AP Human Geography Unit Test 12

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

200,000

Consumer services account for which percent of jobs in the United States?

50

Educational services account for about which percent of jobs in the United States?

9

A primate city is defined as

At least twice as large as the next smaller city

The three types of services are

Business, consumer, and public

Which is NOT a business service?

Clerical

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 four main types of consumer services include

Education, retail, health, and leisure

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

Gravity model

The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas are

Hexagons

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

Hinterland

Which factors would geographers use to determine the marketability of a location?

Market area, range, threshold, age of residents, and location

A central place is defined as a

Market center for exchange of goods and services

If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants which distribution does the country follow?

Primate city

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

Range

The hierarchal listing of settlements by size is known as the

Rank-size rule

Use Figure 12-1 to answer the question. In which countries do services account for between 50 and 69 percent of GDP?

South Africa, Namibia, and Australia

Which of the following would planners NOT consider when determining the extent of the market area for a new chicken wings restaurant

The availability of parking within the threshold of the restaurant

Use Figure 12-2 to answer the question. The graph represents both social and economic change in the United States between 1975 and 2015. Which sector and sub-sectors have grown the most significantly?

The tertiary sector with increases in leisure, health, and retail services.

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