APHG Unit 4 Chapter 12

A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants.

settlements

Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it.

services

Maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service.

range

Minimum number of customers to make service profitable

threshold

A collection of individual vendors who come together to offer goods and services in a location on specified days.

periodic markets

the largest city whose population is more than twice the size of the second largest city

primate city

the area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted

market area

what sector?:computer programmer

quaternary

what sector?: wheat farmer

primary

what sector?:Automobile assemble line worker

secondary

what sector?:restaurant chef

tertiary

What are some examples of consumer services?

Restaurant server, leisure and hospitality

What are some examples of business services?

a company that provides accounting services, transportation services

What are some examples of public(government) services?

a fire fighter, national defense

What is the relationship for consumer services?

purchased by households; provided by businesses

What is the relationship for business services?

purchased by businesses; provided by businesses

What is the relationship with public services?

purchased by households; provided by the government

According to the Central Place Theory, which of the following is the correct order of settlement from smalllest to largest settlement? 

hamlet, village, town, city

Which shape is used in the Central Place Theory to represent a market area?

hexagon

Which of the following most likely has the largest RANGE? hospital, gas station, grocery store, restaurant.

Hospital

Which of the following most likely has the lowest THRESHOLD? grocery store, convenience store, shopping mall, concert venue.

convience store

Generally, the optimal location for services is best described as which of the following?

Services are usually as near to customers as possible

Which of the following services is the largest sector of the U.S. economy?

customer services

What are the procedures in Market Area Analysis?

1. Define market area

2. EStimate the Range

3. EStimate the threshold

4. predict the market share

According to Rank Size Rule, if the population of largest city in a county is 500,000, what is population of the 5th largest city?

100,000

primate or rank size?

1.500,00

2. 189,002

3. 50,000

Primate city

Primate or rank size?

1.500,000

2. 259,000

3. 166,980

Rank size

Area of research and production of high-tech products.

technopole

A company that produces a product or service that is sold within the community.

non-basic business

A collection of structures at a single location.

settlement

A city that is a major center of services for the globalized economy at the center of the flows of information and money.

global city

The process by which the population of urban settlements grow.

urbanization

An urban settlement with more 10 million inhabitants (but less than 20 million inhabitants).

mega city

An urban settlement with more 20 million inhabitants.

meta city

A company that produces a product or service that is exported outside the community.

basic business

The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century

enclosure movement

Basic or non-basic?:Medtronic builds a new campus in Cottage Grove.

Basic

Basic or non-basic?:The Ford Motor Company builds a new factory in Woodbury

Basic

Basic or non-basic?:Amazon builds a new "fulfillment" center in Washington County.

Non-Basic

Basic or non-basic?: Trader Joe's opens a new grocery store in Woodbury.

Non-basic

Basic or non-basic?:. Wal-mart builds a new mega-store in Cottage Grove.

Non-basic

Most of the earliest known settlements were located in which of the following areas?

Mesopotamia

Which of the following is NOT believed to be one of the services that first attracted humans to settlements.

entertainment

What are the characteristics of a city according to Louis Wirth’s?

Size, heterogeneity, density

Which of the following explains why offshoring of financial services to LDCs is so attractive?

LDCs typically have lenient or non-existent tax laws.

Which of the following is one of the situation factors necessary for the development of a technopole

proximity to a large, well-funded university

The movement of population "from Rustbelt to Sunbelt" can also be charaterized as which of the following movements?

from manufacturing to services

Dispersed Rural Settlements were intitially located in which of the following regions of America?

Middle Atlantic colonies

Linear clustered rural settlements are so-named for which of the following reasons?

Spatial arrangement of settlements usually follows a road or river.