AP Flashcards

4298565894	Consumer	Retail, Private school, leisure, hospitality, health care, etc	0
4298569808	Business	Help other businesses: financial, professional	1
4298570593	Public services	Government workers) Public ed, police, mail carriers	2
4298571569	Quaternary sector	Services that deal with information: software development, teaching etc	3
4298572905	Quinary	upper level executives, elected officials, decision makers	4
4298574573	Central Place Theory	Walter Christaller/ explains ideal location for a service. Ideal location is as close as possible to the largest number of potential customers.	5
4298575284	Range	maximum distance people will travel to use a service. Eg: dry cleaners has small range. Disney has enormous range	6
4298575889	Threshold	Minimum number of customers needed to keep a service in business	7
4298576582	Rank Size Rule	nth largest settlement is 1/n size of largest. Eg LA is ½ size of NYC. Chicago is 1/3 size of NYC	8
4298576889	Primate City rule	Largest city is more than twice the size of the next largest.Eg: Bucharest in Romania, Mexico City	9
4298579285	Global Cities	Headquarters of major corp and financial institutions: NYC, London, Tokyo. Decisions affect world economy.	10
4298580228	Regional command and control centers	state capitols/ cities of regional importance.	11
4298582621	Dependent centers	lowest tier of cities. Dependent on economy of the rest of the country/ Orlando, Las Vegas	12
4298583219	basic industries	bring money into a settlement from outside. Essential. Disney	13
4298583771	nonbasic industries	circulate money within community: dry cleaners, local restaurant	14
4298585774	Clustered rural settlements	Circular: New England, Germany long lot/ linear Mississippi river (French settled areas)	15
4298587378	Dispersed rural settlements	more common with commercial ag. Closest neighbor may be a mile away.	16
4298588092	Enclosure movement	Process in UK whereby circular rural settlements were transformed into dispersed rural settlements. 1800's.	17
4298588745	Agglomeration Economies	clustering of similar types of services resulting in benefits to each. Eg. Specialist doctors' offices near hospital Eg: hotels and restaurants near Disney	18
4298589976	Density gradient	greatest land cost/ least space available is in CBD. Space increases/ cost decreases with greater distance outward.	19
4298592417	. Cities in Latin America	Some of World's largest	20
4298593316	What are 3 common characteristics	Grid pattern Cathedral in center Open plaza in center	21
4298595284	Large squater settelment in Brazil are called	favelas	22
4298597092	in Spanish speaking countries they are called	Barriadas	23