Exam 12: Services and Settlements

This helps to explain the distribution of settlements of varying sizes in North Dakota. Larger settlements are fewer and farther apart, whereas smaller settlements are more frequent and closer together.

________ is one way to explain how services are distributed and why a regular pattern of settlements exists, at least in developed countries such as the United States.

Generally, if the settlement hierarchy does not graph as a straight line, then the society does not have:

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

The percentage of people living in cities increased from 3 percent in 1800 to about ________ percent in 1950.

In the U.S., manufacturing centers are generally clustered in the:

Define service and briefly discuss the three different types of services.

Two-fifths of people live in urban settlements in developing countries, compared to about three-fourths in developed countries.

In his original study, Walter Christaller showed that the distances between settlements in southern Germany followed an irregular pattern that was difficult to predict.

The world's population of urban settlements exceeded that of rural settlements for the first time in ________.

Below the first tier of world cities, the textbook describes five other tiers of settlements, ranked according to the type and extent of their business services.

Briefly discuss clustered circular rural settlements.

Central place theory explains the distribution of services and why a regular pattern of settlements exist, at least in developed countries such as the United States.

Mexico follows the primate city distribution because its largest city, Mexico City, is five times larger than its second largest city, Guadalajara.

Figure 12.7.1, Economic Base of U.S. Cities -According to Figure 12.7.1, in which of the following regions are you most likely to find manufacturing of nondurable goods in the U.S.?

Every settlement provides consumer services to people in a surrounding area, but not every settlement of a given size has the same number and types of business services.

Which of the following do developing countries specialize in?

According to the primate city rule, the largest settlement has:

The first step in forecasting sales for a proposed new retail outlet is to define the market or trade area where the store would derive most of its sales.

The first permanent settlements may have been places for nomads to bury and honor their dead.