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AP GEO HCHS CH 12
Adams HCHS AP Human Geo. Rubenstien Ch 12
Question | Answer |
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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 place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area. |
central place theory | explains the distributions of services, settlements serve as centers of market areas for services with larger settlements having a greater threshold and range. |
city-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland. |
clustered rural settlement | A settlement in which the houses of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the homes. |
dispersed rural settlement | A settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than a close grouping. |
consumer services | Retail, education, health, and leisure services. |
economic base | A community’s collection of basic industries. |
enclosure movement | The process of consolidating small farms into large farms in England during the 18th century. |
gravity model | States 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. |
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, has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. |
public services | Services offered by the 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/nth the population of the largest settlement. |
threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service. |
urbanization | An increase in the number of people living in urban settlements. |
service | Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. |