AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY CH 12- Services and Settlements

The city-state is an example of

A state dominated by its major city

Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents or urban settlements to work in

Agriculture

A primate city is

At least twice as large as the next smaller city

The attraction of the outsourced "offshore banking" industry can best be explained by

Bank secrecy laws and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries.

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is

Hinterland

A central place is a

Market center

Urbanization can be analyzed by looking at the increase in the ____ of people living in cities

Number and percentages

LDCS specialize in what two types of global business services

Offshore financial and back office

World cities are defined by

The number and type of business services found there

The most prominent structure in ancient city of Ur was the stepped temple called _______, which was built about 4,000 years ago

Ziggurat

In the US educational services account for about ______ of jobs

10%

If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants, how many people live in the fifth largest city

200,000

In the US about ______ of all jobs are in consumer services

50%

The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is

A hexagon

A firm that sells it's products primarily to consumers outside it's settlement is a

Basic industry

Back-office functions are also called

Business-process outsourcing

An analysis of this map of global cities indicates that

Chicago is an alpha-ranked world city

A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found is close together is what kind of settlement

Clustered rural

The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is

Directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it

Urban residents are generally more tolerant of ____ than the residents of rural communities, but residents of urban settlements often feel that they are surrounded by people who are indifferent and reserved

Diverse social behavior

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of

Economic, political, cultural, and infrastructure factors

Consumers services include

Educational, retail, wholesale, social, leisure, and hospitality jobs

The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the

Gravity model

Central Place Theory predicts larger settlements are

Less numerous and farther apart

What factors determine where back office services will locate in LDCs

Low wage rates and workers who can speak English

The attraction of the outsourced "call center" industry to locate in India can best be explained by

Low wages and the wide use of English

One of the most important basic activities in the southern Great Lakes region is

Manufacturing of durable goods

This map of offshore financial centers indicates that

Many are concentrated in the eastern Caribbean

In a linear community, we can deduce that the best location for a service is the

Median

Which of the following is considered to be a hearth of urban settlement

Mesopotamia

The French long-lot system was developed primarily because of

Need for access to a river

Clustered rural settlements were most common in which region of colonial America

New England

The most prominent structure in the ancient city of Athens was the ____, which still looks over the city

Parthenon

Typical medieval European urban settlements were characterized by the

Placement of buildings around a central market place

If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution

Primate city

The most significant impact thay Great Britain's enclosure movement made on the rural landscape was to

Produce more of a dispersed rural settlement pattern

The most significant anticipated benefit of the enclosure movement was to

Promote agricultural efficiency

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is

Range

The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the

Rank-size rule

The fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. brought about what change in urban settlements

Reduction in urban populations

Because of its centrality in an ancient communications network, we still have the old saying "All roads lead to ____"

Rome

A ______ is an example of a settlement that specializes in public services

State capital

Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity

Steel mill

Attracting a new basic industry is important to a community, primarily because it

Stimulates new nonbasic industries

Richard Florida's research identified a relationship between the distribution of

Talent and diversity

Two major benefits many LDCS offer in terms of global financial services are

Tax breaks and privacy

What technical development has allowed back-office functions to relocate to LDCs

Telecommunications

Which statement best describes the relationship between urbanization and the Industrial Revolution in Europe

The Industrial Revolution ultimately promoted urbanization

Higher social heterogeneity in urban settlements means that

There are many different types of people in cities

The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the

Threshold

The map of early urban settlements indication that by 1 A.D.

Tokyo was one of the largest cities in the world

Which of the following is not primarily a consumer service

Transportation services

Heterogeneity is more a characteristic of

Urban centers than rural communities

Most people in the world live in what type of settlement

Urban settlement

Periodic markets are likely to feature

Vendors who move from town to town