AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY CH 12- Services and Settlements – Flashcards

Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents or urban settlements to work in

A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found is close together is what kind of settlement

In the US about ______ of all jobs are in consumer services

Consumers services include

In the US educational services account for about ______ of jobs

Most people in the world live in what type of settlement

Which of the following is not primarily a consumer service

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is

A central place is a

If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution

The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the

A primate city is

If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants, how many people live in the fifth largest city

The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the

The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is

The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the

Periodic markets are likely to feature

In a linear community, we can deduce that the best location for a service is the

Central Place Theory predicts larger settlements are

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of

The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is

A ______ is an example of a settlement that specializes in public services

An analysis of this map of global cities indicates that

The attraction of the outsourced "call center" industry to locate in India can best be explained by

The attraction of the outsourced "offshore banking" industry can best be explained by

World cities are defined by

LDCS specialize in what two types of global business services

Two major benefits many LDCS offer in terms of global financial services are

What factors determine where back office services will locate in LDCs

Back-office functions are also called

What technical development has allowed back-office functions to relocate to LDCs

This map of offshore financial centers indicates that

Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity

A firm that sells it's products primarily to consumers outside it's settlement is a

Richard Florida's research identified a relationship between the distribution of

One of the most important basic activities in the southern Great Lakes region is

Attracting a new basic industry is important to a community, primarily because it

The French long-lot system was developed primarily because of

The most significant impact thay Great Britain's enclosure movement made on the rural landscape was to

Clustered rural settlements were most common in which region of colonial America

The most prominent structure in ancient city of Ur was the stepped temple called _______, which was built about 4,000 years ago

The most prominent structure in the ancient city of Athens was the ____, which still looks over the city

Because of its centrality in an ancient communications network, we still have the old saying "All roads lead to ____"

Which of the following is considered to be a hearth of urban settlement

Heterogeneity is more a characteristic of

Urban residents are generally more tolerant of ____ than the residents of rural communities, but residents of urban settlements often feel that they are surrounded by people who are indifferent and reserved

Urbanization can be analyzed by looking at the increase in the ____ of people living in cities

Which statement best describes the relationship between urbanization and the Industrial Revolution in Europe

Higher social heterogeneity in urban settlements means that

The most significant anticipated benefit of the enclosure movement was to

The fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. brought about what change in urban settlements

Typical medieval European urban settlements were characterized by the

The city-state is an example of

The map of early urban settlements indication that by 1 A.D.