Unit Seven: Services & Settlements
Chapter 12: Introduction P.430
1. Identify the following:
a. Service
b. Settlement
2. Why is it both easy and difficult to determine the optimal location for a service?
Key Issue 1: Where Are Services Distributed? (p.431)
3. Identify & describe the three types of consumer services.
a.
b.
c.
4. Identify & describe the 3 types of business services.
a.
b.
c.
5. Define Public services
6. Point out three changes in the pattern of employment in the U.S. between 1972 and 2010. Use
Figure 12-6. Use 1 change per type of service.
6a.
6b.
6c.
7. Identify & explain two practices that contributed to the recession in 2008.
7a.
7b.
Key Issue 2: Where Are Consumer Services Distributed?
(p.434)
9. What does Walter Christaller’s central place theory explain?
10. Define the following
a. Market Area
b. Range
c. Threshold
11. How would the profitability of a location be determined?
12. How is the best location in a linear settlement determined?
13. How is the best location in a nonlinear settlement determined?
14. Explain the nesting pattern of services and settlements.
15. Contrast the rank-size rule to the primate city rule.
Key Issue 3: Where are Business Services Distributed? P. 442
16. Describe a global city
17. Describe the factors that are used to identify global cities.
a.
b.
c.
d.
18. Explain the two types of business services in developing countries.
19. Define the following:
19a. Basic Industry
19b. non-basic industry
19.c economic base
20. Identify 3 examples of settlements that specialize in particular types of business services
a.
b.
c.
21. Identify 2 examples of settlements specializing in consumer services
a.
b.
22. Identify 3 examples of settlements specializing in public services.
a.
b.
12.
Key Issue 4: Why Do Services Cluster in Settlements (448)
23. Define clustered rural settlement
24. Define dispersed rural settlement
25. Briefly describe the difference between historical clustered settlements in Colonial America &
more modern ones in New England.
26. Identify the differences between dispersed rural settlements in the US & UK
27.Summarize the development of urban settlements form the earliest through medieval times.
28. Explain the 2 dimensions of urbanization.