Services Vocabulary Flashcards
A business that sells its products or services
primarily to consumers outside the settlement
Basic business
A service that primarily meets the needs of other
businesses, including professional, financial, and
transportation services
Business services
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 serve as centers
of market areas for services; large 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 rural settlement in which the houses and farm
buildings of each family are situated close to each
other, with fields surrounding the settlement
Clustered rural
settlement
A service that primarily meets the needs of
individual consumers, including retail, education,
health, and leisure services
Consumer service
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated
farms rather than clustered villages
Dispersed rural
settlement
A community’s collection of basic industries
Economic base
The process of consolidating small landholdings
into a small number of larger farms in England
during the 18th century
Enclosure movement
An area that has a substantial amount of low-
income residents and has poor access to a grocery
store, defined in most cases as further than 1 mile
Food Desert
The area surrounding a central place from which
people are attracted to use the place’s good and
services
Hinterland
Or
Market area
A business that sells its products primarily to
consumer in the same settlement.
Nonbasic business
A city that is the largest settlement in a country and
has more than twice as many people as the second-
ranking settlement
Primate city rule
A city that is the largest settlement in a country and
has more than twice as many people as the second-
ranking settlement.
Primate city
A service offered by the government to provide
security and protection for citizens
Public service
