Chapter 12: Services Flashcards
Business Services
Services that primarily meet the needs of other business, including professional, financial, and transportation services.
Basic Industries
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
Central Place
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
Central Place Theory
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 of people who are willing to travel farther.
City State
A sovereign state comprising of a city and its immediate hinterland.
Basic Industries
Industries that sell the products of services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
Business Services
Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services.
Central Place
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
Central Place Theory
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 that smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.
City-State
A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
Clustered Rural Settelment
A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement.
Consumer Services
Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services.
Dispersed Rural Settlement
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
Economic Base
A community’s collection of basic industries.
Enclosure Movement
The process of consolidating small landholdings into smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century.
Gravity Model
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.
Market Area
Also called hinterland. The area surrounding a central place form which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services.
Nonbasic Industries
Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.
Primate City
The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
Public Services
Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.
Primate City Rule
A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest city has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking city.
Range (of a service)
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service.
Rank-Size Rule
A pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/nth the population of the largest settlement.
Service
Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it.
