AP Human Geography Unit 6: Industry & Economic Development

Question 1

The minimum number of people needed to support the service.

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Threshold & Range

Question 2

A business decision to turn over much of the production to independent suppliers overseas.

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Outsourcing

Question 3

Rejects belief that LDCs are mirror images of what MDCs used to be. Choose own path.

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Wallerstein's Dependency Model

Question 4

GDP + Net income inflow from abroad – Net income outflow to foreign countries= ______.

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Gross National Product

Question 5

References economic & political policies where MDCs may have economic influence over LDCs.

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Neocolonialism

Question 6

Rapid economic & social changes in manufacturing in England at the end of the 18th century.

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Industrial Revolution

Question 7

Professions that benefit from close proximity (share skilled-labor, tech, and finance).

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Agglomeration

Question 8

Government _________ offer favorable tax, regulatory, & trade arrangements to foreign firms.

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Export Processing Zones

Question 9

Business in which the cost of transporting materials is not a factor for the location of firms.

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Footloose Industry

Question 10

Absorption of carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, & other gases causing atmospheric heating.

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Greenhouse Effect

Question 11

Which of these areas is not one of the largest regions for agglomeration of industry?

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Western South America

Question 12

A monetary measurement which takes account of what money actually buys in each country.

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Purchasing Power Parity

Question 13

UN level of progress for each country (add income, literacy, education, & life expectancy)

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Human Development Index

Question 14

Difference in the industry usable in developed core regions & that present in peripheral areas.

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Technology Gap

Question 15

Maritime term for extraction of a portion of the ship's cargo, or beginning of unloading phase.

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Break of Bulk Point

Question 16

A deal allowing open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada.

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NAFTA

Question 17

Basic literacy rate, IMR, & life expectancy at age 1, all equally weighted on a 0 to 100 scale.

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Physical Quality of Life Index

Question 18

A system of standardized mass production attributed to this auto pioneer.

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Henry Ford

Question 19

A trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties.

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Entrepot

Question 20

Deliberate killing of a place by industrial expansion (landscape & character are destroyed)

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Topocide

Question 21

The economies of Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

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Four Tigers

Question 22

______ promotes the sharing of knowledge and resources to a wider audience to enhance the field

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Technology Transfer

Question 23

Corrosive precipitation caused by atmospheric pollution (industrial burning of fossil fuels).

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Acid Rain

Question 24

Examples of countries for ____ include Kenya, Palau, Costa Rica; US states include CA, LA & AK.

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ecotourism

Question 25

Which of the following job positions is considered labor intensive?

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Mechanic

Question 26

Expenses, such as rent, that are constant whatever the quantity of goods or services produced.

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Fixed Costs

Question 27

MDCs are the focus, & LDCs are the fringe. Polar map=circular view, flat map=N/S line.

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Core Periphery Theory

Question 28

A U.S. factory located in Mexico near the border to take advantage of cheaper labor costs.

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Maquiladora

Question 29

Developing nations, generally less economically powerful, but with varied economies.

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Third World

Question 30

A major U.S. _____________ is located in the Great Lakes (MI, IL, IN, OH, NY, & PA)

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Industrial Region

Question 31

Key facilities & systems serving a country or region (transportation, utilities, schools, etc)

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Infrastructure

Question 32

Total value of goods & services made within the borders of a country (usually within a year).

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Gross Domestic Product

Question 33

Which of the following is not a challenge for an LDC?

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Low population and minimal labor force

Question 34

Provides small loans to poor people, especially women, to promote small businesses.

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Microcredit Program

Question 35

Who developed the World Systems Theory?

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Wallerstein

Question 36

The primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, and quinary categories of an economy.

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Economic Sectors

Question 37

The tendency of an economic activity to locate close to its market.

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Market orientation

AP Human Geography Unit 6: Industry & Economic Development

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AP Human Geography Unit 6: Industry & Economic Development

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