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Agricultural Transformations
The Fourth Revolution
Resources for the Future
Changing Job Sectors
Globalization Applications
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The shift from hunting and gathering to settled farming and animal domestication was the ___ Agricultural Revolution.
First
100
Using remote servers reached through the internet to store and process data is called ___ computing.
Cloud
100
Development that meets present needs without reducing future generations' ability to meet theirs is ___.
Sustainable development
100
Street vendors and day laborers working without official contracts or legal protections are in the ___ sector.
Informal sector
100
The increasing worldwide connection of economies, cultures, and places through flows of goods, people, and information is ___.
Globalization
200
Crop rotation, selective breeding, new tools, and improved fertilizers before modern industry characterize the ___ Agricultural Revolution.
Second
200
A network of physical sensors and machines that exchange data online is the ___.
Internet of Things (IoT)
200
Coal, petroleum, and natural gas form too slowly to be replaced on a human timescale; they are ___ resources.
Nonrenewable
200
Employees whose jobs are taxed, regulated, and protected by labor laws work in the ___ sector.
Formal sector
200
A company that owns or controls operations in multiple countries is a ___ corporation.
Transnational
300
Replacing hand harvesting with tractors and combines is agricultural ___.
Mechanization
300
A manufacturer uses a live virtual model of a factory machine to test changes before making them physically. The model is a ___.
Digital twin
300
An island replaces imported diesel with wind turbines, expanding ___ energy.
Renewable
300
The percentage of adults who are working or actively seeking work is the labor-force ___ rate.
Participation
300
An agreement among neighboring countries to reduce trade barriers within the group is a ___.
Regional trade agreement (trade bloc)
400
The linked system of farm inputs, production, processing, transport, marketing, and retail is called ___.
Agribusiness
400
Training displaced assembly workers for new technology-intensive jobs is called ___.
Reskilling
400
A dam decision must balance these three sustainability themes: social progress, ecological conservation, and ___.
Economic development
400
A high-income economy in which services and information work outweigh manufacturing is a ___ economy.
Postindustrial
400
A firm hires an independent company abroad to provide customer service rather than doing the work in-house. This is ___.
Outsourcing
500
Using precision irrigation, soil conservation, and drought-tolerant crops to increase food output while limiting ecological damage is ___.
Sustainable intensification
500
Unequal access to affordable broadband, devices, and digital skills between regions is the ___.
Digital divide
500
Countries sharing an aquifer limit pumping to no more than the water's natural recharge rate. They are managing it at its ___.
Sustainable yield
500
As a country industrializes, work shifts from farming to manufacturing and then to services. This long-run pattern is called ___ transformation.
Structural
500
Container shipping, aviation, and instant communication make distant places seem closer in economic decision-making. Geographers call this ___.
Time-space compression