Exam 12: Services and Settlements

The text indicates that the United States loses $150 billion each year in tax revenue due to companies choosing to incorporate in offshore centers that allows them to conceal their asset.Has the United States government taken any actions to hamper this practice? What would you recommend?

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

What is the market area of a service and why is that important?

The rank-size rule states that a countries nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.Why does Mexico deviate from this rule?

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

Which of the following cities has a population of less than 20 million?

About ________ percent of all U.S.jobs are in the public sector,________ percent of public school employees were excluded from the total and counted instead under education (consumer)services.

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

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

Geographers can estimate the ________ by using the ZIP codes of credit-card customers.

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

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

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

Compare the world's most populous cities to the most important business service centers.

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

________ cities are most closely integrated into the global economic system because they are at the center of the flow of ________ and ________.

________ feature buildings clustered along a road or body of water to facilitate communications.

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

How does the concept of threshold help a business to decide on the right location?

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