All the Unit 6 Vocab (Industry/Development) regardless of the ch it falls into
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| Agricultural labor force | show 🗑
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| Brian drain | show 🗑
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| Calorie consumption | show 🗑
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| show | A process through which tendencies for economic growth are self-reinforcing; an expression of the multiplier effect, it tends to favor major cities and core regions over less-advantaged peripheral regions
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| show | The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly use technology and organizational structures in the modern world united by improved transportation and communication
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| Currency manipulation | show 🗑
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| show | The process of growth, expansion, or realization of potential. Bringing Regional resources into full productive use
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A form of tourism pursued by many ecologically concerned perople, who visit regions having pristine ecosystems and, in the process, to inflict no environmental damage
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| Energy consumption | show 🗑
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| Food Security | show 🗑
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| show | investments made by a foreign company in the economy of another country
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| show | A plan, devised by Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin in 1808, that attempted to parallel land and water trafficways along the Atlantic seaboard, establish connections between Atlantic streams and western waters, connect the Great Lakes system, and create a system of westward roads to the frontiers
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| show | A measure of the opportunities given to woman compared to men within a given country.
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| Gross domestic product (GDP) | show 🗑
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| Gross national income (GNI) | show 🗑
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| Human capital THEORY OF MIGRATION | show 🗑
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| show | Measure used by the United Nations that calculates development not in terms of money pr productivity but in terms of human welfare. The HDI evaluates human welfare based on three parameters: life expectancy, education, and income.
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| show | That part of a national economy that involves productive labor not subject to formal systems of control or payment, such as taxation. Economic activity or individual Enterprise operating without official recognition or measured by official statistics. It ranges from under-the-table employment to buying and selling on the black market
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| Interstate Highway System | show 🗑
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| show | The study of how countries develop financially
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| show | A region in which manufacturing activities have clustered together. The major U.S. industrial region has historically been in the Great Lakes, which includes the states of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania. Industrial regions also exist in southeastern Brazil, central England, around Tokyo, Japan, and elsewhere.
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| show | the process of achieving an optimum level of health and well-being. It includes physical, biological, mental, emotional, social, educational, economic, and cultural components
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| National Highway System | show 🗑
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| Neo-colonialism | show 🗑
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| show | Derives from the idea that government intervention into markets is inefficient and undesirable, and should be resisted wherever possible. Popular during the late twentieth century, structural adjustment loans were often part of neoliberalism.
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| Niche marketeers | show 🗑
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| show | An Origin, destination, or intersection place in a communication or Transportation Network
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| show | A measurement of a country's wealth that takes account of what money actually Buys in the country, relative to the cost of living
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| Remittances | show 🗑
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| show | In political geography identification with a particular region of a state rather than with the state as a whole frequently used in ethnic groups
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| Rostow, W.W. | show 🗑
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| show | A concept popularized by the world Commission on environment and development brundtland report 1987 calling for development that meets the needs of the present without endangering the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of this seeks to balance the desire for economic growth with the recognition of environmental limits to growth
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| Technology gap | show 🗑
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| Technopole | show 🗑
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| show | The diffusion to our acquisition by one culture or region of the technology possessed by another, usually more developed, Society
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| show | Originally (1950s) designating countries uncommitted to either the first world Western capital is block or the second world Eastern communist Bloc. Subsequently, a term applied to countries considered in a state of under development and economic and social terms
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| show | The diffusion outward of the benefits of economic growth and prosperity from the Power Center or core area to pour districts in people
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| show | A level of economic and social achievement below what could be reached, given the natural and human resources of an area, were necessary capital and Technology available
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| show | One of a small number of interconnected, internationally dominant centers as in New York, London, Tokyo, that together control the Global Systems of finance and commerce
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| show | The theory looks at the internal factors of a country while assuming that, with assistance, "traditional" countries can be brought to development in the same manner more developed countries have; attempts to identify the social variables which contribute to social progress and development of societies, and seeks to explain the process of social evolution; is subject to criticism originating among communist and free-market ideologies, world systems theorists, globalization theory and dependency theorists
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| Core-Periphery model | show 🗑
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| show | 1) Traditional society
2) Preconditions for take-off
3) Take-off
4) Drive to maturity
5) Age of High mass consumption
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| show | States that LDCs tend to have a higher dependency ratio, the ratio of the number of people under 15 or over 64 to the number in the labor force.
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| World systems theory | show 🗑
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| show | Method of inventory management made possible by efficient transportation and communication systems, whereby companies keep on hand just what they need for near-term production, planning that what they need for longer-term production will arrive when needed.
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| show | Precipitation that is usually acidic and created when oxides of sulfur and nitrogen change chemically as they dissolve in water vapor in the atmosphere and return to Earth as acidic rain, snow, or fog
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| show | The savings to an individual Enterprise Drive from locational association with a cluster of other similar economic activities, such as other factories or retail stores
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| Air pollution | show 🗑
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| Aluminum industry (factors of production, location) | show 🗑
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| Assembly line production/Fordism | show 🗑
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| show | the inputs required for production, such as machinery, machine tools, metal working, and iron casting.
