AP Human Geography – Mr. Horas
Unit Five: Economic Development
Chapter 12: Services
(Pages 408 – 441)
Introduction (409)
1. Identify the following:
a. Service:
a.
b. Settlement:
b.
2. Why is it both easy and difficult at the
same time to determine the optimal
location for a service?
2.
Key Issue #1: Where Did Services
Originate? (409)
3. Compare the employment of workers
in the tertiary sector of the economy in
MDCs to that in LDCs.
3.
4. List and identify the three subdivisions
of the service sector of the economy.
4.a._________________________:
b._________________________:
c._________________________:
5. Discuss the changing pattern of
employment in the U.S. between
1960 and 1995.
5.
6. Discuss the origin of services involving
the following:
a. Early Personal services:
a.
b. Early Public services:
b.
c. Origin of Other Services
c.
7. Describe the following types of clustered
rural settlements.
a. Circular Rural Settlements:
a.
b. Linear Rural Settlements:
b.
8. Describe Dispersed Rural Settlements.
8.
Key Issue #2: Why Are consumer Services
Distributed In A Regular Pattern? (417)
1. Discuss Walter Christaller's central
place theory.
1.
2. Define the following:
a. Market Area:
a.
b. Range:
b.
c. Threshold:
c.
3. How would the profitability of
a location be determined?
3.
4. How is the best location in a
linear settlement determined?
4.
5. How is the best location in a
nonlinear settlement determined?
5.
6. Explain the nesting pattern of
services and settlements.
6.
7. Compare the rank-size rule to the
primate city rule.
7.
Key Issue #3: Why do Business Services
Locate in Large Settlements? (423)
1. Name the four possible hearths of
urban settlements.
1.a.
b.
c.
d.
2. Discuss the importance of Athens
as a city-state.
2.
3. Discuss the impact of the Roman
Empire on urban settlements.
3.
4. Discuss the rebirth of urban life
in the eleventh century.
4.
5. From A.D. 476 to the late 1700s
where were most of the world's
largest cities.
5.
6. Describe why business services are
clustered in modern world cities.
6.
7. Describe why consumer services are
clustered in modern world cities.
7.
8. Describe why public services are
clustered in modern world cities.
8.
9. List and describe the four levels
of cities that play a major role in
the global economy.
9.a.____________________________:
b.____________________________:
c.____________________________:
d.____________________________:
10. Explain the difference between
basic and nonbasic industries.
10.
11. Discuss the focus of the study by
O hUallachain & Reid.
11.
Key Issue #4: Why do Services Cluster
Downtown? (432)
1. List and describe three types of retail
services that concentrate in the CBD.
1.a._____________________________:
b._____________________________:
c._____________________________:
2. Describe the impact of high land
costs in the CBD.
2.
3. Describe the types of activities
excluded from the CBD.
3.
4. Compare and contrast European CBDs
to American CBDs.
4.
5. Discuss the suburbanization of retailing.
5.
6. Discuss the suburbanization of factories
and other offices.
6.