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Ch. 12 Geo Quiz
Chapter 12 Geography Quiz - orange book
Question | Answer |
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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 |
central place theory | a theory that explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services |
city-state | a sovereign state comprising a city & its immediate hinterland |
clustered rural settlement | a rural settlement in which the houses & farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other, with fields surrounding the settlement |
consumer services | businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services & education, health, & leisure services |
dispersed rural setlment | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
economic base | a community's collection of base industries |
enclosure movement | the process of consolidating small land-holdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century |
gravity model | 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 & inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service |
market area (hinterland) | the area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods & 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 people as the second ranking settlemtn |
primate city rule | a pattern of settlement 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 & protection for citizens & 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 & returns money to those who provide it |
settlement | a permanent collection of buildings & inhabitants |
threshold | the minimum number of people needed to support a service |
urbanization | an increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements |