AP Human Geography Guided Reading Questions Ch 12: Services As you read the chapter, please complete the below guided reading questions. You may submit your responses to me either physically (written on paper) or electronically (typed as a PDF). INTRODUCTION 1. Define service and explain what is meant by the tertiary sector of the economy. 2. Define settlement, and explain the link between services and settlements. ISSUE 1: WHERE ARE SERVICES DISTRIBUTED? 3. Explain the difference between tertiary sector jobs in LDCs v. MDCs in terms or percentage of workforce and percentage of GDP. 4. List and explain the three types of services. 5. Compare primary, secondary and tertiary jobs in terms of growth since 1972 in the US. Go on to explain which types of tertiary jobs have grown and which have not. ISSUE 2: WHERE ARE CONSUMER SERVICES DISTRIBUTED? 6. What does Central Place Theory (CPT) help to do? Who created it and when? 7. What is a central place? According to CPT, what effect does competition between central places have on the landscape? 8. What’s a market area/hinterland? What shape does CPT use to represent them? Why? 9. Define range and threshold and explain how they are used to determine a market area. 10. Briefly explain how a business can determine if a given store location will be profitable. 11. What is the best location within a given market area to actually locate the store? 12. Explain what CPT means by nesting of services and settlements. Diagram it. 13. Explain the rank-­‐size rule and which countries tend to display it. Then explain what a primate city is and which countries tend to have them. 14. What is a periodic market, and where do they occur? ISSUE 3: WHERE ARE BUSINESS SERVICES DISTRIBUTED? 15. Briefly, explain how the distribution of business services differs from that of consumer services. 16. Define world city and explain how the three types of services function in them. 17. Explain the two types of business services LDCs tend to specialize in. 18. Explain the difference between basic and nonbasic industries, then define economic base. 19. Explain the relationship between the two in terms of growth (which stimulates which, and why). 20. Explain how some settlements specialize in terms of basic industries. 21. Explain Richard Florida’s theory on talent. ISSUE 4: WHY DO SERVICES CLUSTER IN SETTLEMENTS? 22. In terms of global population, what % live in rural v. urban settlements? 23. List and define the two primary types of rural settlements. 24. Briefly explain the difference between circular and linear rural settlements. 25. Briefly compare the history of dispersed rural settlements in the US with those in Great Britain. 26. Explain Louis Wirth’s 3-­‐pronged test for differentiating rural settlements from urban settlements. 27. Define urbanization and explain its two dimensions. For each dimension, compare LDCs and MDCs in reference to them. NO MAPPING EXERCISES!!