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APHG Chpt 12 KTs
Chapter 12 Key Terms Rubenstein
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Farmers living on large private farms far away from other families. Found mainly in developed countries | dispersed rural settlement |
| The move from clustered settlements in Great Britain between 1750 and 1850 to dispersed rural settlements | enclosure movement |
| Services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers. | personal services |
| Services that primarily help people conduct business. | producer services |
| A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area. | central place |
| The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. | market area |
| The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered | central business district |
| Services that diffuse and distribute services. | transportation and information services |
| Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community. | nonbasic industries |
| The minimum number of people needed to support the service | threshold |
| Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services andpersonal services. | consumer services |
| Services that provide goods for sale to consumers. | retail services |
| A theory that explains the distribution of services | central place theory |
| Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses. | business services |
| Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement. | Basic industries |
| The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement. | primate city |
| A pattern of settlements in a country, such that each settlement is half the size of the next largest. | rank-size 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 rule |
| The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. | Range |
| A settlement where a small number of families live close together. Most people in the world live in this kind of settlement. | clustered rural settlement |
| A community's collection of basic industries. | economic base |
| An activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. | Service |
| Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses | public services |
| A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland | city-state |
| 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. | gravity model |
| A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants. | Settlement |
| The kind of job where workers are paid by the government to provide for basic needs like education, health and safety. | public services |
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