Multiple Choice Questions

Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services.
  • basic industries
  • service
  • consumer services
  • business services
A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement.
  • dispersed rural settlement
  • central place
  • clustered rural settlement
  • consumer services
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
  • range
  • threshold
  • service
  • market area
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
  • primate city rule
  • consumer services
  • central place
  • dispersed rural settlement
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.
  • rank size rule
  • gravity model
  • primate city rule
  • central place theory
The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.
  • central place
  • market area
  • threshold
  • range
A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.
  • gravity model
  • economic base
  • primate city
  • rank size rule
A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
  • central place
  • market area
  • primate city
  • economic base
Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses
  • basic industries
  • business services
  • public service
  • consumer services
A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
  • enclosure movement
  • central place theory
  • range
  • primate city rule
Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services
  • business services
  • basic industries
  • consumer services
  • service
A soverign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland
  • primate city rule
  • central business district
  • primate city
  • city state
The minimum number of people needed to support the service
  • threshold
  • market area
  • settlement
  • range
The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
  • primate city
  • central place
  • gravity model
  • economic base
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
  • basic industries
  • business services
  • nonbasic industries
  • consumer services
any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it
  • service
  • range
  • central place
  • public service
The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered.
  • central business district
  • primate city
  • economic base
  • central place
Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.
  • business services
  • basic industries
  • nonbasic industries
  • consumer services
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