AP HUMAN GEO
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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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| show | Benefit a service or product receives by being the first to market.
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| show | Area to which an innovation diffuses and from which the innovation diffuses more broadly.
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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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| 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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| show | Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.
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| show | The ability of corporations to employ labor from around the world, made possible by the compression of time and space through innovations in communication and transportation systems.
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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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| show | Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in, out, and through the network.
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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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| 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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| show | A place where goods are transferred from one form of transport to another. For example, in a port, cargoes of ships are unloaded and put on trains, trucks, or riverboats for inland distribution.
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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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| show | Areas along or near major transportation corridors that are devoted to the research, development, and sale of high-technology products.
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