AP Human Geography Unit 7

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Colonialism

Settlements established by a country that then impose their political, economic, and cultural principles

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Imperialism

To control a territory that is already occupied and organized by another indigenous society

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Industrialization

Development of industries that use machines to produce their goods

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Manufacturing

Using raw materials and processed goods to create finished products

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Break of bulk point

A place where you can transfer goods from one mode of transportation to another (usually with lowest/minimal cost)

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Core Countries

Developed countries (have a lot of control over the world market)

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semi-periphery

Those newly industrialized countries with median standards of living, such as Chile, Brazil, India, China, and Indonesia

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periphery countries

the least developed and least powerful nations; often exploited by the core countries as sources of raw materials, cheap labor, and markets

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Markets

A place that people can buy or sell goods and items

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Alfred Wegener Least Cost Theory

Industries can make the most profit by decreasing transportation, labor costs, and

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agglomeration (<def: extended town area consisting of the built-up area of a central place and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area)

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based on their location

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industry

the manufacturing of goods in a factory

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Primary sector

The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry.

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Secondary sector

The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.

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Tertiary Sector

The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.

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Quaternary Sectors

"Knowledge sector": intellectual activities, technological innovations (Ex: scientific research, government, literature )

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Quinary Sector

Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management.

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Formal Economy

Any economic activities that has some form of government monitoring and is taxed

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Fossil fuels

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Gender empowerment

Designed to achieve gender equality

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Gender Inequality Index(GII)

An indicator constructed by the U.N. to measure the extent of each country's gender inequality in terms of reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market.

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Gross Domestic Product(GDP)

the total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year

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Gross National Income(GNI)

Value of a country's final income in a year divided by its population.

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Gross National Product(GNP)

Total value of goods and services produced in the country per year. GDP + net income of foreign investments

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Foreign Direct Investment

Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.

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Human Development Index

Indicator of level of development for each country, constructed by United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy

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life expectancy

average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.

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Income Distribution

How a nation's GDP is distributed among its population

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Infant Mortality Rates

Number of deaths per 1000 live births

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Literacy rates

How many people out of 100 are literate

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Informal economy

Part of economy that is not taxed or monitored by the government in any sort of way

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Labor-market participation

Measure of an economy's active workforce

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Renewable energy

Energy that is produced at the same rate, or faster than we are using it

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Reproductive health

State of complete physical, mental and social well-being,

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Microloans

Small loans often used to reduce poverty

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Small-scale finance

Obtaining money to start a new small business.

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Commodity Theory

Value of a product or service is related to its availability

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Dependency theory

Resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states,

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commodity dependence

An economy that relies on the export of primary commodities for a large share of its export earnings and hence economic growth

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Complementarity

two places are said to exhibit a degree of this if each offers something to the other that it needs or wants.

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comparative advantage

the ability to produce a good at a lower opportunity cost than another producer

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Rostow's Economic Development Model

  • indicates that before high level economic development can occur, countries must pass through predictable and sequential stages
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  • high mass consuption is the last stage
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  • countries will proceed through a series of states in which a country focuses on the development of industries in which it has a comparative advantage
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economics

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World Bank

A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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International Monetary Fund (IMF)

an international organization that acts as a lender of last resort, providing loans to troubled nations, and also works to promote trade through financial cooperation

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Structural Adjustment Program

Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade, such as raising taxes, reducing government spending, controlling inflation, selling publicly owned utilities to private corporations, and charging citizens more for services.

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fair trade

Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.

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Wallerstein's world system theory

illuminated by his three-tier structure, proposing that social change in the developing world is inextricably linked to the economic activities of the developed world.

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Gini Coefficient

A measure of income inequality within a population, ranging from zero for complete equality, to one if one person has all the income.

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Complementary advantage

Two regions specifically have goods the other needs (trade with e/o)

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Comparative advantage

Ability to produce a good at a lower cost than another producer (like whats happening with the oil and russia rn i think )

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Debt crisis

Me. jk; When a country can't pay off a large amount of debt

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Economies of scale

Larger companies usually produce goods at a cheaper price than smaller companies

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Neoliberal Policies

Market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing state influence in the economy, especially through privatization and austerity (set of political-economic policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits)

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Tarrifs

Tax placed on importing/exporting goods

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Global Financial Crisis

Financial crisis of 2007-8 due to deregulation in banks, allowing banks to trade with derivatives, and then raise mortgages to increase the profitable sale of these derivatives

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International Monetary Fund

Organization with 189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

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MERCOSUR

South African trade bloc established by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Goal: promote free trade, fluid movement of goods, people, currency

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OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Group with 14 of the major producers of oil. Goal: coordinate the petroleum policies of its members and to provide member states with technical and economic aid.

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renewable resource

A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed

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WTO(World Trade Organization)

Negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, an j,hhb,jd importers conduct their business.

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Agglomeration

Grouping together many industries in an area to share infrastructure and labor resources.

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Bulk-reducing industry

An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs.

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Bulk-gaining industry

An industry in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs.

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Traditional Society

The economy is focused on primary production (fishing, agriculture.) The country's limited wealth is spent internally on things that do not promote economic development. Technical knowledge is low.

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Preconditions for takeoff

the stage of Rostow when an elite group starts economic activity; educated leaders start to take charge of the economy

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Takeoff

Economy shifts to industrialization and some labor shifts to factories with new urban infrastructure.

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Industrial Revolution

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

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cottage industry

Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.

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Drive to Maturity Stage

A stage in economic development, described by Rostow, as characterized by the technological and entrepreneurial skill to produce anything society chooses to produce.

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high mass consumption

advanced technology fuels mass production and mass consumption as people now "need" countless goods

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Export-processing zones

Location where the government allows the import of goods under security, without payment of duty.

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Footloose Firms

Manufacturing activities in which cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not important for determining the location of the firm.

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Brownfields

abandoned polluted industrial sites in central cities, many of which are today being cleaned and redeveloped

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Backwash effect

Occurs when other regions suffer a drain of resources and talent due to agglomeration in another region.

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Deglomeration

The dispersal of an industry that formerly existed in an established agglomeration.

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Fordist methods

System of standardized mass production attributed to Henry Ford.

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Maquiladora

Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico.

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Free trade agreements

Trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports (Ex: NAFTA)

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Growth Poles

Point of economic growth; usually urban locations and benefit from agglomeration economies.

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gross domestic product per capita

a country's GDP divided by the number of people who live in the country

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Back office processing

office or center in which the administrative work of a business is carried out, as opposed to its dealings with customers

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free trade zone

an area of a country in which trade restrictions do not apply

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High technology industries

Industries with the most advanced technologies available. (Ex: Solar energy)

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International division of labor

Core countries are dependent on periphery for cheap labor.

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Periphery are dependent on core for manufacturing jobs.

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Just-in-time delivery

Tryin to reduce time in production system and response time from suppliers to consumers

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Labor-intensive industry

An industry for which labor costs comprise a high percentage of total expenses.

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Capital

money for investment

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right-to-work laws

A state law forbidding requirements that workers must join a union to hold their jobs.

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Multiplier Effects

Idea that government use of money is reflected in a change in the economy

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Outsourcing

Turning over production in part or in whole to another firm or business outside the country.

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(Ex: US shoe company opens factory in China and hires Chinese workers)

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Post-Fordist methods of production

More flexible production practices and not mass produced.

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Special Economic Zones

Specific area within a country in which taxes and incentives are used for attracting foreign and domestic businesses and development.