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22 Cards in this Set
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Basic Industries
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Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
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Business Services
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Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services.
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Central Place
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A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
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Central Place Theory
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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 fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.
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City-State
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A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
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Clustered Rural Settlement
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A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement.
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Consumer Services
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Businesses that provide primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services.
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Dispersed Rural Settlement
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A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than by clustered villages.
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Economic Base
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A community's collection of basic industries.
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Enclosure Movement
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The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century.
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Gravity Model
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A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.
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Market Area (or hinterland)
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The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.
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Nonbasic Industries
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Industries that primarily sell their products to consumers in the community.
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Primate City
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The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
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Primate City Rule
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A pattern in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
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Public Services
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Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.
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Range (of services)
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The max distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
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Rank-Size Rule
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A pattern of settlements in a country such that the Nth largest settlement is 1/Nth the population of the largest settlement.
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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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Settlement
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A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants.
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Threshold
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The minimum number of people needed to support the service.
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Urbanization
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An increase in the percentage of the number people living in urban settlements.
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