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9682773655Basic IndustriesDefinition: Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement. Example: Agriculture, ranching, fishing, forestry, mining, and petroleum Application: Very few basic industries, but all essential to our economy.0
9682773656Business ServicesDefinition: Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services Example:Banks, trains, public buses. Application: These are essential to our economy because they allow all services to operate.1
9682773657Central PlaceDefinition: A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area Example: Midtown, Manhattan Application: Central Place is the prime place for a service to be based off of the central place theory.2
9682773658Central Place TheoryDefinition: 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. Example: Central Place Theory.. Application: The Central Place Theory3
9682773659City-stateDefinition: A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland Example: Vatican City, (Hong Kong?) Application: City States change the pace of geography4
9682773660Clustered Rural SettlementDefinition: A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement. Example: Ranches Application: Clustered Rural Settlements are very secluded.5
9682773661Consumer ServicesDefinition: Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services Example: McDonalds. Application: Large part of financial sector today.6
9682773662Dispersed Rural SettlementDefinition: A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. Example: Farms. Application: Separated from the typical.7
9682773663Economic BaseDefinition: A community's collection of basic industries. Example: Primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. Application: this is everything in the economy.8
9682773664Enclosure MovementDefinition: The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. Example: Smaller farms in England Application: Very important because it describes the enclosure movement9
9682773665Gravity ModelDefinition: 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 the service. Example: Amusement Park has lots of gravity. Application: Things with more gravity are rarer.10
9682773666Market Area (or hinterland)Definition: The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. Example: Westchester-->NYC Application: Hinterlands are still a part of the cities markets.11
9682773667Nonbasic IndustriesDefinition: Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community. Example: Gym, Laundry, Application: Non basic industries12
9682773668Primate CityDefinition: The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. Example: NYC Application: Most powerful city in country13
9682773669Primate City RuleDefinition: A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. Example: NYC Application:Most powerful city in Country14
9682773670Public ServicesDefinition: Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses Example: Subway system Application: Allows economy to run smoothly.15
9682773671Range (of a service)Definition: The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service Example: 5 min to Convenience store Application: Helps people to determine the central place for a service.16
9682773672Rank-size RuleDefinition: A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the 11th largest settlement is in the population of the largest settlement. Example: ....? Application:....?17
9682773673ServiceDefinition: Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. Example: Application:18
9682773674SettlementDefinition: A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants. Example: NYC Application: There are MANY settlements in the World19
9682773675ThresholdDefinition: The minimum number of people needed to support the service Example: only a certain percentage of actually people using service. Application: THe threshold is a necessary thing to be computed before starting a service.20
9682773676UrbanizationDefinition: An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. Example: People move into Hong Kong Application: Cities are the more powerful parts of countries.21
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