Chapter 12 Key Terms Flashcards
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
Basic Industries
Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services.
Business Services
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
Central Place
A theory that explains the distribution of services, based of the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and further apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.
Central Place Theory
Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services.
Consumer Services
A community’s collection of basic industries.
Economic Base
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.
Gravity Model
The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services.
Market Area (or hinterland)
Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.
Nonbasic Industries
The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.
Primate City
A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
Primate City Rule
Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.
Public Services
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
Range (of a service)
Pattern of settlements in a country, such that the Nth largest settlement is 1/N the population of the largest population.
Rank-Size Rule
The minimum number of people needed to support the service.
Threshold
