1. Services and Settlements
Clicker Questions
Chapter 12
Services and Settlements
Tim Scharks Green River College

2. Growth in U.S. employment since 1975 has occurred in all of these industries except
government services.
professional services.
agriculture and mining.
health and education.
information services.
Answer: C
Key Issue 1. Where Are Services Distributed?
Learning Outcome : Describe the three types of services.

3. Another name for a service’s hinterland is
market area.
range.
threshold.
central place.
daily urban system.
Answer: A
Key Issue 2. Where Are Consumer Services Distributed?
Learning Outcome : Explain the concepts of market area, range, and threshold.

4. When geographers describe nesting services and settlements, they mean that
a primate city is several times larger than the next largest city.
some settlements have many more services than other settlements of similar size.
the rank-size rule is always followed.
small market areas for small towns are inside the market areas of larger towns, and so on in a regular pattern.
services only occur in settlements.
Answer: D
Key Issue 2. Where Are Consumer Services Distributed?
Learning Outcome : Explain the distribution of different-sized settlements.

5. The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is
not related to the number of potential customers.
directly related to the number of people in an area.
directly related to the distance people must travel to access it.
one that maximizes the distances all potential customers must travel.
on the far outskirts of a settlement.
Answer: B
Key Issue 2. Where Are Consumer Services Distributed?
Learning Outcome : Explain how to use threshold and range to find the optimal location for a service.

6. Periodic markets are
services like churches that only open one or two days a week.
on vehicles like ice cream trucks or food trucks.
seasonal markets that open only in spring and summer.
markets that sell pure elements from the periodic table.
markets that occur in very small settlements on certain days of the week.
Answer: E
Key Issue 2. Where Are Consumer Services Distributed?
Learning Outcome : Describe the concept of periodic markets in developing countries.

7. Which of the following is least important to ranking a city high in the hierarchy of global cities?
economic factors
total population of the city
transportation
political factors
business service concentrations
Answer: B
Key Issue 3. Where Are Business Services Distributed?
Learning Outcome : Describe the factors that are used to identify global cities.

8. Business-process services are outsourced to selected developing countries because
taxes on income are low or nonexistent.
those countries have bank secrecy laws that protect individuals and businesses.
most of them are small or microstates and have few other comparative advantages.
they have a labor force fluent in English.
those countries have high wages.
Answer: D
Key Issue 3. Where Are Business Services Distributed?
Learning Outcome : Describe two types of business services in developing countries.

9. A basic business is one that
sells pumpkin spice-flavored coffee.
exports mostly to customers outside the settlement.
serves customers living in the same settlement.
has a higher than expected distribution of talent.
has a low “coolness” index.
Answer: B
Key Issue 3. Where Are Business Services Distributed?
Learning Outcome : Explain the concept of economic base.

10. Rural settlements may be clustered or dispersed.
are clustered only in North America.
have large numbers of services.
are centers for consumer and business services.
are always circular.
Answer: A
Key Issue 4. Why Do Services Cluster in Settlements?
Learning Outcome : Describe the difference between clustered and dispersed rural settlements.

11. Which of the following was likely an early service in prehistoric urban settlements?
fire fighting
transportation services
business services for tax accounting
services for burying the dead
information services
Answer: D
Key Issue 4. Why Do Services Cluster in Settlements?
Learning Outcome : Identify important prehistoric, ancient, and medieval urban settlements.

12. Urbanization can be measured as an increase in the percentage of people living in cities or as
migration between countries due to economic factors.
an increase in the number of people living in urban settlements.
increasing social heterogeneity.
the number of new services added each year.
increased density in the core of a settlement.
Answer: B
Key Issue 4. Why Do Services Cluster in Settlements?
Learning Outcome : Explain the two dimensions of urbanization.

13. Which of the following is correct?
There are more large urban settlements in developing countries than developed countries.
Most of the fastest-growing urban settlements are in developed countries.
Developing countries are the most urban when measured as a percentage.
Urbanization is decreasing around the world.
Developed countries have more large urban settlements than developing countries.
Answer: A
Key Issue 4. Why Do Services Cluster in Settlements?
Learning Outcome : Describe the location of the fastest-growing cities.