5 Written Questions

1. A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area
2. They are considered more efficient
3. the country's nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement (the 2nd largest is 1/2 the size of the largest)
4. Something that fulfills a want or need to return $ to those who provide it
5. Tertiary

5 Matching Questions

1. What are other names for clustered rural settlements?
2. What were middle atlantic colonies' settlements like?
3. What is a range and exs of small and large ones
4. What are clustered rural settlements?
5. What is the primate city rule

1. a areas where a number of families live in close proximity with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farms
2. b Since there was a wide variety of cultures, and most came as individuals dispersed settlements became popular.
3. c the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service- small range: convenience store, large range: sports stadium
4. d the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the 2nd ranking settlement
5. e Hamlet or village

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Began with nomads who focused on burying dead
   1. Why and who did consumer services begin with?
   2. Why/who did business services begin with?
   3. What do consumer services do and examples
   4. Why/who did public services begin with?
2. Business- higher demand and better pay
   1. What are the 2 patterns the gravity model takes into account?
   2. What type of service are the majority of people in and why?
   3. What is the best shape to use for market areas and why?
   4. What type of economic activity is services?
3. Circles leave gaps and can cause overlapping. With a square, the distance from the center varies among points along a square
   1. What 2 things determine the size of a market area?
   2. What is wrong with using circles or squares for market areas?
   3. What is the best shape to use for market areas and why?
   4. What is a range and exs of small and large ones
4. a service that facilitates other businesses- FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate), professional management (lawyers, accounting, architecture, design) and transportation (trucking-semis and metra, broadcasting, electricity)
   1. what do business services do and examples
   2. Why/who did business services begin with?
   3. What do consumer services do and examples
   4. What do public services do and examples
5. A region with a core where the characteristic is most intense
   1. What is a service
   2. What is a central place?
   3. What is a nodal region
   4. What is a threshold

5 True/False Questions

1. What is a threshold → the minimum number of people needed to support the service

   True        False

2. What happened in clustered rural settlements when the population grew too large for the fields? → New settlements- called satellite settlements, were established nearby because not all land was under cultivation

   True        False

3. What two patterns are most clustered rural settlements? → Hamlet or village

   True        False

4. What were the disadvantages to dispersed settlements? → lost time moving between fields, had to build more roads to connect the small lots, and farmers had been restricted to what they could plant

   True        False

5. What are the 2 patterns the gravity model takes into account? → 1. the greater the number of people living in an area, the greater the number of potential customers 2. the farther people are from a particular service, the less likely they are to use it

   True        False