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Rubenstein 12
Services
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Basic Industries | Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers outside the settlement. |
| Business Services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses. |
| Central Business District | The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered. |
| Central Place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding areas. |
| Central Place Theory | A theory that explains the distribution of services |
| City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and it’s immediate hinterland. |
| Clustered rural settlement | A rural settlement 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 customers |
| 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 18th century. |
| Gravity Model | The 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 t |
| Market Area | 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. |
| Personal Services | The services that provide the well being and personal improvement of individual consumers. |
| Primate City | The largest settlement in a country |
| Primate City Rule | A pattern of settlements in a country |
| Producer Services | Services that primarily help people conduct business. |
| Public Services | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection services for citizens and businesses. |
| Range | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. |
| rank-size rule | A pattern of settlements in a country such that a nth largest settlement in 1/n the population of the largest settlement. |
| Retail Services | Services that provide goods for sale to consumers. |
| 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 the service. |
| Transportation and Information Services | Services that diffuse and distribute services. |