Chapter 12 Services Vocab Flashcards
Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services
Consumer services
Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services
Business services
Services offered but the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses
Public services
A theory that explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services
Central place theory
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area
Central place
The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services
Market area (hinterland)
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
Range
The minimum number of people needed to support a service
Threshold
A small settlement, generally smaller than a village
Hamlet
A pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the pop. of the largest settlement
Rank size rule
A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement
Primate city rule
The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement
Primate city
A model which 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
A city that is an important node in the global economic system
Global/ world city
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside of the settlement
Basic industries
