Larkey Chp. 12 key issue 1-2 – Flashcards
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Define Service
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any activity that fulfills a human want or need, and returns money to those who provide it.
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What sector of the economy do services fall under?
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Tertiary
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Define Settlement
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Permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work and obtain services.
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What distribution must services follow?
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Large extent the distribution of where people live, with in a city, country, or world region.
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What are the three subdivisions of the service sector of the economy?
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Consumer, Public, and Business
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Define consumer services
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To provide services to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay for them.
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What are the four main types of consumer services, and provide examples of each.
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Retail and Wholesale= Department stores and Grocery stores Education= (*doesn't include K-12 teachers) school staff, professors Health and Social= doctors Leisure and Hospitality= restaurant, bars, etc.
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Define Business services
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To facilitate the activities of other businesses
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What are three types of business services, and provide an example of each.
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Profesional= design, law, technical Financial= FIRE, finance, insurance, and real estate, bankers Transportation, information= Trucking and warehousing
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Public service
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Provide security and protection for citizens and businesses
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Explain where an increase and/or decrease have occurred in business services
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-Expanded jobs in professional areas -jobs grew slower in finance and transportations b/c of improved efficiency
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Explain where an increase and/or decrease have occurred in consumer services
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-provisions of health care jobs went up -increase in edu. jobs
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Explain how the service sector contributed to the 2008 recession.
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-rapid ise in real estate -gov. wasn't looking hard enough at all the loans they were giving out
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Central place theory
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Selecting the right location for a new shop. Helps to explain how the most profitable location can be identified
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What does central place theory seek to explain?
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Where a shop is to be located for maximum, profit
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define central place
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market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding
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Define market area
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The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted
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What other term is used to refer to market area?
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Hinterland
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What shape does central place their hypothesis for market areas?
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Hexagon
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Why does central place theory prefer a hexagon?
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-not a circle b/c they overlap each other -not a square because not equal distance from the center
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Define range
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Maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service
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Services with a long range
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Concert, sports game, etc
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Services with a short range
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Grocery stores, pharmacies, fast food, etc
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Define threshold
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Minimum # of people needed to support the service/business
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Explain how some people can't be counted for when counting a threshold.
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It depends on the service. For example vegetarians probably won't go to a hamburger place.
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Smaller neighborhoods with in larger settlements must also do what?
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Provide services with small thresholds and ranges
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In MDC's, the pattern of the cities follows the rank-size-rule What is this?
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Country's nth largest settlements is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.
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If the largest city in a country is more than twice the size of the second city, is said to be what?
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Primate city
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Where is the best location for a service (once threshold and range as beed found) ?
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Proximity to costumers. Minimal transportations to costumers
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What two patterns are reflected by consumer behavior?
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-greater # of people in area greater # of costumers - farther people are from service, less likely to use it
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Define Periodic Market
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A collection of individual vendors who come together to offer goods and services in a location on specific days.
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What groups of people and areas are provided goods by periodic markets?
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-residents of developing countries -rural areas in developed countries
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The gravity mode helps explain this as the optimal location is_____ related to the # of people in the area and_____ related to the distance they must travel.
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1. directly 2. inversely