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| Base employment | show 🗑
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| Bid Rent theory | show 🗑
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| show | A location where goods are transferred from one type of carrier to another as in from barge to Railroad
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| show | An industry in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs.
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| show | An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs.
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| Carrier efficiency | show 🗑
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| show | The set of activities involved in the production of a single good or service. This in compus is the relationship between buyers and suppliers and the flows of materials, finance, and knowledge
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| Comparative advantage | show 🗑
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| show | An idea by Thorstein Veblen (sociologist) that people feel the need to display their status by ostentatiously consuming goods and services
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| show | the process whereby when one or two countries or markets or industries get ahead of others
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| Deglomeration | show 🗑
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| show | The cumulative and sustained decline of manufacturing activities in a regional or national economy, involving the loss of both firms and jobs
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| Deterritoralization | show 🗑
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| show | within a country's population, the amount of money available to be used to satisfy various wants.
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| show | Three Main Sectors Primary, Secondary and Tertiary describes the main areas at which people work in the economy.
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| Economies of scale | show 🗑
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| Energy Resources | show 🗑
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Is a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, alternative energy.
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| Export processing zone | show 🗑
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| show | Expenses that do not change in proportion to the activity of a business.
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| Footloose industry/firm | show 🗑
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| Greenhouse effect | show 🗑
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| Growth poles | show 🗑
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| Heartland/rimland Theory | show 🗑
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| show | The theory that profit of a business is maximized by choosing a location where production costs are lowest as well as land is cheapest and the distance from the market is the smallest. This is important to geography because it is used to describe why many businesses choose their locations in a given area and is key for describing complicated dynamics of industry.
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| show | areas communities have set aside for industrial uses
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| show | A period in the 18th and 19th century where great advances were made in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation in Britain, which eventually spread throughout the world causing global industrialization. It is important in geography because it is one of the most significant developments in industrialization and helps explain how we got to where we are today.
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| show | The basic structure of services, installations, and Facilities needed to support industrial, Agricultural, and other economic activity, including transportation and communication, along with water, power, and other utilities
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| Labor intensive | show 🗑
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| show | The location where a balance between lowest land costs and lowest transportation costs is achieved. It is important because it explains the location of many businesses, particularly those in industry.
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| show | Reductions in production costs by locating in areas where wages are lower or some other factor makes it cheaper to produce in that area
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| Major manufacturing regions | show 🗑
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| show | Foreign-owned manufacturing plant located in Mexico for the low-cost assembly of clothing, Electronics, Automobiles, and other export products
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| show | The tendency of an economic activity to locate close to its Market. A reflection of large and variable cost of transporting finished products
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| Mass consumption | show 🗑
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| Mass production | show 🗑
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| Mercantilism | show 🗑
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| show | A corporation with many divisions based on production lines or stages in the production chain (Harley Davidson with motorcycles)
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| Multiplier effect | show 🗑
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| show | North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement
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| New International division of labor | show 🗑
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| show | the greatest degree or best result obtained or obtainable under specific conditions
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| show | Producing abroad parts or products for domestic use or sale. Subcontracting production or Services rather than performing those activities in house
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| Postindustrial | show 🗑
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| show | A consistent cold temperature used to preserve perishable items during transportation and storage. Importance: Allows for longer travel distance in trade and availability to distant markets, increasing potential demand.
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| Resource crisis | show 🗑
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| show | highly developed economies that focus on research and development, marketing, tourism, sales, and telecommunications
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| Specialized economic zones | show 🗑
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| Substitution principle | show 🗑
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| Sun Belt | show 🗑
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| Time-space compression | show 🗑
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| show | Deliberate killing of a place through industrial expansion and change so its landscape is destroyed.
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| show | companies that operate factories in countries other than the one's in which they are headquartered; improve economy, avoid restrictions, lower site factors. US, Japan, Germany, France and UK
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| show | cost of enterprise operation that varies either by output level or by location of the activity
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| Venture capital | show 🗑
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| show | German economist who developed in 1909 a theory for the location of industries that focused on transportation, labor, and agglomeration as factors of production affecting the optimal (least cost) industrial location.
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| show | an industry that manufactures a large-sized product from small-sized raw materials
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| show | an industry that manufactures a small-sized product from large-sized raw materials
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| Zoning | show 🗑
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| Primary ECONOMIC activity | show 🗑
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| show | economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector
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| show | economic activity associated with the provision of services (transportation, banking, retailing, education, routine, office-based jobs)
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| show | service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital (finance, administration, insurance, legal services)
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| show | service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge skill (scientific research, high-level management)
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| FOUR TIGERS | show 🗑
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| show | Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa - Show the shift in global economic power
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| FORWARD LINKAGES | show 🗑
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