| A | B |
|---|
| service | activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
| settlement | permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services |
| consumer service | individual consumers are provided services they desire and can afford |
| business service | facilitates other businesses |
| public service | provides security and protection for all citizens and businesses |
| city-state | indpendent self-governing community that includes the settlement and nearby countryside |
| clustered rural settlement | families live in close proximity to each other with fields surrounding the houses |
| disersed rural settlement | individual farms are isolated from neighbors |
| hamlet | village |
| enclosure movement | consolitdation of individually owned strips of land surrounding a village into a single large farm |
| urbanization | process where population of urban settlements grows |
| central place | market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
| market area/hinterland | area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted |
| range | maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
| threshold | minimum number of people needed to support a service |
| gravity model | predicts the optimal location of a service |
| rank-size rule | nth largest settlement is 1/n the size of the largest |
| primate city rule | largest settlement is more than twice the size of the second largest |
| periodic market | collection of individual vendors who come together to offer goods and services in a location on specified days |
| world city | center for the provision of services in the global economy |
| basic industry | exports primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
| nonbasic industry | customers live in the same community |
| economic base | community's collection of basic industries |
