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aphg vocab 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| central place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area. |
| central place theory (christaller's theory) | A theory that explains the distribution of services, larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. |
| city-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland. |
| clustered rural settlement | A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings 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 personal 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. |
| hierarchy of services | This is how places are ranked within the urban hierarchy--it is based on what services are available. A world city would be at the top of this urban hierarchy because it provides so many different services. |
| hinterland | the boundary lands moving away from the Node, or center, of the region become less defined...the periphery. |
| long-lot settlement | System implemented in Quebec, Louisiana, Texas or areas of French influence, that divide the land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals. |
| market area | The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. |
| meters-and-bounds survey | A system of property description using natural features (streams, rocks, trees, etc.) to trace and define the boundaries of individual parcels. Used east of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| nonbasic industries | Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community. |
| periodic market | When small vendors from all around meet up at a certain location to sell goods sometimes weekly and sometimes annually (Farmers Market). |
| personal services | Services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers. |
| 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. |
| primate city | -The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. |
| public servies | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses. |
| range | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. |
| rank-size rule | A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. |
| rectangular (cadastral) survey | Also called the Public Land Survey, the system was used by the US Land Office Survey to parcel land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The system divides land into a series of rectangular parcels. |
| service | An activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. |
| settlement | A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants. |
| threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service |
| township-and-range survey | A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the U.S. interior. |
| urbinization | An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements. |
| world city | A city in which a disproportionate part of the world's most important business is conducted. Not the world's biggest city in terms of population or industrial output, but rather centers of strategic control of the world economy. |
| hierarchy of settlements | This is when settlements are placed in order according to size or the number of goods and services supplied by them. It has a pyramid shape as because there are more small settlements than large ones. |
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