Industrial Revolution
What is Industrialization?
The process of converting production of goods from manual labor to machine made.
What are some examples of activities from the primary sector?
Resource gathering such as agriculture, fishing, mining, etc.
What is the GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, not accounting for money that enters and leaves a country.
An imaginary line that separates the MDCs in the Northern Hemisphere from the LDCs in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is sustainability?
What is a direct effect of industrialization?
Furthers human development, creates new machines, and improves the production of goods. (Anything applied)
What is the tertiary sector?
The sector that provides services such as retail, healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment.
What measures the factors that lead to development in the economy?
The Human Development Index (HDI)
What comprises Wallerstein's World System Theory?
A three-tier structure showing global development by country starting with periphery, moving to semi-periphery, and then core countries being the most developed.
What is ecotourism?
A form of tourism based on the enjoyment of scenic areas or natural wonders that aims to provide a experience of nature or culture in an environmentally sustainable way
How does the availability of natural resources affect industrialization.
Provides a source of materials to facilitate the process of industrialization and can make or break whether or not it happens. (Anything related)
How does the primary sector directly affect the secondary sector?
What does an economy that has commodity dependence experience?
A reliance on the export of primary commodities for a large share of its export earnings and economic growth
What are the 5 stages of economic growth based off Rostow's model?
Traditional, Pre-Conditions to Take Off, Take Off, Drive to Maturity, and High Mass Consumption.
What's an example of an unsustainable use of land?
A brownfield, a property which has the presence of potential to be a hazardous waste, pollutant or contaminant. (former gas stations, dry cleaners)
How did industrialization expand/impact the middle class?
Growth of businesses and factories with rapidly growing job opportunities.
What is the difference between the quaternary and quinary sector?
Quinary is related to high-level thinking, decisions, and data gathering on the government level, while quaternary is lower level knowledge, with research and information transfer at the city level.
What opportunities do microloans provide for women?
How is the dependency theory defined?
A structuralist theory that offers a critique of the modernization model of development. Stems from the idea of political and economic relations between countries/regions and the arrangements they have to control/limit a regions development.
What's the result of non-sustainable events?
Results in mass depletion's, the loss of diversity through a failure to produce new species
What were the global development and economic changes brought about from the Industrial Revolution?
Allowed countries to progress to the next stage of development, increased production, grew urbanization, and advanced technology.
How does the size/reliance on a certain sector reflect a country's level of development?
More developed countries may shift from primary to secondary and tertiary focused, reflecting more industrialization and services.
What is the role of women in the workforce?
Roles of women change as countries develop, they have limitations and low equity in wages and employment opportunities
What is the location theory?
An attempt to explain the locational pattern of economic activities and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated.
What energy is the most sustainable?
Renewable energy, something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans