| 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, including professional, financial, and transportation services. |
| central business district | 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 | A distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller ones and provide services for a larger # of people who are willing to travel farther. |
| city-stare | A sovereignty 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 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 communities collection of basic industries. |
| enclosure movement | A process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of large farms in England during the eighteenth century. |
| gravity model | A model that holds 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 (or hinterland) | The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. |
| Nonbasic industeries | 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 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 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 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 building and inhabitants. |
| Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service. |
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