Ch 12 Flashcards
Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services
Business services
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement
Basic industries
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area
Central place
The theory that explains 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 large number of people who are willing to travel farther
Central place theory
A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland
City-state
A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surrounding the settlement
Clustered rural settlement
Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services
Consumer services
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages
Dispersed rural settlement
A community’s collection of basic industry
Economic base
The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century
Enclosure movement
The model that holds 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 that service
Gravity model
Area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services
Market area (or hinterland)
Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community
Nonbasic industries
The largest settlement in the country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement
Primate city
A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement
Primate city rule
