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

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Basic industries   Industries that sell their products or services primarily to customers outside the settlement  
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Business sevices   Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services  
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Central place   A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area  
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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 - larger settlements are fewer and father apart and provide services to people willing to travel  
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Clustered rural settlement   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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Consumer services   Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail, education, health, and leisure services  
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Dispersed rural settlement   A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villiages  
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Economic base   A community's collection of basic industries  
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Enclosure movement   The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 1700s  
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Gravity model   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   The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services  
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Nonbasic industries   Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community  
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Primate city   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   A pattern of settlements in a country in which the largest settlement has twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement  
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Public services   Services offered by the government to provide security and protection to citizens and businesses  
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Range (of a service)   The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service  
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Rank-size rule   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   The minimum number of people needed to support a service  
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Urbanization   An increase in the percentage and number of people living in urban settlements  
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