AP HuGe Unit 5 Test Review Nov 2015

Traditional society/Preconditions for take-off/Take-off/Drive to maturity/High consumption

Allows open trade between the US, Mexico, and Canada.

The economic control that MDCs are sometimes believed to have over LDCs.

Beverage production

location of manufacturing is determined by minimizing labor, transportation, and agglomeration

series of links connecting places of production & distribution of product

Production accelerated/dispersed around the globe by MNCs-shift production, outsourcing

used to explain spatial shifts of manufacturing from advanced countries to developing countries

Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger/achieve universal primary education/promote gender equality

firms will identify a zone of profitability (not just a point)  

a port or city which goods are brought for import/export & for collection and distribution

Requires employers to pay fair wages, permit unions & comply to environmental/safety standards.

Location factors related to the transportation of materials into and from a factory.

Areas set up in periphery & semi-periphery that offer favorable tax and trade arrangements

regions that fail to gain from national economic development.

Location factors related to costs of production inside the plant:  land, labor, and capital

Decrease or loss of similarity between two observations as the distance between them increases.

copper smelting

special economic zone on Mexico's northern border with the United States

Provides small loans to poor people (many women) to encourage development of small businesses

An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs

Manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials

Costs that vary or change depending on the location of an industrial activity.

Costs that remain the same no matter where a business chooses to locate.

Series of improvements in industrial tech that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

Increasing sense of connectivity seem to bring people closer even though distances are same

Travel to natural areas, conserves environment & improves well-being of local people

Physical separation of some production away from the main production facility for cheaper labor

A measure of how much absolute distance affects the interaction between two places.

Automobile manufacturing

South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong: increasingly important role in global economy

Alternative to international trade-small businesses/worker owned and democratically run coops

the total value of all goods and services produced by a country's economy in a year

Agreed to be open to foreign trade, especially in 19th- and -20th-century China and Japan

Process improvement in material conditions of people thru diffusion of knowledge and technology

place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment

emigration of knowledgeable, well-educated, skilled people from home country to another country

the total value of all goods and services produced within a country during a given year

Industry in which the production of goods and services is based in homes (not factories)

imperialism caused colonies to be dependent-this helps sustain the prosperity of dominant areas

organization not run by state or local governments that generally operate as nonprofits

Direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface

Agriculture, Mining, Fishing, and Forestry

model:social change in the developing world is linked to economic activities of developed world

An industry in which the final product weighs more or has a greater volume than the inputs.

Oldest and highly urbanized industrial area

A multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change.

Company that conducts research/operates factories/sells products in many countries -not just HQ

Special area-tax incentives/less environment regs in place-attract foreign business/investment

Measure used by UN-calculates development in terms of human welfare

Method of inventory management: companies keep just what they need for near-term production

Group together of many firms from same industry single area-cooperative use of infrastructure

A location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another

Transportation, communications, and utility services provided to people in exchange for payment

industry located at any location without effect from factors such as resources or transport

manufacturing process broken down which different groups of people performing different tasks

Location of industries not understood w/o reference to location of other industries of likekind

Potato chip manufacturing

a center of high-tech manufacturing and information-based quaternary industry.

Method to becoming more developed that involves blocking off all trade.

Loss of industrial activity in a region