that provides a sense of place to people who live, shop, and work there.

Demography is the study of the size, composition, growth (or shrinkage), and distribution of

The result of the multiple-nuclei model is that

Which five types of urban dwellers did Gans (1968, 1991) identify?

_____ describes the relationship between people and their environment, such as land and structures.

_____ is a graph that represents the age and sex of a population.

"Growth rate equals births minus deaths plus net migration" is the

_____, which can be as high as 30, refers to the number of children a woman is capable of bearing.

Sociologist William Flanagan (1990) suggested three principles of public sociology to apply to go beyond replacing old buildings with new ones to building community. What are they?

_____ is the process by which an increasing proportion of a population lives in cities and has a growing influence on the culture.

A _____ is a place in which a large number of people are permanently based and do not produce their own food.

A central city surrounded by smaller cities and their suburbs is a(n)

The sector model modified the concentric zone model by

Approximately how many cities with over one million residents does the world presently have?

In stage one of the demographic transition,