Chapter 12 Flashcards
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement
Basic industries
Service is it primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services
Business services
The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered
Central business district
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 service 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
Central place theory
A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland
City state
A rule settlement in which the houses and a farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and field surrounded the settlement
Clustered rural settlement
Business that provides 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 communities collection of basic industries
Economic base
The process of consolidating small land holdings 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
Also called the hinterland the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the places goods and services
Market area
Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community
Non basic industries
A decision by a corporation to turn over much of the responsibility for production to independent suppliers
Outsourcing
