AP Human Geo Development & Economic Geography

Impact free trade & globalization have had on different jobs being done in different places has led to an increase in:

The economic sector that includes services that distribute finished products to consumers

The economic sector that includes the harvesting of raw materials from the earth

Factories that have been established in Mexico by foreign companies

Per capita GDP is a good indicator of which of the following?

The economic sector that includes services that represent the highest levels of expertise

Industries that locate near a larger, related industry that benefits from its proximity

The term for the assembly line in its most basic form, where workers complete repetitive tasks

The process of an area seeing its economy transition away from manufacturing work

The term for an industry whose product increases in weight through production

The economic sector that includes the processing of raw materials into usable products

The term for the assembly line in its more recent form, w/ increased use of automation & data

The term for the standardization of shipping resources

Production that reduces need for storage & allows for high level of specialization in goods

The new international division of labor reflects the growing importance of

Which of the following is the last stage of development of Rostow’s model?

The term for an industry whose product does not need to locate near its inputs or markets

Areas that governments allow to avoid taxes/regulations in order to stimulate economic activity

The term for an industry whose product decreases in weight through production

The measurement of the ability to buy similar products in different places

Term for an industry whose product spoils easily/quickly & needs to be located near its market

The economic sector that includes services that require the creation/management of data/info

Based Wallerstein's World Systems Model, which of the following regions of the United States is least developed?

Economic activities in which the commodity chain is shortened to benefit workers in LDCs

An industry that needs to locate near its markets would most desire to locate near

If the per capita GDP in a given country is about $1,500, this indicates that it is a

The process of deindustrialization in an area drains all but ________ from surrounding areas?