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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| Economic activities that surround and support large-scale industries such as shipping and food service. | show 🗑
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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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| The negative effects on one region that result from economic growth within another region. | show 🗑
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| show | Break-bulk point
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| Traditional businesses with actual stores in which trade or retail occurs; it does not exist solely on the Internet. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Core-periphery model
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| An industry in which to production of goods and services is based in homes, as opposed to factories. | show 🗑
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| The dispersal of an industry that formerly existed in an established agglomeration | show 🗑
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| Loss of industrial activity in a region. | show 🗑
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| The process of economic growth, expansion, or realization of regional resource potential. | show 🗑
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| show | E-commerce
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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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| show | Fast world
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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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| show | Gender equity
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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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| The total value of goods and services, including income recieved from abroad, produced by the residents of a country within a specific time period, usually one year. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Industrialized countries
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| show | Least-cost theory
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| Those countries including countries in Africa, except for South Africa, and parts of South America and Asia, that usually have low levels of economic productivity, low per capita incomes, and generally low standards of living. | show 🗑
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| A region in which manufacturing activities have clustered together. | show 🗑
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| Those U.S. firms that have factories just outside the United States/Mexican border in areas that have been specially designated by the Mexican government. In such areas, factories cheaply assemble goods for export back into the United States. | show 🗑
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| A measure of all goods and services produced by a country in a year, including production from its investments abroad, minus the loss or degradation of natural resource capital as a result of productivity. | show 🗑
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| show | Nonrenewable resources
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| show | Offshore financial center
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| show | Outsourcing
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| Countries that usually have low levels of economic productivity, low per capita incomes, and generally low standards of living. | show 🗑
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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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| Economic activities concerned with research, information gathering, and administration. | show 🗑
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| The most advanced form of quaternary activities consisting of high-level decision making for large corporations or high-level scientific research. | show 🗑
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| The process by which specific regions aquire characteristics that differentiate them from others within the same country. | show 🗑
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| Any natural resource that can replenish itself in a relatively short period of time, usually no longer than the length of a human life. | show 🗑
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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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| Economic activities concerned with the processing of raw materials such as manufacturing, construction, and power generation. | show 🗑
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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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| The developing world that does not experience the benefits of highspeed telecommunications and tranportation technology. | show 🗑
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| show | Spatially fixed costs
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| show | Spatially variable costs
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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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| Theory developed by Immanuel Wallerstein that explains the emergence of a core, periphery, and semi-periphery in terms of economic and political connections. maintained through incre | show 🗑
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