APHG Ch. 12

25) In the United States educational services account for about ________ of jobs. A) 10 percent B) 2 percent C) 1 percent D) 35 percent E) 25 percent

A) 10 percent

23) In the United States about ________ of all jobs are in consumer services. A) 50 percent B) 10 percent C) 5 percent D) 75 percent E) 25 percent

A) 50 percent

21) Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in A) agriculture. B) manufacturing. C) services. D) education. E) cities.

A) agriculture.

24) Consumer services include A) educational, retail, wholesale, social, leisure, and hospitality jobs. B) educational, retail, wholesale, professional, and financial service jobs. C) educational, retail, wholesale, and financial service jobs. D) health and social, professional, and financial service jobs. E) wholesale, social, leisure, and information service jobs.

A) educational, retail, wholesale, social, leisure, and hospitality jobs.

37) The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the A) gravity model. B) population model. C) distance decay. D) gravitational model. E) threshold model.

A) gravity model.

28) The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the A) hinterland. B) range. C) threshold. D) median. E) meridian

A) hinterland.

27) Which of the following is not primarily a consumer service? A) transportation services B) retail and wholesale services C) education services D) health services E) hospitality services

A) transportation services

38) Periodic markets are likely to feature A) vendors who move from town to town. B) prices that change on a seasonal schedule. C) large sales after the holiday season. D) a daily offering of business services throughout the year. E) consumer goods that change periodically in the central business district.

A) vendors who move from town to town.

33) A primate city is A) a city with political, economic, and cultural functions. B) at least twice as large as the next smaller city. C) the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese. D) a rapidly growing city. E) the center of gravity for a hinterland.

B) at least twice as large as the next smaller city.

30) A central place is a A) hinterland. B) market center. C) range of a good. D) rank-size distribution. E) hexagonal settlement

B) market center.

29) The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is A) hinterland. B) range. C) threshold. D) median. E) meridian

B) range.

34) 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? A) 50,000 B) 100,000 C) 200,000 D) 500,000 E) 5,000,000

C) 200,000

36) The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is A) directly related to the number of people and services in the area and inversely related to the lengths of highways and railways that access it. B) directly related to the range in the area and inversely related to the hinterland. C) directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it. D) directly related to the median of people in the area and inversely related to the meridian of people who travel to access it. E) directly related to the distance people must travel and inversely related to the number of people in the area.

C) directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.

39) Central Place Theory predicts larger settlements are A) more numerous and closer together. B) more numerous and farther apart. C) less numerous and farther apart. D) less numerous and closer together. E) more numerous.

C) less numerous and farther apart.

31) 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? A) central place B) economic base C) primate city D) rank-size E) equidistant

C) primate city

35) The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the A) hinterland. B) range. C) threshold. D) median. E) meridian.

C) threshold

26) Most people in the world live in what type of settlement? A) clustered rural B) dispersed rural C) urban settlement D) agricultural E) primordial

C) urban settlement

22) A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found close together is what kind of settlement? A) urban B) linear rural C) dispersed rural D) clustered rural E) primordial

D) clustered rural

40) In a linear community, we can deduce that the best location for a service is the A) hinterland. B) range. C) threshold. D) median. E) meridian.

D) median.

32) The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the A) primate city. B) economic base. C) gravity model. D) rank-size rule. E) nesting of settlements.

D) rank-size rule.