Try the fastest way to create flashcards

The Cultural Landscape Chapter 12: Key Issues 1&2

Get a hint

Service

Click the card to flip 👆

1 / 16

1 / 16

Students also viewed

ap human political vocab

40 terms

Unit 3 Vocab APES

20 terms

CA World Geo - Brown - Chapter 8 and 9 Vocab (3)

23 terms

Unit 4 Mod 27-29

36 terms

14 terms

17 terms

58 terms

AP Human Geography - Agriculture

17 terms

Terms in this set (16)

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

A permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services.

Consumer services

To provide services to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay for them.

Business services

To facilitate the activities of other businesses.

Public services

To provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.

Central place theory

Theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another.

A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area.

Market area (hinterland)

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted.

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

The minimum number of people needed to support the service.

A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

Primate city rule

The largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

A country's largest city

Predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.

An area that has a substantial amount of low-income residents and has poor access to a grocery store, defined in most cases as further than 1 mile.