Key Issue 1
Key Issue 2
Key Issue 3
Key Issue 4
Miscellaneous
100
Consumer, Public, and Business
What are the three types of services?
100
The area surrounding a service from which consumers are attracted.
What is the market area/hinterland?
100
Industries that sell their products outside the settlement.
What is a basic industry?
100
The earliest urban settlement
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Services for individual consumers who can afford to pay for them. (half of the jobs in the U.S. are this type of service.
What are consumer jobs?
200
The fastest growing consumer service
What is health care?
200
Locating the most profitable land area.
What is the purpose of the Central Place Theory?
200
When Sacramento is to California

When Tallahassee is to Florida

What are state capitals.
200
Settlements characterized by farmers living on isolated, individual farms
What is a dispersed rural settlement?
200
The service that deals with facilitating the activities of other businesses. 
What are business services?
300
Service that provides protection to citizens and buisnesses
What are public services
300
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
What is range?
300
Settlements specializing in public services
What are state capitals, large universities, and military bases?
300
An agricultural-based community with close proximity to each other 
What is a clustered rural settlement?
300
The service that provides security and protection for citizens and businesses.
What are public services?
400
Transportation and Information, Financial, and Proffessional
What are the three types of business services?
400
When the largest city has 2 times as many people as the 2nd ranking city
What is primate city rule?
400
Four factors that distinguish global cities


What are economic, cultural, political, and infrastructure?
400
Differences between urban and rural settlements
What are large size land areas, high density population, and social heterogenity?
400
The steps used to identify the best location and area. 
What is the gravity model?
500
Consumer service including department stores, grocers, and motor vehicle sales. 
What are retail and wholesale services. 
500
When the country's n/th largest settlement is 1/nth the population size of the largest settlement
What is Rank Size Rule?
500
The three levels global cities are divided into
What are alpha, beta, and gamma?
500
Types of clustered rural settlements. 
What are circular rural and linear settlements?
500
Profitability of a location determined by the range and threshold. 
What is Central Place Theory?