Exam 12: Services and Settlements
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Central Place Theory predicts larger settlements are
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Which of the following is not primarily a consumer service?
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Among the oldest well-documented urban settlements is Ur in Mesopotamia.
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A community's economic structure depends initially on its basic industries.
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The most prominent structure in the ancient city of Athens was the ________, which still overlooks the city.
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The attraction of the outsourced "offshore banking" industry can best be explained by
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According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a country contains 1,000,000 inhabitants, the fifth largest city should contain 200,000 inhabitants.
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-This map of the percentage of GDP from services indicates that services account for between 60 and 69 percent of GDP in

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One of the most important basic activities in the southern Great Lakes region is
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People who live in rural settlements are more likely to engage in secondary sector economic activities.
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The French long-lot system was developed primarily because of
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Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity?
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The population of the world is roughly split in half between urban and rural settlements.
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As recently as 1800, only 3 percent of Earth's population lived in urban settlements.
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Because of its centrality in an ancient communications network, we still have the old saying "All roads lead to ________."
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The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the
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