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12.1 and 12.2 Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The four main types of consumer services include
a)
Education, retail, health, and leisure.
b)
Education, retail, professional, and financial.
c)
Transportation, education, wholesale, and financial.
d)
Health. social, professional, and public.
e)
Wholesale, social, leisure, and information service.
2.
The three types of service sector are
a)
Public, primary, and support.
b)
Public, business, and customer
c)
Business, consumer, and public.
d)
Tertiary, secondary, and secret.
e)
Business, tertiary, and consumer.
3.
Which of the following is NOT primarily a consumer service?
a)
Transportation
b)
Education
c)
Health
d)
Hospitality
e)
Retail and Wholesale
4.
Central place theory predicts larger settlements will be
a)
More numerous and closer together.
b)
More numerous and farther apart.
c)
Less numerous and farther apart.
d)
Less numerous and closer together.
e)
More numerous.
5.
Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in?
a)
Agriculture
b)
Manufacturing
c)
Services
d)
Education
e)
All of the above
6.
The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the?
a)
Range
b)
Hinterland
c)
Median
d)
Threshold
e)
Meridian
7.
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is?
a)
Meridian
b)
Threshold
c)
Hinterland
d)
Range
e)
Median
8.
According to the range concept of Central Place Theory, people should be willing to travel far distances for a(n) ________ and only willing to travel short distances for ________.?
a)
Championship sporting event; a cup of coffee
b)
Flight out of an airport; groceries
c)
Wedding; a fast food restaurant
d)
All of the above
e)
None of the above
9.
According to the gravity model, the potential use of a service at a location is related?
a)
Directly to population and inversely to distance.
b)
Directly to distance and inversely to population.
c)
Directly to both population and distance.
d)
Inversely to both distance and population.
e)
To the presence of other services
10.
Periodic markets feature?
a)
Specialized business services.
b)
Vendors who move to serve more towns.
c)
Large sales after the holiday season.
d)
Prices that change on a seasonal schedule.
11.

The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is?

a)

A circle

b)

A hexagon

c)

A square

d)

A Pentagon

e)

An Octagon

12.

The process of using comparable markets to help geographers predict the market share of a proposed new store is called the?

a)

Analog Method

b)

Gravity Model

c)

Central Place Theory

d)

Hinterland Model

13.

Richard Florida's research identified a relationship between the distribution of?

a)

Central Places

b)

Business and consumer services

c)

Talent and Diversity

d)

Rural and Urban Settlements

14.

What technical development has allowed back office services to relocate to LDCs?

a)

Standard time zones

b)

Telecommunication

c)

Financial market reforms

d)

Effective trademark resources

15.

A ________ is an example of a settlement that specializes in public services?

a)


State Capital

b)

Hospital

c)

Shopping Mall

d)

Reitrement community

16.

A market area is a good example of what kind of region?

a)

Cultural

b)

Formal

c)

Uniform

d)

Diverse

e)

Functional

17.

Why is the absence of a rank-size distribution significant in a country like Romania?

a)

Consumers do not all have access to goods and services.

b)

The capital city Bucharest is a primate city.

c)

Consumers do not have to travel far for goods and services.

d)

Consumers do not have to travel far for goods and services.

e)

Central planning improved settlement distribution.

18.

If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants, how many people live in the fifth largest city?

a)

50,000

b)

100,000

c)

200,000

d)

500,000

e)

5,000,000

19.

The minimum number of people needed to support a service is?

a)

Hinterland

b)

Range

c)

Threshold

d)

Median

e)

Meridian

20.

Most people in the world live in what type of settlement?

a)

Clustered Rural

b)

Dispersed Rural

c)

Urban settlement

d)

Metropolitan

e)

Primordil