AP Human Geo Chapter 12 Vocabulary
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| show | Production of goods in a home or small workshop, typically by hand or with low technology.
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| show | Savings in cost of production that comes from increasing production of a good.
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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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| Hinterland | show 🗑
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| show | The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context.
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| show | A set of interconnected nodes without a center.
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| show | Benefit a service or product receives by being the first to market.
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| Secondary Hearths | show 🗑
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| show | Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country borders.
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| Fordist | show 🗑
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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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| Friction of distance | show 🗑
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| show | Where two or more modes of transportation meet (including air, road, rail, barge, and ship).
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| Capitalism | show 🗑
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| Commodification | show 🗑
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| Global division of labor | show 🗑
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| show | Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks.
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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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| Commodity chain | show 🗑
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| show | Hiring employees outside the home country of a company in order to reduce the cost of labor inputs for the good or service.
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| Connectivity | show 🗑
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| show | Tapping into companies that specialize in production around the world to manufacture goods.
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| show | Pattern of flows from raw material to global product to disposal or reuse of products that shows all the places connected through production.
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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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