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Vocab
100
The type of service that makes up 44% of all U.S. jobs.
What are Consumer Services?
100
Increasing Number of People in Cities
What is urbanization?
100
The optimal location within a market.
Where is the middle of all customers?
100
Low wages (in other countries i.e. India) & ability to speak English.
What are Back Offices?
100
Industries that mainly sell to people in the same community.
What are Nonbasic Industries?
200
independent self-governing communities
What are city states?
200
The location of 8 out of the 10 largest cities.
What are LDC's?
200
The country’s nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement (Ex. The 2nd largest city is one half the size of the largest
What is Rank-Size Rule?
200
Taxes (less taxes) & privacy (don't loan your money to others)
What are Offshore Financial Services?
200
Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it.
What is a Service?
300
The type of services that involves the trading of different materials such as tools and food.
What are business services?
300
Several families living close to each other, fields surrounding
What are clustered rural settlements?
300
The largest city has more than twice the population as the second largest city.
What is Primate City Rule?
300
Resorts, retirement, residential, manufacturing, military, mining
What are Dependent Centers?
300
A permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services.
What is a Settlement?
400
The type if services that provides security & protection for individuals and businesses.
What are Public Services?
400
The differences between Urban and Rural.
What are size, density, and homogeneous vs. heterogeneous?
400
The model that predicts that the optimal location of a service is related to the number of people in the area and the distance people must travel to access it.
What is the Gravity Model?
400
The 3 types of World Cities.
What are Dominant, Major, and Secondary?
400
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 farther apart than smaller ones.
What is Central Place Theory?
500
What FIRE stands for.
What is finance, insurance, and real estate?
500
Found in Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and Western US.
What are Dispersed Rural Settlements?
500
Individual vendors who offer goods and services on a specific day & place.
What are Periodic Markets?
500
Four Levels of Business Services. (3 of 4)
What are World Cities, Command and Control centers, Specialized Producer-Service Centers, and Dependent Centers?
500
When the government forced villages off of lands and combined lands into single farm.
What is the Enclosure Movement?