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Any activity that fulfills a human want or need, receiving money in return.
What is a service?
Market used for the exchange of goods, services and serves as an all purpose building.
What is a Central place?
The maximum number of people needed to support services.
What is Threshold?
Name of the native killed that started the bad relations between the Mormon settlers and the Utes.
Who is Old Bishop?
The process in which urban settlements grow.
What is Urbanization?
Permanent collection of buildings where people work and live.
What is settlement?
The extent of a feature's spread over space.
What is concentration?
Ranking settlements from largest to smallest.
What is Rank-Size Rule?
The original name of the Provo River.
What is Timpanogos River?
Farmers living on their own farm, isolated from their neighbors.
What is a Dispersed Rural Settlement
Area that surrounds services and consumers are attracted to.
What is Market Area or Hinterland.
The frequency with which something occurs in space.
What is Density?
This 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.
What is Gravity Model?
Year the first LDS pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley
What is 1847?
Buildings clustered along a geographical or man made feature with land being distributed in long lots or strips.
What is a Clustered Linear Settlement
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for services.
What is Range?
Name of the interpreter between the Wampanoag's and the pilgrims.
Who is Squanto?
If a settlement hierarchy does not graph as a straight line, then by default it follows this rule.
What is the Primate City Rule?
Name of the man sent to Provo by Brigham Young to "Setle" it
Who is John D Lee.
Agricultural based community where families live in close proximity to each other.
What is a Clustered Rural Settlement?
Helps to explain where the best place to open a shop is.
What is Central Place Theory?
Date and year the pilgrims landed in Plymouth.
What is December 23, 1620
In distribution, the countries largest city is called.
What is a Primate City?
Name the Spanish priests who came through the valley
Who are father Escalante and Dominguez?
This resulted in the consolidation of individually owned land surrounding villages and turning them it into farm land.
What is the Enclosure Movement?