Exam 12: Services and Settlements

According to market area analysis, range and threshold are the two least important factors in deciding on the probable profitability of a business.

Compare the overall percentages of the population living in urban areas, in developed countries versus developing countries.

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the threshold or the rank-size.

Using the rank-size rule, a country's fourth largest city is expected to be about ________ the size of the largest city.

Developed countries have a higher percentage of urban residents, but developing countries have more of the very large urban settlements.

Generally, cities with high cultural diversity tended to have relatively high percentages of talented individuals.

The process by which the population of urban settlements grows is known as migration.

Originally called Byzantium and now known as Istanbul, ________ became the world's largest settlement after the decline of Rome, and it remained the largest settlement for most of the next 1,000 years.

A ________ is an agricultural-based community in which a number of families live in close proximity to one other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings.

Permanent settlements existed prior to the beginning of recorded history around ________ years ago.

An activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it is known as:

World cities are most closely integrated into the global economic system because they are:

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 clustered linear rural settlement consists of a central open space surrounded by structures.

According to the primate city rule, the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranked settlement.

Generally, small settlements provide services with large thresholds, ranges, and market areas whereas large settlements provide services with small thresholds, ranges, and market areas.

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 the manufacturing of durable goods in the U.S.?

Which of the following cities has a population of less than 20 million according to Demographia (but not necessarily according to other sources)?

Geographers apply ________ to create market-area studies that assist service providers with opening and expanding their facilities.