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Chapter 12: Services
Mr.Lowes Class.
Term | Definition |
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Basic Industries | Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the stettlement. |
Business Services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services. |
Central Place | A market for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area. |
City-State | A soverign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
Clustered Rural Settlement | A rural settlemetns in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated 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 community's collection of basic industries. |
Enclosure Movement. | The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18'th 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 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 Industries | Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in their community. |
Orimate 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 the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses. |
Range | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
Rank-Size Rule | A pattern settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement in 1/n the population of the largest settlement. |
Service | And activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
Settlement | A permanent collection of building and inhabitants |
Theshold | The minimum number if people needed to support the service. |
Urbanization | An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements. |