Unit 7 vocab

19736831	Range	the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
19736832	Producer services	services that primarily help people conduct business
19736833	Primate city rule	a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the larges settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement
19736834	Primate city	the largest settlement in a counrtry, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement
19736835	consumer services	services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers
19736836	Central Business District	the area of the city where retail and office activivies are clustered.
19738174	Basic Industries	industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement
19738175	Trading Bloc	a group of neighboring countries that promote trade with each other and erect barriers to limit trade with other blocs.
19738176	Personal services	manufacturing activites in which cost of transporting both raw materials and finished products is not important for determining the location for the firm.
19738177	Non-basic industries	industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community
19738178	Market area	the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.
19738179	Gravity model	a model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number or people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.
19738180	Enclosure movement	the process of consolidating small landholding into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century
19738181	Economic base	a community's collection of basic industries
19738182	Dispersed rural settlement	a rural settlement pattern characterized b isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
19738183	Textile	a fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing.
19738184	situation factors	the location of a place relative to other places; location factors related to transportation of materials into and from a factory.
19738185	Site factors	location factors related to the costs of factors of production inside the plant, such as land, labor, and capital.
19738186	Right-to-work state	A US state that has passed a law preventing a union and company from negotiating a contract that requires workers to join a union as a condition of employmnet.
19738187	Post Fordist	production adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks.
19738188	New International Division of Labor	transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-piad, less skilled workers, from more developed countries to less developed countries.
19738189	Maquiladora	factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border, to take advantage of much cheaper labor in Mexico.
19738190	Labor Intensive Industry	Industry in which labor costs comprise a high percentage of total expenses.
19738191	Business services	services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses
19738192	consumer services	businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services.
19738193	Industrial Revolution	a series of improvements in the 1750's-1950's in industrial technology that transformed the proccess of manufacturing goods.
19738194	Fordist	production form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specidic task to perform repeatedly.
19738195	Clustered rural settlement	a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlment.
19738196	Cottage industry	manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory; commonly found before the industrial revolution
19738197	Bulk-reducing industry	an industry in which the final product weighs less than or comprises a lower volume than the inputs.
19738198	break-of-bulk point	a location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another
19738199	City state	a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
19738200	Central Place theory	a thoery 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 farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a large number of people who are willing to travel farther.
19738201	Central Place	a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surroundign area.
19738202	Transportation and Information services	services that diffuse and distribute services
19738203	threshhold	the minimum number of people needed to support the service
19738204	Settlement	a permanentcollection of buildings and inhabitants.
19738205	service	an activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those that provide it.
19738206	Retail services	services that provide goods for sale to consumers.
19738207	Rank-Size rule	a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the "n"th largest settlement is 1/"n" the population of the largest settlement.