ELEMENT A
Examines how the economies of the world interact with each other and why the economies of individual countries differ so much.
What is economic geography?
What are goods?
The physical land area where a settlement is established...including physical features and climate conditions
What is site?
This is known as the reason one of the major reasons for human movement to cities
What is an attempt to find work?
What is counterfeit?
The value of all goods and services produced within a country.
What is GDP?
Part of the service sector connecting the manufacturers with the customers such as banks, medical services, shops, and education.
What are tertiary economic activities?
The factors within and surrounding the site which impact the economic activities and development...including connectedness to other successful settlements and proximity to natural resources.
What is situation?
What is urbanization?
Drug trade, counterfeiting, black market goods, are all examples of...
What is illegal trade?
This phrase means "per person".
What is "per capita"?
Taking yields from primary activities and making something such as homes, canned foods, steel, and cars.
Easy access to fresh water, close proximity to natural resources, and suitable land for growth and development are all factors of this economic geography term.
This is known as unplanned, informal residential areas where residents occupy land without legal ownership or building permits.
What are squatter settlements?
USMCA fka NAFTA, EU, and OPEC, are examples of this...
literacy rate
life expectancy
gender equality
access to healthcare
fall into a particular category that tell us how a country may be doing economically and socially.What are social indicators?
Basic, necessary activities such as agriculture, fishing, and mining.
What are primary economic activities?
are all components of a favorable ...
What is situation?
Transforming low-income urban neighborhoods into higher value areas through reinvestment, bringing in wealthier residents and new businesses is known as ...
What is
EU
USMCA
UN
ASEAN
Read the white board...
As demonstrated by the social indicators listed on the board, this country has a higher level of development.
What is Norway?
Josiah is a miner for diamonds in Russia. As he mines the diamonds, they are transported to a manufacturer who cleans and shapes the diamonds. The diamonds are then shipped to another manufacturer who creates various rings.
Finally, the diamond rings are transported to jewelers such as Cartier, Tiffany's, and Kay's where there are sold to customers.
Each part of this scenario describes a level of economic activity...explain on your white board (This does not have to be phrased as a question).
PRIMARY : Josiah mining for diamonds.
SECONDARY : Diamonds being transported and manufactured into rings.
TERTIARY : Jewelers selling the diamond rings.
Baghdad is located near the Tigris and Euphrates river.
Singapore commands the strait between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, making it a very important trading site.
Both of these cities are great representations of favorable...
The rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and town is known as...
What is an urban sprawl?
This is organization focuses on regulating the global supply of oil.
What is The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries aka OPEC?