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Services and Settlements - AP Human Geography, Chapter 12, Rubenstein

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Basic industries   show
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Business sevices   show
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Central place   show
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Central place theory   show
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show A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other, with fields surrounding the settlement  
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show Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail, education, health, and leisure services  
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show A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villiages  
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Economic base   show
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Enclosure movement   show
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show A model that says 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  
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Market area   show
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Nonbasic industries   show
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show The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement  
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Primate city rule   show
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Public services   show
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show The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service  
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show A pattern of settlements in a country in which the nth largest settlement is 1/nth the size of the largest  
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Threshold   show
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show An increase in the percentage and number of people living in urban settlements  
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