Exam 12: Services and Settlements

The ________ consists of a central open space surrounded by structures.

Ancient Memphis,in Egypt,may have been the first settlement to exceed 30,000 inhabitants around 5,000 years ago.

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is its threshold.

According to the primate city rule,the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.

Mexico follows the primate city distribution,where its largest city,Mexico City,is five times larger than its second largest city Guadalajara.

Generally,if the settlement hierarchy does not graph as a straight line,then the society does not have

About ________ percent of all U.S.jobs are in the public sector,________ percent of public school employees were excluded from the total and counted instead under education (consumer)services.

The clustered linear rural settlement consists of a central open space surrounded by structures.

An activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it is known as

Every settlement provides consumer services to people in a surrounding area,but not every settlement of a given size has the same number and types of business services.

Briefly describe off-shore financial services.

Compare the world's most populous cities to the most important business service centers.

Geographers apply ________ to create market area studies that assist service providers with opening and expanding their facilities.

Briefly discuss the range of a service.

________ explains how services are distributed and why a regular pattern of settlements exists,at least in developed countries such as the United States.

Briefly discuss the three types of services.

Briefly discuss clustered circular rural settlements.

A central place is a market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area.

Figure 12.7.1: Economic Base of U.S. Cities -According to Figure 12.7.1,in which of the following regions are you most likely to find manufacturing of durable goods in the U.S.?

Headquarters of large corporations are clustered in world cities,and shares of these corporations are bought and sold on the stock exchanges located in world cities.