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WorksheetsAP Geography Practice (Chapter 12: Services and Settlements)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is Central Place Theory
A theory explaining the placing of industries in an area
A theory explaining the distribution of services in areasas market centers
A theory explaining the services and their location near trading places
A theory explaining why a large city contains more services than small areas.
Choose the types of services....
Comsumer
Supplier
Business
Public
Financial
How is Central PLace Theory shown
One main aspect of The Recession
Banks giving loans to anyone
Better materials used in houses
Real estate prices fell
New technology gave the services more power
Global cities are divided into what levels
Alpha
Kappa
Gamma
Beta
Sigma
Rank-size distribution can help show wealth in a society
True
False
Periodic Markets can be found in....
Rural China
India
Africa
Spanish-speaking Countries
During the Severe Recession, who was the most impacted areas?
Developing Countries
Countries near the Equator
Developed Countries
Emerging Countries
What is the gravity model?
Predicts the amount of people that would not attend to the service
Predicts the location of a industry near a service
Predicts the location of a service is related to the number of people in an area.
Predicts the prices of materials that a services would have to import in
Factors used to identify global cities
Political
Cultural
Industrial
Economic
Development
Which response is true about cultural factors?
Includes presence of renowned cultural , influential media outlets, and educational institutions
Includes presence of media cultural , clothing outlets, and headquarters for corporations
Labor in Business-Process Outsourcing has been attracted in two ways.
Quality of Life
Low Wages
Ablilty to Speak English
Work Loads in Low Amounts
Nonbasic industries are
industries whose consumers buy the same things
industries whose consumers work in the same area
industries whose consumers live in the same community
industries whose consumers all have the same income
Rural areas are disappeared from each other all the time
True
False
Few people lived in urban settlements until the...
twenith century
nineteenth century
eightteenth centruy
twenith-first century
Urbanization involves 2 dimensions
Increase percent of people living in urban
More business of services than agriculture
Increase size of settlements
Increasing number of people in clusters
Jobs are starting to grow in the service sector and not agriculture
True
False
Early Urban Settlement may have originated in
East Asia
Rome
Mesopotamia
Gurkhas
In 2008, the population of urban to rural areas became 30% to 70%
True
False
Offshore financial services provide 2 important factors.
Income
Taxes
Privacy
Industry
