Chapter 12 Services

  Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses               

• Business Services
• Public Services
• Services
• Consumer Services

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

• Threshold
• Settlement
• Range
• Service

Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.

• rank-size rule
• economic industries
• basic industries
• nonbasic industries

Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services.

• Public Services
• Service
• Business Services
• Consumer Services

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

• City-State
• Threshold
• Range
• Service

A community's collection of basic industries.

• Nobasic industries
• Central Place
• Economic Base
• Service

A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement

• Rank Size Rule
• Primate City
• Primate City Rule
• Gravity Model

Businesses clustered at the center of the city, commonly called downtown.

• Central Place Theory
• Central Business District
• Central Place
• Economic Base

The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

• Service
• Primate City
• Primate City Rule
• City State

A pattern of settlement in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

• Service
• Rank Size Rule
• Range
• Enclosure Movement