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| Service | Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it.
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| Settlement | A permanent collection of buildings, where people reside, work, and obtain services.
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| Consumer services | Provides services to individual consumers that desire them and can afford to pay for them.
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| Retail Services | Services that provide goods for sale to consumers.
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| Personal services | Provide services for the well being and personal improvement of the individual consumers.
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| Business services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses.
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| Producer Services | Services that primarily help people conduct business.
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| Transportation and information services | Businesses that diffuse and distribute services
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| Public Services | Services that provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.
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| Clustered rural settlements | A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement.
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| Dispersed rural settlement | A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
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| Enclosure movement | The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century.
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| Central place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted by the surrounding area.
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| Central place theory | It explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and more apart than smaller settlements and provide services for more people who are willing to travel.
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| Market area or Hinterland | The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services.
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| Range | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
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| Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service.
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| Gravity model | Predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the distance people must travel to access it.
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| 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.
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| Primate city rule | A pattern of settlements in country, such that the largest settlement gas more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.
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| Primate city | The largest city in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.
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| Basic industries | Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
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| Nonbasic Industries | Industries that sell their product primarily to consumers in the community.
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| Economic base | A community’s collection of basic industries.
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