Geography Ch. 12 Study Guide

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

• a kickback.

• a service

• a transaction

• an activity.

• a favor.

Services generate more than ________ of GDP in most developed countries, compared to less than ________ in most developing countries.

• three quarters; half

• half; two-thirds

• two-thirds; three -quarters

• two- thirds; half

• three -quarters; two-thirds

In the U.S., the financial sector provides about ________ percent of all jobs.

• 14

• 42

• 23

• 30

• 6

About ________ percent of all U.S. jobs are in the public sector, ________ percent of public school employees were excluded from the total and counted instead under education (consumer) services.

• 45; 30

• 8; 4

• 16; 9

• 25; 13

• 10; 7

The ________ sector is responsible for the majority of the GDP for most developed countries.

• manufacturing

• public

• business

• consumer

• service

________ explains how services are distributed and why a regular pattern of settlements exists, at least in developed countries such as the United States.

• The Concentric model

• The distance tolerance model

• Central place theory

• The Von Thünen model

• The sector model

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

• hierarchy

• law of equidistance

• threshold

• range

• distance

The ________ is the minimum number of people needed to support the service.

• range

• threshold

• hierarchy

• law of equidistance

• distance

Geographers use ________ to represent market areas because of their geometric properties compared with those of circles and squares.

• pentagons

• heptagon

• hexagons

• triangles

• octagons

________ helps explain how the most profitable location can be identified for consumer services.

• Market area

• Threshold theory

• The range

• Central place theory

• Type of service