1. Chapter 12: Key Issue 1
Where Did Services Originate?
1. What percentage of the work-force in the USA is employed in the provision of services?
2. What percentage of the LDC work-force is employed in the service sector? Why is this difficult to
calculate?
3. Please read the section on “Types of Services” and then create a pie chart with brief descriptions of the
different types of services people within the USA are employed in.
4. According to archeologists, what was the first service industry people created?
5. What was the first public service industry?
6. Describe the evolution of the early business services.
7. Today, most people who live in rural areas live in either clustered or dispersed settlements. Please make
notes summarizing each below.
Clustered Rural Settlements Dispersed Rural Settlements
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2. Chapter 12: Key Issue 2
Why Are Consumer Services Distributed in a Regular Pattern?
1. What is the purpose of Central Place Theory?
2. Why are hexagons the best shapes for explaining a market area (hinterland) in the Central Place Theory?
3. To determine the extent of a market area, geographers need to determine a service’s range and threshold.
Please summarize what is meant by each of the terms below.
range:
threshold:
4. Explain how the mathematical principle (median) and the gravity model help geographers determine the best
location for a service industry.
5. Please describe what is meant by the rank-size rule.
6. How is the primate city rule different from the rank-size rule?
7. Explain what is meant by the term periodic markets.
Fold this part of the paper into your notebook.