Unit 5 : Part 3 #66-88
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Services | performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others |
| Consumer services | businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services. |
| Business services | services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services |
| Public services | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
| Clustered Rural Settlements | A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement |
| Dispersed Rural Settlements | A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
| Enclosure Movement | The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. |
| Gravity Model | 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. |
| Central Place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area. |
| 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 settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. |
| Market Area | The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. |
| Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service, a region marking a boundary |
| Rank-size Rule | In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy., A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
| 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. |
| Basic Industries | Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement. |
| Non Basic Industries | Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community. |
| Economic Base | A community's collection of basic industries., economic activities that allow a community to exist. For example, a town might exist because a mineral resource in the area is being developed, a community's main source of income |
| Central Business District | The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered. |
| Sustainable Development | using natural resources at a rate that does not deplete them for future generations |
| Greenhouse Effect | natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases |
| Global Warming Theory | Theory that the Earth is gradually warming as a result of an enhanced greenhouse effect in the Earth's atmosphere caused by ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide produced by various human activities. |
| Renewable Resources | a resource that can be renewed, solar, wind |
| Nonrenewable Resources | resources such as fossil fuels, which can not be made again. |
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