Chapter 12 Services
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- What is another name for services?
- tertiary jobs
- What is a settlement?
- perminent collection of buildings
- Who has the most services?
- MDCs- they can afford them
- how many people work in services in North America?
- 75%
- What are the three services?
- Public, Business, and Consumer Services
- What event led to the origin of early retail and producer services?
- the origin of transportation
- Which area of North America did colonist favor clustered settlemenes?
- New England
- The minimum number of people needed to dupport a service is the?
- threshold
- The most significant anticipated benefit of the enclosure movement was to?
- promote agricultural efficiency
- According to the gravity model, the potential use of a service at a location is related to what?
- directly ro population and inversely to distance
- Producer services produce what kind of services?
- Services to businesses
- The maximum distance people ar ewilling to travel for a service is the?
- range
- What shape is used to show market area?
- hexagon
- What is an example of a personal service?
- entertainment
- What has the # of employees done in services in the past 30 years?
- doubled
- What have services done in the past 30 years?
- doubled
- Why have producer services taken off?
- more businesses need supplys
- What began personal services?
- begining of burial practices
- How did public services begin?
- protection, built walls (called citadels) to protect city from invadors
- What is a clustered rural settlement?
- surronding the houses are fields, families live close to each other
- What is a Dispersed rural settlement?
- individual farms with own farm land.
- What is a circular rural settlement?
- has central open space surronded by structures
- What is a linear settlement?
- buildings clustered along a road, river, or dike fields extend behind the buildings in long narrow strips
- Where did the first European colonist settle?
- New England, Middle Atlantic, and southeast
- What is the pattern of Consumer services based on?
- size of the settlement
- What is a central market place?
- a market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted form the surronding area
- Why are services centrally located?
- maximize accesibility
- What is the central market theory?
- the geographic concept that explains how services are distributed
- When was the central market theory proposed and what happened after that?
- proposed in the 9130s by german geographer Walter Chistaller, then developed more in the 1950s by others
- What is a market area or hinterland?
- area surronding a service from which consumers are attracted