Chapter 12 Flashcards
A business that sells products or services primarily to customers outside their settlement
Basic business
A service that primarily meets the needs of other businesses including professional financial and transportation services
Business service
Market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area
Central place
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Central place theory
Ariel settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other with fields around in the settlement
Clustered rural settlement
A business that provides services primarily to individual consumers including retail services and education health and leisure services
Consumer service
A real settlement pattern Characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages
Dispersed rural settlement
Communities collection of basic businesses
Economic base
The process of consolidating smile land holdings into smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century
Enclosure movement
An area that has a substantial amount of low income residence and has poor access to a grocery store
Food desert
A major center for the provision of services in the global economy
Global city
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 place from which people are attracted to use the place is goods and services
Market area or hinterland
And urban settlement with a total population in excess of 10 million people
Mega city
And urban settlement with a total population in excess of 20 million people
Meta-city
A business that sells its products primarily to consumers in the community
Non-basic business
A collection of individual vendors who came together to offer goods and services in a location on specified days
Periodic market
The largest settlement in a country if it has more than twice as many people as a second ranking settlement
Primate city
A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has twice as many people as the second Ranking settlement
Primate city rule
service offered by the government to provide Security and protection for citizens and businesses
Public service
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
Range
A pattern of settlements in a country such that NTH largest settlement is one and half the population of the largest settlement
Rank size rule
Any activity that feels a human want or need any returns money to those who provide it
Service
A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants
Settlement
The minimum number of people needed to support a service
Threshold
An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements
Urbanization
