chapter 12 test
In the United States educational services account for about ________ percent 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 United States about ________ percent of all jobs are in consumer services.
50
______________ services include educational, retail, wholesale, health and social, leisure, and hospitality jobs.
Consumer
The high urban growth in the developing world suggests considerable industrialization and economic development
FALSE
High natural increase rates contribute to substantial urban growth.
TRUE
Las Vegas, Nevada, Austin, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, are among the fastest growing cities in the developed world
TRUE
Rural to urban migration accounts for a significant increase in urban population in developing countries. ( TRUE OR FALSE )
TRUE
Tokyo, Seoul, and New York City are the only three cities in the developed world in the top 10 of the world's largest cities
TRUE
The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is _________
a hexagon.
The most significant anticipated benefit of the enclosure movement was to promote ____________
agricultural efficiency
Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in what?
agriculture.
Periodic markets are found in both ______________and ______________.
are found in both developing and developed nations in both rural and urban areas.
A primate city is __________-
at least twice as large as the next smaller city.
A firm that sells its products primarily to consumers outside its settlement is a
basic industry
Global cities are defined by the number and type of ____________ found there.
business services
Back-office functions are also called
business-process outsourcing
A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found close together is what kind of settlement?
clustered rural
Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of ____________ , ____________, _____________. and infrastructure factors
economic, political, cultural,
Central Place Theory predicts larger settlements are less numerous and ________.
farther apart.
The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the _______
gravity model.
The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the _____________-
gravity model.
The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the ________
hinterland.
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 _______________and _____________
low wages and the wide use of English.
Higher social heterogeneity in urban settlements means that there are ______________
many different kinds of people in cities
A central place is a ____________
market center.
Clustered rural settlements were most common in which region of colonial America?
new england
LDCs specialize in what two types of global business services ____________and _____________.
offshore financial and back office
A food desert is usually associated with _____________
parts of the country where fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods are unavailable, usually found in impoverished areas.
If a country's largest city has 2,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 400,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution?
primate city
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is ____________
range.
A ________ is an example of a settlement that specializes in public services
state capital
Two major benefits many LDCs offer in terms of global financial services are ______and ________.
tax breaks and privacy.
What technical development has allowed back-office functions to relocate to LDCs?
telecommunications
The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the___________-
threshold.
Is transportation services considered primarily a consumer service?
transportation services is not but ,retail and wholesale services, education services, health services, hospitality services are .
Mesopotamia is considered to be a hearth of urban settlement true or false?
true
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.
