Chapter 12 Service Review

VOCAB: makes a primary product and change it into something else

If you make millions of dollars, where should you put your money?

VOCAB: the extraction of economically valuable products from the earth.

You would find exurbs in a ____ area

Ms. Santoro’s ETSY shop is an example of

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is

The {blank} model predicts the OPTIMAL location of consumers.

a ranking of settlements according to their size and economic function

the outer limits or edge of an area or object

The minimum number of people need to support the service

An area within a city in a LDC in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent

a large rapidly growing city that remains essentially suburban in character even as it reaches populations like cities

Majority of people live in

The model that discusses space time compression and applies the concept to the advancement in transportation over time.

LDCs have less cities than MDCs

[Blank] created the Central Place Theory

a heterogeneous, dynamic urban region composed of multiple dense centers, intervening suburbs, embedded green spaces,etc

the amount of land different land users are prepared to pay for locations at various distances from the city center

market center 4 the exchange of goods & services by people attracted from the surrounding area

provide security and protection for citizens and businesses

The 4th largest settlement has a pop size of 2000. What size is the largest city? Rank-Size

VOCAB: concerned with the collection, processing, &manipulation of information & capital [$$]

Which of the following is NOT a global city

Technology has blurred the lines of Rural & Urban in

Wealthier People live in cities

Global Cities have larger retail stores that require large ranges and thresholds

VOCAB: geometric arrangement of objects in space.

Urban Areas are very

barridas / barrios / favelas are examples of

More people living in a settlement means more potential customers

A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service is known as the

helps facilitate the activities of other businesses

The FIRST Urban Area was

VOCAB: any activity that fulfills a human want or need & returns money to those who provide it

Where would you find a variety of jobs, people, religions

a permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services

People prefer to get services from the NEAREST location

provide services to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay fro them.

It is important to use the [blank] when locating a service

VOCAB: describes the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place.

Development of new housing sites @ low density & @ locations that are not contiguous to the existing build up area

VOCAB: extent of a feature’s spread over space

to the movement of people back into an area that has been previously abandoned

The largest settlement has a pop of 100,000 &the 2nd largest settlement has 50,000. What is it?

A country’s nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

The Largest Settlement has a pop of 500,000. The 2nd Largest pop is 200,000. What is it?

Central Place Theory is organized in

Rural People

VOCAB: Require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill.

cities with more than 10 million people

VOCAB: contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears.

the local gas station is an example of

The largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second largest settlement.

VOCAB: frequency with which something occurs in space.

upper class city dwellers moved out of the city, beyond the suburbs, to live in high-end housing in the countryside.

the tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city

Hamlets are bigger than Villages

movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts

VOCAB: service industries that connect producers to consumers and facilitate commerce [money]

Which has more services and settlement types?