The City
Agriculture
It's the Economy, Stupid
Home Is Where the Hearth Is
In Other Developments
100
The movement of people from rural to urban settings
What is urbanization?
100
Growing only enough food in order to survive
What is subsistence farming?
100
Type of economic activity concerned with extracting resources and agriculture
What is a primary economic activity?
100
Hearth of urbanization located in modern-day Egypt
What is the Nile River Valley?
100
A country advanced in technology, agricultural and industrial production, and socioeconomic welfare
What is a developed country?
200
The most populous city in a country that is disproportionally larger than other cities in the same country
What is a primate city?
200
The genetic modification of plants such that their reproductive success depends on human intervention
What is plant domestication?
200
The dominant mode of mass production during the 20th century, with production of consumer goods along an assembly line at a single site
What is Fordism?
200
Hearth of urbanization located in modern-day Mexico and Guatemala
What is Mesoamerica?
200
Measure of the total value of the officially recorded goods and services produced within a country by the citizens and corporations in a given year
What is gross domestic product (GDP)?
300
Suburban "downtowns" often located near freeway ?intersections
What is an edge city?
300
The cultivation of crops in tropical forest settings in which the forest is removed via cutting or burning and crops are planted
What is shifting cultivation?
300
The illegal, quasi-illegal or uncounted array of economic activities that governments do not tax or monitor
What is the informal economy?
300
Hearth of urbanization located in modern-day Pakistan
What is the Indus River Valley?
300
A measurement that calculates the number of people under age 15 or over age 65 per 100 workers in a given country
What is the dependency ratio?
400
Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of buildings can be built in certain areas
What are zoning laws?
400
General term for the businesses that provide the vast array of goods and services that support the agriculture industry
What is agribusiness?
400
Type of economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials into finished goods
What is a secondary economic activity?
400
Hearth of urbanization located in modern-day China
What is the Huang He River Valley?
400
Measure of the monetary worth of what is produced within a country plus money received from investments outside the country
What is gross national income (GNI)?
500
The layout of a city; its physical form and structure
What is urban morphology?
500
Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods
What is a genetically modified organism (GMO)?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
What are maquiladoras?
500
Hearth of urbanization located in modern-day Iraq
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Areas within a country in which tax incentives and less stringent environmental regulations are implemented in order to attract foreign businesses
What are special economic zones?
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