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| is any activity that fufills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
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| provide services to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay for them |
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| how many jobs in the united states are in consumer services? |
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| retail, education, health, and lesiure |
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| 4 main types of consumer services |
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| facilities other buisnessesand 1/4 of jobs are in this |
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| provide security and protection for citizens and buisnesses |
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| jobs expanded most rapidly in professional services such as engineering and advertising |
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| the most rapid increase has been in the provision of health care, including hospital staff, clinics, nursing homes, and hoem health care programs |
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| the share of employment in public services has declined during the past two decades |
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| provide consumer services having large thresholds, ranges, and market areas |
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| in which the country's nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlements |
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| the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement |
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| the country's largest city is called the |
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| indicates that the society is sufficietly wealthy to justify the provision of goods and services to consumers throught the country |
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- compute the range
- compute the threshold
- draw the market area |
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| profitability of a location |
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| 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 peopel must travel to access it |
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- define market area
- estimate range
- estimate threshold
- market share |
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| steps for large supermarket |
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| secodn tier of buisness services |
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| command and control centers |
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| third tier of buisness services |
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| specialized producer-service centers |
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| fourth tier of buisness services |
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| offshore finacial services |
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| reason why developign countries have back offices |
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- low wages
- ability to speak english |
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| exports primarily to buisnesses and individuals outside the settlement |
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| are enterprises whsoe customers live in the same community |
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| a community's unique collection of basic industries defines its |
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| are centers for agriculture and provide a small number of services |
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| are centers for consumer and buisness services |
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| typical of the contemporary noth american rural landscape is characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers in settlements |
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| dispersed rural settlement |
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| an agricultural based community in which a number of families live in clase proximity to each other with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings |
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| clustered rural settlement |
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| feature buildings clustered along a raod or body of water to facilitate transportation and communications |
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| consists of a central open space surrounded by structures |
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| circular rural settlements |
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| ealier settlements may have been established as service centers: |
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consumer services
buisness services
publci services |
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| distinctive area of mostr cities is the central area or downtown |
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| central buisness district |
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| are centrally located tofacilitate rapid communication of fast breaking news |
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- contain consumer services such as markets, bakeries, and butchers
- are less dominated by business service than U.S. |
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| european central buisness ditricts |
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| wealthy peopel cluster int hese areas |
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- pre-european clonization
- european colonial period
- postcolonial independance |
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| city defines an urban settlement that has been legally inorporated in an independent self governing unit |
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| the central city and the sourrounding built-up suburbs are called an |
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| has created a method of measuring the funcitional area of a city |
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| metropolitan statistical area |
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- an urbanized areas of at least 50,000 inhabitants
- the country within which the city is located
- adjacent countries with a high population density |
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| metropolitan statistical area |
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| desginated smaller urban areas |
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| micropolitan statistical areas |
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| core based statistical area |
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| combined statistical area |
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| primary census statistical area |
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| process of legally adding land area to a city |
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| is the process by which middleclass people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing |
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- inadequate job skills
- culture of poverty
- crime
- drugs
- homeless
- lack of services
- deteriorated housing |
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| an urbane area consists of an inner city sourrounded by large suburban residential and buisness areas tied together by a beltway or ring road |
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| originated as subarban residences for people who worked in the central city, and then shopping malls were built to be near the residents |
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| is a substance in the environment that is useful to people is economically and technological feasible to access and is socially acceptable to use |
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| is a residue of plants and animals that were buried millions of years ago |
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| supplanted wood as the leading energy source in developed countries |
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| first plumped in 1859 but not an important |
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| originally burned off as a waste product of oil drilling but now used to heat homes |
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is power supplied by animals or by people themselves
biofuel |
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| energy si consumed because |
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- homes
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- transportation |
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| the amoutn of energy remaining in deposits that have been discovered |
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| the engergy in deposits that are undiscovered but thought to exist is a |
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| is a concentration of trace substance as a greater level than occurs in average air |
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| air pollution may damage a regions vegetation and water suply through |
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| dissolved in water the acids may fall as |
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