AP Human Geography-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

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

• Public Services
• Service
• Business Services
• Consumer Services

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

A community's collection of basic industries.

• Nobasic industries
• Central Place
• Economic Base
• Service

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

The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century.

• Rank Size Rule
•  Enclosure movement
• Clustered Rural Settlement
• Gravity Model

A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants

• Settlement
• Service
• Threshold
• Range

 The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.A. B

• Threshold
• Market Area 
• Clustered rural settlement
• Rank size rule