Chapter 12 Vocab Quiz
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- Central Place Theory
- A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther
- Service
- Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it
- Public Services
- Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses
- Primate City
- The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the 2nd-ranking settlement
- Non-basic Industries
- Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community
- City-State
- A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland
- Threshold
- The minimum number of people needed to support the service
- Market Area
- The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services
- Enclosure Movement
- The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century
- Settlement
- A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants
- Central Place
- A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area
- Primate City Rule
- A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the 2nd-ranking settlement
- Dispersed Rural Settlement
- A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages
- Economic Base
- A community's collection of basic industries
- Consumer Services
- Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services
- Clustered Rural Settlement
- A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement
- Range
- The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
- Gravity Model
- A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service
- Business Services
- Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services
- Rank-Size Rule
- A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement
- Central Business District
- The area of a city where retain and office activities are clustered
- Basic Industries
- Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement