Ch. 12 Vocab Flashcards

1
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Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement

A

Basic Industries

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2
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Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services

A

Business Services

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3
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A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area

A

Central Place

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4
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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 f people ho are willing to travel farther

A

Central Place Theory

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5
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A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland

A

City-state

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6
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A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and and fields are surrounded the settlement

A

Clustered Rural Settlement

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7
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Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services

A

Consumer Service

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8
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A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages

A

Dispersed Rural Settlement

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9
Q

A community’s collection of basic industries

A

Economic Base

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10
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The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century

A

Enclosure Movement

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11
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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

A

Gravity Model

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12
Q

The area surrounding a central lace from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services

A

Market Area (Hinterland)

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13
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Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community

A

Nonbasic Industries

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14
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The largest settlement in a country if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement

A

Primate city

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15
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A pattern of settlements in a country such the the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement

A

Primate City rule

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16
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Services offered by the government has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement

A

Public Services

17
Q

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service

A

Range (of a service)

18
Q

A pattern of settlement in a country such that the nth largest settlement in 1/n the population for the largest settleme

A

Rank-size rule

19
Q

Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it

A

Service

20
Q

A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants

A

Settlement

21
Q

The minimum number of people needed to support the service

A

Threshold

22
Q

An increase in the percentage of he number of people living in urban settlements

A

Urbanization