12.2: Why Are consumer Services Distributed
in a Regular Pattern? [406-412]
Name: _________________________________________
1.
Discuss Walter Christaller's central place theory.
1.
2.
Define the following:
a. Market area:
2a.
b.
Range:
2b.
c.
Threshold:
2c.
3.
How would the profitability of a location be
determined?
3.
4.
How is the best location in a linear settlement
determined?
4.
5.
How is the best location in a nonlinear settlement
determined?
5.
6.
Explain the nesting pattern of services and
settlements.
6.
7.
Compare the rank-size rule to the primate city rule.
Trucks
7.
8.
What is a periodic market? Provide an example.
8.
12.3: Why Do Business Services Locate in
Large Settlements? [412-420]
1.
Name the four possible hearths of urban settlements
(name, location and date).
Name:
1a.
1b.
1c.
1d.
2.
Discuss the importance of Athens as a city-state.
2.
3.
Discuss the impact of the Roman Empire on urban
settlements.
3.
4.
Discuss the rebirth of urban life in the eleventh
century.
4.
5.
Where were most of the world's largest cities from
A.D. 476 to the late 1700s?
5.
6.
Describe why business services are clustered in
modern world cities.
6.
7.
Describe why consumer services are clustered in
modern world cities.
7.
8.
Describe why public services are clustered in modern
world cities.
8.
9.
List and describe the four levels of cities that play a
major role in the global economy.
9a.
9b.
9c.
9d.
10. Explain the difference between basic and non-basic
industries.
10.