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| In the U.S. large cities have moved from the Northeast to where? | south west
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| This continent will experience the greatest increase in uurbanization by 2050 | Africa
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| This city structure has wedges radiating out from the central business district | Sector model
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| This US city structure that has industry located around the central business district and upper class homes on the outskirts of the cit | concentric ring model
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| This US city structure that has small business districts scattered throughout the city. | multi-nuclei model
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| Historically, cities developed | along rivers for water and transportation
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| . In European cities, the upper class tends to cluster | the city center for access to amenities
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| The United Nations measure development of a country. | HDI
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| One strong indicator of low development is | more primary sector workers than secondary or tertiary sector workers
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| A primary sector of jobs | Farming
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| A secondary sector of jobs | Factory work
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| Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the distribution of industry was | Dispersed
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| Situation costs are critical to a firm wishing to | minimize transport costs
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| The mode of industrial transportation that is cheapest, but slowest, | shipping
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| The mode of industrial transportation that offers the most flexibility is | vehicle (trucks)
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| The mode of industrial transportation that is quickest is | airplane
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| The consumer good whose widespread availability reflects a high level of development is | television
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| A trading bloc that involves Canada, the US and Mexico | NAFTA
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| The organization works to eliminate trade barriers throughout the world | WTO
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| A model that an LDC could follow to increase development | self-sufficiency
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| . An LDC could borrow money for development from | The World Bank
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| The Industrial Revolution began in | Great Britain
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| The cottage industry system involved manufacturing | in the home
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| A copper concentration mill tends to locate near a copper mine because it is a | bulk-reducing industry
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| Transnational corporations have transferred some work to less developed countries because of access to | labor
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| The most common contribution that developing countries have to offer industry | low-wage workers
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| Western Europe’s most important industrial area | Rhine-Ruhr Valley
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| . The process whereby an increasing percentage of people live in an urban area | urbanization
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| The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered | Central Business District
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| The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service | range
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| A city at least twice as large as the next smaller city | primate city
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| The minimum number of people needed to support a service | threshold
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| The hierarchical organization of settlements by size is known as | rank-size rule
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| This fossil fuel has the largest worldwide reserves | coal
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| This crop that is most widely grown throughout the world | wheat
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| The commodity that is MN's highest grossing product | corn
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| In a subsistence form of agriculture, what percent of their population, on average, are farmers | 55%
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| What seed has an unknown hearth | rice
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| The US exports what fraction of the world corn | ½
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| Some regions produce more cheese than milk because | they are outside the milk shed
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| The distinctive type of agriculture practiced in the US Midwest, from Ohio to Iowa | mixed crop & livestock
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| The most abundant metallic mineral | iron
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| This sea is drying up | Aral Sea
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| The oldest documented city | Ur
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