Human Geography Vocab
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| Cottage industries | show 🗑
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| show | Savings in cost of production that comes from increasing production of a good
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| Industrial Revolution | show 🗑
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| show | An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port
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| show | The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context
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| Network | show 🗑
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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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| show | Manufacturing system in which raw materials are brought into a central location and component parts and the final product are produced at the same location and then shipped globally
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| show | The merging of businesses that serve different steps in one commodity chain
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| Location theory | show 🗑
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| Agglomeration | show 🗑
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| Least Cost Theory | show 🗑
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| show | Difficulty in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance
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| Intermodal | show 🗑
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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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| Time-space compression | show 🗑
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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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| Spatial fix | show 🗑
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| Node | show 🗑
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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 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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| 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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| Deindustrialization | show 🗑
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| Rust Belt | show 🗑
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| High-Technology Corridor | show 🗑
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