AP Vocab chapter 12 Flashcards

9594082215	Basic industries	Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement	0
9594085692	Business services	Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services	1
9594090594	Central place	A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area	2
9594095425	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 settlement and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther	3
9594106359	City-state	A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland	4
9594112258	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	5
9594117668	Consumer services	Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, healthy, and leisure services	6
9594124693	Dispersed rural settlement	A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages	7
9594133765	Economic base	A community's collection of basic industries	8
9594137192	Enclosure movement	The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century	9
9594146108	Gravity model	A model which holds 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	10
9594157692	Market area	(or hinterland) The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services	11
9594162082	Nonbasic industries	Industries that sell their products primarily tot consumers in the community	12
9594167075	Primate city	The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement	13
9594172107	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	14
9594179198	Public services	Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses	15
9594188535	Range	(of a service) The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service	16
9594191516	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	17
9594200019	Service	Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it	18
9594204594	Settlement	A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants	19
9594207672	Threshold	The minimum number of people needed to support a service	20
9594211960	Urbanization	An increase in the % of the number of people living in urban settlements	21