Mrs. Kidd's AP HG
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| Grouping together of many firms from the same industry in a single area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources. | show 🗑
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| show | Ancillary activities
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| Human-centered; in sustainable development, this refers to ideas that focus solely on the needs of people without considering the creatures with whom we share the planet or the ecosystems upon which we depend. | show 🗑
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| show | Backwash effect
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| A location where large shipments of goods are broken up into smaller containers for delivery to local markets. | show 🗑
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| show | Brick-and-mortar business
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| Industries whose products weigh more after assembly than they did previously in their constituent parts. Such industries tend to have production facilities close to their markets. | show 🗑
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| A firm that is comprised of many smaller firms that serve several different functions. | show 🗑
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| show | Core
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| A model of the spatial structure of development in which underdeveloped countries are defined by their dependence on a developed core region. | show 🗑
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| show | Cottage industry
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| show | Deglomeration
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| show | Deindustrailization
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| The process of economic growth, expansion, or realization of regional resource potential. | show 🗑
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| Web-based economic activities. | show 🗑
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| Regions that fail to gain from national economic development. | show 🗑
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| A form of tourism, based on the enjoyment of scenic areas or natural wonders, that aims to provide an experience of nature or culture in an environmentally sustainable way. | show 🗑
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| show | Export-processing zone
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| Areas of the world, usually the economic core, that experience greater levels of connection due to high-speed telecommunications and transportation technologies. | show 🗑
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| Manufacturing activities in which cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not important for determining the location of the firm. | show 🗑
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| System of standardized mass production attributed to Henry Ford. | show 🗑
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| Overseas business investments made by private companies. | show 🗑
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| A measure of the opportunities given to women compared to men within a given country. | show 🗑
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| The idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected on a global scale such that smaller scales of political and economic life are becoming obsolete. | show 🗑
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| show | Gross Domestic Product
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| show | Gross National Product
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| show | Human Development Index
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| The rapid economic and social changes in manufacturing that resulted after the introduction of the factory system to the textile industry in England at the end of the 18th century. | show 🗑
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| Process of industrial development in which countries evolve econimically, from producing basic, primary goods to using modern factories for mass-producing goods. | show 🗑
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| Those countries including Britain, France, the United States, Russia, Germany, and Japan, that were all at the forefront of industrial production and innovation through the middle of the 20th century. | show 🗑
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| A concept developed by Alfred Weber to describe the optimal location of a manufacturing establishment in relation to the costs of transport and labor, and the relative advantages of agglomeration or deglomeration. | show 🗑
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| show | Least-developed countries
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| show | Manufacturing region
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| show | Maquiladoras
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| show | Net National Product
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| show | Nonrenewable resources
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| Areas that have been specially designed to promote business transaction, and thus have become centers for banking and finance. | show 🗑
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| show | Outsourcing
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| show | Periphery
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| Economic activities in which natural resources are made available for use or further processing, including mining, agriculture, forestry, and fishing. | show 🗑
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| A measure of the goods and services produced within a particular country. | show 🗑
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| show | Purchasing Power Parity
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| show | Quaternary econimic activities
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| show | Quinary economic activities
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| show | Regionalization
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| show | Renewable resources
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| show | Rostow's stages of development
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| The manufacturing region in the United States that is currently deliberated because many manufacturing firms have relocated to countries offering cheap labor and relaxed environmental regulations. | show 🗑
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| show | Secondary economic activities
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| show | Semi-periphery
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| Highly developed economies that focus on research and development, marketing, tourism, sales, and telecommunications. | show 🗑
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| show | Slow world
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| show | Spatially fixed costs
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| An input cost in manufacturing that changes significantly from place to place in its total amount and in its relative share of total costs. | show 🗑
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| Goods that are not mass produced but rather assembled individually or in small quatities. | show 🗑
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| The idea that people living today should be able to meet their needs without prohibiting the ability of future generations to do the same. | show 🗑
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| Activities that provide the market exchange of goods and that bring together consumers and providers of services such as retail, transportation, government, personal, and professional services. | show 🗑
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| show | Transnational corporation
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| show | World cities
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| show | World-systems theory
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