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100
This major factor has led the Four Asian Tigers to economic success (CHOICES: raw materials, trading goods, cheap immigrant labor, low transportation costs, low land costs).
What is trading goods?
100
The United Kingdom has established greenbelts around certain cities to prevent this (CHOICES: major traffic tie-ups, urban sprawl, the spread of poverty, pollution, bad race relations).
What is urban sprawl?
100
The modern game of soccer spread to many parts of the world because of British colonization. This is an example of this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
100
This is the primary reason for establishing a proruption in a boundary (CHOICES: to create hostility among neighbors, control different nationalities w/in borders, access more raw materials, gain greater economic autonomy from colonizers, establish communications in the country).
What is to access more raw materials?
100
This country has the largest oil reserves in the world.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
This term describes the transfer of an automobile from a train to a truck at a distribution point (CHOICES: GNP, growth pole, outsourcing, break-of-bulk point, carrier efficiency).
What is a break-of-bulk point?
200
According the Ullman & Harris's multiple nuclei model, these develop at the outskirts of core cities (CHOICES: airports, nucleated cities, edge cities, world cities, first-ring suburbs).
What are edge cities?
200
This revolution coincided with the world's population explosion (CHOICES: 1st Agricultural Revolution, 2nd Agricultural Revolution, 3rd Agricultural Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Demographic Revolution).
What is the 2nd Agricultural Revolution (coincided w/the Industrial Revolution)?
200
Southeast Asia from the 1950s through the 1970s was considered this (CHOICES: theocracy, nation-state, shatterbelt, regional conflict, microstate).
What is a shatterbelt?
200
This country possesses the greatest natural gas reserves.
What is Russia?
300
This cartel, established in 1960, is the primary group in the world setting oil prices (It's OPEC but what does each letter stand for?).
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
300
Homer Hoyt's sector model is based on this fundamental principle of development (CHOICES: it's based on location of amenities, structured around the CBD, based around enterprises such as airports, centered around transportation routes, independent of the CBD).
What is it is centered around transportation routes?
300
The idea that once a culture locates in another area, the original customs & traditions eventually die out or are less strong is best characterized by this term (CHOICES: place utility, acculturation, distance decay, transhumance, gravity model).
What is distance decay?
300
The process of growing crops in tropical areas for sale in more developed countries is this type of farming (CHOICES: slash-and-burn, plantation agriculture, intensive subsistence, shifting cultivation, commercial agriculture).
What is plantation agriculture?
300
This is the most noticeable trend in the last 30 years w/respect to the world's 20 most populated cities (CHOICES: most are now in more developed countries, a higher % are now in Europe, most are now located in LDCs, most are now in Africa, they have not changed much- only grown in population).
What is most of the 20 cities are now located in LDCs?
400
An industry such as potato chips, which uses potatoes & salt as raw materials, is a good example of this (CHOICES: variable costs, fixed costs, weight-gaining industry, ubiquitous costs, weight-reducing industry).
What is a weight-reducing industry?
400
The Pentagon in Washington DC is a good example of this (CHOICES: festival landscape, symbolic landscape, military landscape, urban landscape, postmodern landscape).
What is a symbolic landscape?
400
This group of people believes that the world is ripe for a population explosion (CHOICES: Neo-Malthusians, Bressnerians, Malthusians, Demographers, Neo-Bressnerians).
Who are the Neo-Malthusians?
400
Three of the largest dairy regions in the US are in the NE (NY & PA), the Upper Midwest (WI & MN), & California which explains this phenomenon (CHOICES: transportation systems are better here, climates are conducive to dairy cattle, large urban centers in each zone, industrial output is greater due to these crops, more milk drinkers in these areas).
What is large urban centers are located in each zone?
400
The area in the urban setting with the highest land value, usually located w/in the CBD is called this (CHOICES: planned community, high lateral investment zone, peak land value intersection, third-ring suburb, tertiary land value).
What is a peak land value intersection?
500
This concept suggests that less developed countries are still economically dependent upon more developed countries for their economic livelihood (CHOICES: postcolonialism, precolonialism, neocolonialism, natocolonialism, market orientation).
What is neocolonialism?
500
This is the one characteristic that links megacities (CHOICES: an efficient form of mass transportation, a population of more than 10 million, a world-class airport w/international connections, financial wealth > than its GDP, focused around a CBD).
What is a population of more than 10 million people?
500
This percentage of the world's languages are expected to die out within the next century (CHOICES: 90%, 75%, 50%, 25%, 10%).
What is 90% of the world's languages?
500
This is the process of splitting existing plants into 2 and replanting both parts to propogate crops (CHOICES: seed agriculture, aquaculture, vegetative planting, subsistence agriculture, plantation agriculture).
What is vegetative planting?
500
This world class city is the best example of an entrepot (CHOICES: Shanghai, Dubai, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Singapore).
What is Singapore?