12.1 and 12.2 Quiz

The four main types of consumer services include

• Education, retail, health, and leisure.
• Education, retail, professional, and financial.
• Transportation, education, wholesale, and financial.
• Health. social, professional, and public.
• Wholesale, social, leisure, and information service.

The three types of service sector are

• Public, primary, and support.
• Public, business, and customer
• Business, consumer, and public.
• Tertiary, secondary, and secret.
• Business, tertiary, and consumer.

Which of the following is NOT primarily a consumer service?

• Transportation
• Education
• Health
• Hospitality
• Retail and Wholesale

Central place theory predicts larger settlements will be

• More numerous and closer together.
• More numerous and farther apart.
• Less numerous and farther apart.
• Less numerous and closer together.
• More numerous.

Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in?

• Agriculture
• Manufacturing
• Services
• Education
• All of the above

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the?

• Range
• Hinterland
• Median
• Threshold
• Meridian

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is?

• Meridian
• Threshold
• Hinterland
• Range
• Median

According to the range concept of Central Place Theory, people should be willing to travel far distances for a(n) ________ and only willing to travel short distances for ________.?

• Championship sporting event; a cup of coffee
• Flight out of an airport; groceries
• Wedding; a fast food restaurant
• All of the above
• None of the above

According to the gravity model, the potential use of a service at a location is related?

• Directly to population and inversely to distance.
• Directly to distance and inversely to population.
• Directly to both population and distance.
• Inversely to both distance and population.
• To the presence of other services

Periodic markets feature?

• Specialized business services.
• Vendors who move to serve more towns.
• Large sales after the holiday season.
• Prices that change on a seasonal schedule.