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Chapter 12 Vocabulary

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement?

a)

Central place

b)

Basic industries

c)

Business service

d)

City-state

2.

What are that primarily meet the needs of other businesses?

a)

Basic industries

b)

Consumer services

c)

Business services

d)

Economic base

3.

What is the area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered?

a)

Central Business District (CBD)

b)

Consumer services

c)

Business services

d)

Basic industries

4.

What is a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area?

a)

Clustered rural settlement

b)

Dispersed rural settlement

c)

City-state

d)

Central place

5.

What is the 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)

Central place theory

b)

Enclosure movement

c)

Rank-size rule

d)

Business services

6.

What is a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland?

a)

Clustered rural settlement

b)

Threshold

c)

Consumer services

d)

City-state

7.

What is a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement?

a)

Enclosure movement

b)

Central business district (CBD)

c)

Clustered rural settlement

d)

Consumer services

8.

What are businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services?

a)

Consumer businesses

b)

Central place

c)

Business services

d)

Economic base

9.

What is a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages?

a)

Central place theory

b)

Clustered rural settlement

c)

Business services

d)

Dispersed rural settlements

10.

What is a community's collection of basic industries?

a)

Economic base

b)

Gravity model

c)

Dispersed rural settlement

d)

Consumer services

11.

What is the process of consolidating small landholdings into smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century?

a)

Gravity model

b)

Market area

c)

Enclosure movement

d)

Threshold

12.

What is a model that holds that the potential use of a services at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service?

a)

Gravity model

b)

Rank-size rule

c)

Producer services

d)

Public services

13.

What is the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services?

a)

Public service

b)

Threshold

c)

No basic industries

d)

Hinterland (market area)

14.

What are the industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community?

a)

Enclosure movement

b)

Personal services

c)

Non basic industries

d)

Basic industries

15.

What are the services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers?

a)

Personal services

b)

Consumer services

c)

Public services

d)

Business services

16.

What is the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement?

a)

Primate city rule

b)

Primate city

c)

Rank size rule

d)

Producer services

17.

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

a)

Primate city rule

b)

Rank size rule

c)

Public services

d)

Business services

18.

Which services that primarily help people conduct business?

a)

Consumer services

b)

Producer services

c)

Business services

d)

Public services

19.

Which services are offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses?

a)

Business services

b)

Producer services

c)

Consumer services

d)

Public services

20.

What is the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a services?

a)

Primate city

b)

Market area

c)

Range (of a service)

d)

Threshold

21.

What is a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n of the population of the largest settlement?

a)

Settlement

b)

Retail services

c)

Rank-size rule

d)

Range

22.

What are services that provide goods for sale to consumers?

a)

Consumer services

b)

Public services

c)

Business services

d)

Retail services

23.

What is any type of activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it?

a)

Public services

b)

Service

c)

Producer services

d)

Consumer services

24.

What is a permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants?

a)

Settlement

b)

Threshold

c)

Service

d)

Permanent city

25.

What is the minimum number of people needed to support the service?

a)

Service

b)

Threshold

c)

Range

d)

Public services

26.

What are services that diffuse and distribute services?

a)

Public services

b)

Business services

c)

Primate city

d)

Transportation and Information Services