Vocabulary
Services
Settlements
CBD
Economic Base of Settlements
100
What is a service?
An activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money for those who provide.
100
What is the main purpose of a customer service?
to provide service to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay for them.
100
Define a clustered rural settlement?
Where a number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings.
100
Define the CBD.
The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.
100
Define an economic base.
A communities unique collection of basic industries
200
A permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services.
What is a settlement?
200
What is the principle purpose of business services?
to facilitate other businesses
200
Explain a dispersed rural settlement.
They are characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers in settlements
200
What types of retail services are in the CBD?
1.Shops with a high threshold 2. Shops with a long range 3. shops that serve people who work in the center
200
What is the difference between basic industries and nonbasic industries?
Basic industries export primarily to customers outside of the settlement. Nonbasic industries are enterprises whose customers live in the same community, essentially consumer services
300
What is the central place theory?
an explanation of how services are distributed and why a regular pattern of settlements exists.
300
What is the purpose of public services?
It is to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.
300
What does a circular rural settlement consist of?
consists of central open space surrounded by structures.
300
Why are land costs so high in the CBD?
Because the CBD's accessibility produces extreme competition for the limited sites available.
300
Why is a settlements economic base so important?
because exporting by the basic industries brings money into the local economy, thus stimulating the provision.
400
Explain the gravity model.
It predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the nymber of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.
400
On average, what percent of the services in the U.S are in retail, education, health, leisure, proffessional, transportation and financial?
about 10%
400
Where are dispersed rural settlements located in the U.S?
Along the U.S frontier
400
Why are building in the CBD built upwards instead of outwards?
because the intensive demand for space has given the central city a three-dimensional character, pushing it upwards.
400
What kind of jobs are in primary sector and secondary sector.
Primary: Mining Secondary: Construction, manufactoring (durable goods), manufacturing (non durable goods).
500
Describe the rank-size rule.
When a country's nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement
500
What services are in the tertiary sector?
Public, Consumer, business
500
What is the difference between circular rural settlements and linear rural settlements?
In a circular rural settlement, everything is in an open space, however, they are surrounded by structures(houses of the inhabitants). However, in a linear rural settlement, everything is clustered near a road, river, or dike
500
Why is manufacturing and residence excluded from the CBD?
Because high rents and land shortages discourage these two activities to operate outside of the CBD.
500
What jobs are in consumer services, business services, public services.
Consumer: Retail and services trade, and personal services. Business: Financial insurance, real estate,transportation,communication and public utilities. Public services: public services.
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