AP Human Geography Chapter 12

A permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services

Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services

Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services

Services offered by the government to provide security for citizens and businesses

A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement

A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages

The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century

A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area

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

The minimum number of people needed to support a service

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted

Another name for a market area

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service

A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people must travel to reach the service

A pattern of settlements in a country, such as the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement