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AP HUG Vocab Ch 12
Vocabulary for AP Human Geography Ch 12
Question | Answer |
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Basic Industry | 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 |
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 |
Economic Base | A community's collection of basic industries |
Public Services | services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
Enclosure Movement | the process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of large farms in England during the 18th century |
Dispersed Rural Settlement | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
Range (of a service) | the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
Central Place | a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
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 a service |
Rank-size Rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
Dispersed Rural Settlement | a rural settlement characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
Market Area | or hinterland- the area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services |
Service | any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
City-state | a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
Central Business District | CBD- the area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered |
Settlement | a permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants |
Primate City | the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking city |
Nonbasic Industry | industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the settlement |
Central Place Theory | a theory that explains distribution based on the fact that settlements serve as centers for market areas for services; large settlements are fewer and farthat apare that smaler ones and provide for a lot of people willing to travel further |
Threshold | the minimum number of people needed to support the service |
Clustered Rural Settlement | a rural settlement in which the houses are situated close to each other and and fields surround the settlement |
Consumer Services | businesses that provide primarily to individual consumers: retail, education, health, and leisure |