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Is it Bulk-reducing or Bulk-gaining?
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Everything Else
100
What is A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
Industrial Revolution
100
Mining
What is Bulk-Reducing Industry
100
BRIC (NIC's) List the 5 NIC's
What is Brazil, Russia, India, China
100
is a company with no allegiance or ties to a country or a location that, therefore, can move its primary locations at will. Many times, this is done for tax purposes.
What is Footloose Industry
100
____________________was the first person to coin the terms core and periphery.
Who is Wallerstein World Systems Theory
200
What is Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found prior to the Industrial Revolution.
Cottage industry
200
Beverage Production
What is Bulk-Gaining Industry
200
Four Asian Tigers
What is Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore
200
jobs from the United States to less developed countries, where companies can pay employees pennies on the dollar.
What is outsourcing
200
The most important cost in Weber's Least Cost Theory is 
What is labor costs
300
What is An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs.
Bulk-reducing industry
300
Smelting (Metal melting)
What is Bulk-Reducing
300

Program that provides small loans to poor people to encourage development of small businesses.

Microcredit or microloans
300
Is the centralization of features of an industry for the mutual benefit of the industry as a whole. Ex: Silicon Valley
What is Agglomeration
300
Economic Sectors A. __________are involved in the basic activities, such as farming. 
What is Primary Economic Sector
400
What is an industry in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs.
Bulk-gaining industry
400
Copper Concentrate
What is Bulk-Reducing
400
Areas where special regulation exist to entice companies to bring manufacturing to a country
Export Processing Zones
400
is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially heavy industry or manufacturing industry. It is the opposite of industrialization.
What is Deindustrialization
400
is the informal description for a postindustrial region straddling the Northeastern and the East North Central States, referring to economic decline, population loss and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once powerful industrial sector. The term gained popularity in the United States in the 1980s
What is the Rust Belt
500
What is a location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another.
Break-of-bulk point
500
Fabricated Metals
Bulk-Gaining Industries
500
A. _________ Is the selling value, or market price, of all the goods and services produced within a particular country's borders, typically in a given year. B. __________ Is the value of the goods and services produced by that country companies, usually within one year. This can include sales from transnational corporations in other countries.
What is A. GDP B. GNP
500
Define- Core- periphery Semi-Periphery
What is Core-developed countries. Located primarily in N. America, Europe, etc... Periphery Areas-Less developed countries. Many natural resources, benefits the more developed countries. Semi Periphery- Four Asian Tigers. Gaining in development and have the benchmarks of success but are still lacking the political importance associated with the core countries.
500
List the five states that a country progresses through in its development.
What is Rostow's Model of Development 1.Traditional society 2. The preconditions for takeoff, or the transitional stage 3. the takeoff 4. The drive to maturity 5. the age of Mass consumption
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