Human Geography Vocab
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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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| Economies of scale | show 🗑
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| Industrial Revolution | show 🗑
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| Hinterland | show 🗑
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| show | The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context
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| show | A set of interconnected nodes without a center
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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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| Vertical Integration | show 🗑
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| Location theory | show 🗑
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| show | Cost advantages created when similar businesses cluster in the same location. For example, car manufacturers cluster in a city or region to tap into a skilled labor force and access infrastructure, services, and technology
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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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| 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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| 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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| show | Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in, out, and through the network
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| show | Steps in the production of a good from its design and raw materials to its production, marketing, and distribution
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| Outsourcing | show 🗑
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| show | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network
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| Global sourcing | show 🗑
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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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| show | Decline in industry in a region or economy. Happens when companies move industry to other regions or mechanize production
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| Rust Belt | show 🗑
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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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