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22 Cards in this Set
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Basic Industries
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Industries that sell their products/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 Business District (CBD)
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The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered
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Central Place
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A market center for the exchange of services by ppl 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 & farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger # of ppl who are willing to travel further
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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 services 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 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 # of larger farms in england during the 18th c.
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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 # of ppl in a location and inversely related to the distance ppl must travel to reach the distance
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Market Area (aka hinterland)
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The area surrounding a central place, from which ppl are attracted to use the place's goods and services
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Nonbasic Industries
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Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers i 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 ppl as the 2nd-ranking settlement
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Primate City Rule
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A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many ppl as the 2nd-ranking settlement
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Public Services
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Services offered by the gov. to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses
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Range (of a service)
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The max distance ppl are willing 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 xth largest settlement is 1/x 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$ 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 # of ppl needed to support the service
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