click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ch.12 vocab
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Basic Industries | Industries that sell their products or 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 |
City-State | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
Clustered rural settlement | A rural settlement in which the houses and farm building 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 a 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 (hinterland) | The area surrounding a central place from which the 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 as the second-ranking settlement |
Primate City 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 |
Public Services | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
Range (of a service) | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
Rank-size rule | A pattern of settlement in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
Service | Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide |
Settlement | A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants |
Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service |
Urbanization | An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements |