| Question |
Answer |
| Service |
Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. |
| Settlement |
A permanent collection of buildings, where people reside, work, and obtain services. |
| Consumer services |
Provides services to individual consumers that desire them and can afford to pay for them. |
| Retail Services |
Services that provide goods for sale to consumers. |
| Personal services |
Provide services for the well being and personal improvement of the individual consumers. |
| Business services |
Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses. |
| Producer Services |
Services that primarily help people conduct business. |
| Transportation and information services |
Businesses that diffuse and distribute services |
| Public Services |
Services that provide security and protection for citizens and businesses. |
| Clustered rural settlements |
A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement. |
| Dispersed rural settlement |
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. |
| Enclosure movement |
The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. |
| Central place |
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted by the surrounding area. |
| Central place theory |
It explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and more apart than smaller settlements and provide services for more people who are willing to travel. |
| Market area or Hinterland |
The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services. |
| Range |
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. |
| Threshold |
The minimum number of people needed to support the service. |
| Gravity model |
Predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the distance people must travel to access it. |
| 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. |
| Primate city rule |
A pattern of settlements in country, such that the largest settlement gas more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement. |
| Primate city |
The largest city in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement. |
| Basic industries |
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement. |
| Nonbasic Industries |
Industries that sell their product primarily to consumers in the community. |
| Economic base |
A community’s collection of basic industries. |
Weston Sandfort
on 2009-03-20
Spanish 3
