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LP - Chapter 12
Lake Park - AP Human Geography - Chapter 12 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Basic Industries | Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
Business Service | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services |
Central Business District (CBD) | The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered |
Central Place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
Central Place Theory | Theory that explains the distribution of services, settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther |
City-state | A sovereign state compromising a city and its immediate hinterland |
Consumer Services | Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services abd education, health, and leisure service |
Economic Base | A community’s collection of basic industries |
Enclosure Movement | The process of consolidating small landholdings into smaller number of large 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 a service |
Market Area (hinterland) | The area surrounding a central place, from which 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 had more than twice as many people 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 |
Range (of a service) | 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 |
Service | Any 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 their service |