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Ch 12 KI 1 & 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Consumer Services | Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers including retail services and education, health and leisure services |
| Business Services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services |
| Public Services | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
| 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 |
| Central Place Theory | A theory that explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services |
| Central Place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
| Market Area/Hinterland | The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services |
| Gravity Model | A model which 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 |
| Range | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
| Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support 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 |
| 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 |
| Primate City | The largest settlement in a country if it has more than twice as many people as the second raking settlement |