Vocabulary Chapter 3
Vocabulary Chapter 4
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Primary Industry Trends
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having many different ways to generate jobs and money, for example, a city has factories, stores, restaurants etc.
What is economically diversified
100
a massive laying off of workers by a company
What is downsizing
100
What land use changes would result if many people within a community chose to use bicickes instead of cars?
There will be less need for roads and parking lots, and more open green space would be possible. The city centre would stay more concentrated and would not tend to spread out as much as it does when roads and highways encourage sprawl.
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People finished their education and went to on to one main career. Where as now people will have several careers in life and will retrain every few years
What is Old Workplace compared to New Workplace
100
Typical jobs for this Primary Industry are: geneticist, computer programmer, plant biologist
What is farming
200
A super city
What is a megalopolis
200
The hiring of outside, independent workers to do some part of a company's work
What is outsourcing
200
Using two specific examples, explain how land use may change as technology changes
When the car was developed, the shape and size of cities changed quickly as people were able to move farther away from the centre of town. A great deal of land was taken over to accommodate the car. As technology developments change the nature of factories and manufacturing to lighter cleaner industry, old heavy industrial land use areas are sometimes abandoned. New industrial parks are built in the outskirts of towns and cities.
200
These are the children of the baby busters. They will make their way into the work market starting in 2015
What are the Millennium Kids
200
Pulp and paprer mills and saw mills increasingly automated for this industry
What is forestry
300
The growth of cities outward into surrounding rural areas
What is urban sprawl
300
Factors that describe changes in the general population
What are demographic trends
300
Agricultural, Commercial, Residential are only three from a list of what? Please finish naming the rest
What is land use. Industrial, Institutional, Recreational
300
What are some trends that are occuring in all parts of the developed industrial world?
-more jobs -more people self employed -more people work from home -more women work outside the home while still doing unpaid work in the home -more workplaces are getting by with fewer employees -more people hold more than one job -more jobs are created in small or medium sized companies than in large corporations
300
Robots and computers will take over this industry
What is mining
400
The physical features of an area
What is site
400
The group of babies born between 1947 and 1960
What are the baby boom cohort
400
Explain the difference between settlement patterns and land use. How do they depend on each other?
Settlement patterns are the shapes that are formed on the surface of the earth as a result of where people live. Land uses are the different ways people use the land, such as for agricultural or residential purposes.
400
Describe the trends in agriculture and in infomration systems.
In 1800's almost everyone worked in agriculture, growing food for themselves and a small market of epople in towns and cities. The trend since then has been a steady decline in farming jobs so taht today very few people are left working in agriculture. The job rate trend in information workers has climbed from about 1960 on. Examples being more use of machinery requiring less labour. Trends in information systems are expansion of e-commerce both for business and retailing
400
What aer some typical jobs for the fishing industry
Marine biologist, oceanographer, aquaculture farmer and consultant
500
The relationship between a site and its surroundings, such as available natural resources, transportation routes etc.
What is situation
500
the increasing trend to do business on an international level; trading countries must take into account all the forces that are at work in order to compete
What is globalization
500
Name the three patterns of settlement?
Cluster: Houses, towns or villages grouped closely together Scattered: Sometimes called dispersed. This is the main pattern found in agricultural regions of North America. Linear: Sometimes called strings. This pattern consists of groups of houses or villages that form a long line, which can be straight or wavy.
500
They are the first generation of cellular phone users and are more likely to shop and bank online
Who are the Baby Boom Echo
500
What are some of the alternative fuel sources for this industry?
solar, hydrogen fuel cell, wind, biomass and nuclear fusion
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