Ch. 12 Vocab Flashcards
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement
Basic Industries
Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services
Business Services
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area
Central Place
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 f people ho 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 and fields are surrounded the settlement
Clustered Rural Settlement
Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services
Consumer Service
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages
Dispersed Rural Settlement
A community’s collection of basic industries
Economic Base
The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century
Enclosure Movement
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
Gravity Model
The area surrounding a central lace from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services
Market Area (Hinterland)
Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community
Nonbasic Industries
The largest settlement in a 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 the the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement
Primate City rule
Services offered by the government has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement
Public Services
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
Range (of a service)
A pattern of settlement in a country such that the nth largest settlement in 1/n the population for the largest settleme
Rank-size rule
Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it
Service
A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants
Settlement
The minimum number of people needed to support the service
Threshold
An increase in the percentage of he number of people living in urban settlements
Urbanization
