Exam 12: Services and Settlements

In the global economy, developed countries specialize in two distinctive types of business services: offshore financial services and back-office functions.

Define and discuss the range of a service, providing some original examples (i.e., examples NOT copied directly out of the textbook) to illustrate your points.

A clustered rural settlement typically includes homes, barns, tool sheds, and other farm structures, plus consumer services, such as religious structures, schools, and shops.

The Caymans have only ________ inhabitants, but there are ________ companies located there (on paper), including several hundred banks and the world's four largest legal and accounting firms.

Companies incorporated in an offshore center tend to have tax-free status regardless of the nationality of the owners.

Services generate more than two-thirds of GDP in most ________, compared to less than half in most ________.

Which of the following is most relevant to the concept of threshold?

Define and discuss off-shore financial services, giving examples of their activities and the effects they have on national tax collection.

Until around 300 B.C., the world's largest settlements were in ________.

The ________ consists of a central open space surrounded by structures.

What are the characteristics of a clustered rural settlement?

The service sector of the economy is subdivided into four types: consumer services, business services, academic services, and private services.

The ________ is the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

Headquarters of large corporations are clustered in world cities, and shares of these corporations are bought and sold on the stock exchanges located in world cities.

Attracting talented individuals is important for a city, in part because these individuals are:

Figure 12.7.1, Economic Base of U.S. Cities -________ are enterprises whose customers live in the same community; they are essentially consumer services.

In the Caymans, it is a crime to discuss confidential business (defined as matters learned on the job) in public.

Geographers typically predict the market share of a new store through the so-called ________.

A ________, seen in the contemporary North American rural landscape, is characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors, rather than alongside other farmers in settlements.

Geographers use ________ to represent market areas because of their geometric properties, compared with those of circles and squares.