| A | B |
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| basic industries | industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside teh settlement |
| business services | services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses |
| central business district (CBD) | the area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered |
| central place | a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
| central place theory | a 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. |
| city-state | a soverign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
| clustered rural settlement | a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement |
| consumer services | businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services |
| dispersed rural settlement | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
| economic base | a community's collection of basic industries |
| enclosure movement | the process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th cent |
| gravity model | a model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of ppl in a location and inversely related to teh distance people must travel to reach the service |
| market area (or hinterland) | the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the palce's goods and services |
| nonbasic industries | industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community |
| personal services | services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers |
| primate city | the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many ppl as the second-ranking settlement |
| primate city rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many ppl as the second-ranking settlement |
| producer services | services that primarily help ppl conduct business |
| public services | services offered by the gov't to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
| range (of a service) | the maximum distance ppl are willing to travel to use a services |
| rank-size rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
| retail services | services that provide goods for sale to consumers |
| service | any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
| settlement | a permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants |
| threshold | the minimum number of ppl needed to support the service |
| transportation and information services | services that diffuse and distribute services |
