Chapters 12-13 😭 Flashcards
Services tend to make up the ____ of employment in (higher % in) _____
Majority; MDC’s (almost 80% in the US)
It’s not necessarily where people live but where the people live who can _______.
Afford the services live
The Goni coefficient is _______.
A visual representation of the income distribution of a nation’s residents(the most commonly used measure of income inequality)
The three category services are: ______.
- Consumer services(retail, hotels, restaurant, etc)
- Business services(law, accounting, banking, architecture, real estate, etc)
- Public services(state and local govt., police, bombero, etc
The location of consumer services follow a regular pattern based on ______.
The size of settlements
Services follow the _______ theory to maximize location to _______.
Central place theory; customers
The central place theory was proposed by _____ in the _____.
Walter christaller; 1930’s
The central place is ______.
The market(for the exchange of goods and services)
A hinterland is a ______.
Market area where the customers are
A threshold is _______.
The minimum # of 🏃🏽🚶 needed to support the service in the area
The range is ______.
The maximum distance peeps are willing to travel to obtain a service.
The best location is the one that minimizes the distance to the service for the largest # of peeps.
This is boring………Ughhh
Christaller used hexagons as a compromise instead of circle sand squares.
Chris finally grew taller and changed his name to Christaller
Central place theory explains the _____ and the size of _____ and ______. Central places compete against one another, creating a ______________.
Distribution; cities; towns; patterns of services and settlements
Hotellings(hotel lungs?) law is ______.
- services tend to cluster(duh)
- competitors want to be as close to each other and the customers as possible(ice cream weirdos on the beach)
Services fall under the ___ sector of the economy.
Tertiary
The gravity model is________.
BORING!!!!
Used to predict the degree of interaction between two places.
The strength of bond depends on PoPuLaTioN and DiSTaNCe
Use the formula: (pop. #1 x pop. #2) / distance^2
As the importance of both of the locations increases there will also be an increase in interaction. The farther apart things the two locations are, and the less important they are, the movement between them will be less _
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Sorry this is boring😐- good luck future self and whoever else tries to study for this 😘😓
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