AP Human Geography Chapter 12
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 basic industries | Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
| business services | services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses |
| central business district (CBD) | the area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered |
| 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 |
| city-state | a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
| clustered rural settlement | a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement |
| consumer services | businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services |
| dispersed rural settlement | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
| economic base | a community's collection of basic industries |
| 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 |
| market area/hinterland | the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services |
| nonbasic industries | industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community |
| primate city | the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking 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 |
| public services | services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
| range (of a service) | the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
| rank-size rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
| service | an activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
| settlement | a permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services |
| threshold | the minimum number of people needed to support the service |
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