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AP Human Geo

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Cottage industries   show
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Economies of scale   show
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show Cluster of inventions and innovations that brought large-scale economic changes in agriculture, commerce- and manufacturing in late eighteenth century Europe.  
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show An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port.  
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Situation   show
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Network   show
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First Mover Advantage   show
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Secondary Hearths   show
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Globalization   show
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show Manufacturing system in which raw materials are brought into a central location and component parts and the final product are produced at the same location and then shipped globally.  
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show The merging of businesses that serve different steps in one commodity chain.  
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show Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. The von Thünen model is an example.  
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Agglomeration   show
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Least Cost Theory   show
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show Difficulty in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance.  
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show Where two or more modes of transportation meet (including air, road, rail, barge, and ship).  
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show Economic system where people, corporations, and states produce goods and services and trade them on the world market with the goal of making a profit.  
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Commodification   show
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Global division of labor   show
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Time-space compression   show
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show Production system in which parts are delivered as needed to the assembly line so that parts are not warehoused, stored, or overproduced.  
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show The movement of production from one site to another based on the place-based cost advantages of the new site.  
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Node   show
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Commodity chain   show
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Outsourcing   show
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show Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.  
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show Tapping into companies that specialize in production around the world to manufacture goods.  
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Global production networks   show
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Newly industrializing countries (NIC)   show
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Break of Bulk Point   show
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show Decline in industry in a region or economy. Happens when companies move industry to other regions or mechanize production.  
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show A region in the northeastern United States that once had an extensive manufacturing industry but has been deindustrialized during the post-Fordist era.  
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High-Technology Corridor   show
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