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
Services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual customers
Personal services
The larger settlements in a country if it has more than twice as many people as the second raking settlement
Primate city
Services that primarily help people conduct business
Producer services
Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and business
Public services
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
Range
A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is
1/n The population of the largest settlement
Rank size rule
Services that provide goods for sale to consumers
Retail services
Any activity that fulfills a human want or need a return his 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
Services that diffuse and distribute services
Transportation information services
