AP Human Geo: Chapter 12 Vocab

What are Basic Industries?

• Industries that use no modern technology when manufacturing thier products.

• Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.

• Industries whose major products are necessities for life.

• Industries that encompasses the primary, secondary, and tertiary job sectors.

What are Business Services?

• Services that meet the professional, financial, and transportation needs of citizens.

• Any business that deals in professional, financial, and transportation needs.

• Businesses that control the advertising of another business.

• Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services.

What is Central Place?

• A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.

• The largest market center for the exchange of services in a country.

• The largest settlement in a country.

• The best area for a business to be located.

What is the Central Place Theory?

• 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 and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.

• A theory that explains why businesses are located where they are.

• A theory that explains why businesses are successful or not.

• A theory that is used by businesses to explain the best location for their second location.

What is a City-state?

• A country that is the size of a city.

• A city that is run by it’s own government, but that is a small part of the larger country’s government.

• A sovereign state compromising a city and its immediate hinterland.

• The capital of a country.

What is a Clustered Rural Settlement?

• A country where all of the rural settlements are clustered together.

• Another way of saying dispersed rural settlement.

• A rural settlement that has all of it’s businesses in one area.

• A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other, with fields surrounding the settlement.

What are Consumer Services?

• Businesses that provide services to all citizens, including public schools.

• Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail service services and education, health, and leisure services.

• Businesses that are run by individuals and not big corporations.

• Businesses that are non-profit businesses.

What is a Dispersed Rural Settlement?

• A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.

• A rural settlement that has very few service businesses.

• Another name for a clustered rural settlement.

• A rural settlement pattern characterized by service businesses dispersed throughout it.

What is an Economic Base?

• The industry that has the highest profits.

• A community’s collection of fast food restaurants.

• A community’s collection of profitable businesses.

• A community’s collection of basic industries.

What is the Enclosure Movement?

• The process of reducing the enclosure of cattle.

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

• The process of breaking up larger farms into smaller farms in England during the eighteenth century.

• The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in America during the seventeenth century.