Key Terms Chapter 12 Rubenstein

67895201	Basic industries	industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement
67895202	business services	services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses
67895203	central business district (CBD)	the area of the cty where retail and office activities are clustered.
67895204	central place	a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
67895205	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 farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther
67895206	city-state	a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
67895207	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 settlement.
67895208	consumer services	businesses that provide services primarily to indivudual consumers, including retail services and personal services.
67895209	dispersed rural settlement	a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
67895210	economic base	a community's collection of basic industries
67895211	enclosure movement	the process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms n England during the eighteenth century.
67895212	gravity model	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 this service.
67895213	market area (or hinterland)	the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.
67895214	nonbasic industries	industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.
67895215	personal services	services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers.
67895216	primate city	the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
67895217	primate city 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.
67895218	producer services	services that primarily help people conduct business.
67895219	public services	services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.
67895220	range (of a service)	the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
67895221	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.
67895222	retail services	services that provide goods for sale to consumers.
67895223	service	any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it.
67895224	settlement	a permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants.
67895225	threshold	the minimum number of people needed to support the service.
67895226	transportation and information services	services that diffuse and distribute services.