Latin America
US owned company in Mexico
Maquiladora
Why is the Rhine River so important for trade?
It runs through Switzerland, Austria, and Germany and flows through a deepwater sea port in Rotterdam
What is the term for when people move to the suburbs?
urban sprawl
Jobs relating to the production/extraction of raw materials
primary economic activities
What shows how good a country’s education is?
literacy rate
What does NAFTA stand for?
North American Free Trade Agreement
What supranational organization regulates the economy in Europe that contains 28 countries?
EU
What are areas in major cities where homeless people live called?
squatter cities
What are examples of secondary economic activities?
Manufacturing jobs, automobile production, construction, factory jobs
What shows how good a country’s education is?
Literacy Rate
Large amounts of illegal drugs move into the United States via cartels from which countries?
Mexico, Peru, and Colombia
What is a major crop that is farmed in South American plantations that results in deforestation in the Amazon?
coffee
What is the term for when run down locations are bought by investors and fixed up called?
gentrification
What are secondary economic activities?
Jobs relating to the processing/manufacturing raw materials
Ending poverty, ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, promoting sustainable agriculture are all goals for what?-
UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
term for modern day slavery that involves force, fraud, and coercion to obtain some sort of labor
human trafficking
What is the term that describes deep drilling using water/chemicals to get natural gas?
fracking
In the United States people are moving from primary jobs like farming to quaternary jobs such that involve the use of what?
technology
In more developed (core) countries what types of economic activities are more prevalent?
tertiary
What shows if a country has gender equality/education for women?
Crude Birth Rates
What does NAFTA allow?
No tariffs on imports/exports so lots of jobs move from america to mexico for cheaper labor rates
What is the process of creating open pit mines to extract coal called?
strip mining
Why are so many technological industries located in North Carolina?-
The 3 universities forming a research triangle and bringing industry to the recent college grads
What are examples of primary economic activities?
Farming, resource extraction, mining, hunting, fishing
What do the US and Canada trade most frequently in the pacific northwest?
lumber