Ch. 12 AP Human Geography (Services)
settlements
A permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services. Occupy approximately 1% of Earth's surface.
producer services
Provides services primarily to help people conduct other business or enhance productivity. For example: examples are accountants, lawyers and cleaners, manufacturers etc.
retail services
Service that provides goods to sell to consumers. One fifth of the jobs in the United States that provide goods for sale to consumer. One fifth of the jobs are in wholesale, one third in restaurants or food stores, and the rest in shops selling goods. Most of the recent growth in this sector is through the growth of restuarants.
public services
Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses. Only about 4%-10% of US population. Example- Teachers, national park worker.
business services
Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services
personal services
Services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers. Example: Gym membership, health and education related fields.
Pentagon
The largest structure in the U.S. capital is the ______________ - which houses the U.S. Department of Defense. Mirrors the Kremlin in Russia.
consumer services
Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services.
producer service
The number of ______________ ____________ jobs tripled between 1970 and 2000. This mirrored the doubling of total service sector jobs in this same time period
gunpowder
Before the introduction of ________________ in Europe in the 14th century, walls were a very effective defense mechanism(and public service) for thousands of years.
transportation and information services
Businesses that diffuse and distribute services Examples: Trucking, publishing, broadcasting. Approx. 7% of all US jobs fall under this, with the majority of the people in this category being trucker. Fall under broader category of business services.
Services
The regular pattern of settlement observed in MDC's reflects where ________ are provided. Absent in LDC's. Also defined as an activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to people who provided it, clustered in settlements.
religious buildings
Until the invention of skyscrapers in the late 19th century, ________________ ________________ were usually the tallest buildings in a community
