AP Human Geography Chapter 12

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%

The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is

A hexagon

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

Agriculture

Periodic markets

Are found in both developing and developed nations in both rural and urban areas

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

Band secrecy laws and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the

Hinterland

Central Place Theory predicts larger settlements are

Less numerous and farther apart

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

A central place is a

Market Center

Which of the following is NOT true about periodic markets around the globe?

Muslim markets operate everyday of the week

LDCs specialize in what two types of global business services?

Offshore financial and back office

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 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

Tax breaks and privacy

Global cities are defined by

The number and type of business services found there

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

Threshold

Which of the following is NOT primarily a consumer service?

Transportation Services

A primate city is

at least twice as large as the next smaller city

Back-office functions are also called

business process outsourcing

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

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

gravity model

What factors determine where back office services will locate in LDCs?

low wage rates and workers who can speak English

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

The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the

rank-size distribution

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

telecommunications

Periodic markets are likely to feature

vendors who move from town to town

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of

Economic, political, cultural, and infrastructure factors

Consumer services include

Educational, Retail, Wholesale, health, and social, leisure, and hospitality jobs