Rostow's Stages
Wallerstein
Economic sectors
Agriculture
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In this stage (number and name) of economic development, Rostow says primary industries such as farming, fishing and forestry or mining are most prevalent. 

What is stage 1 traditional society

100

Wallerstein or World system model says there is a global economy which has these core, periphery and this other mixed economy type . 

What are semi-periphery?

100

This sector in the economy includes industries which extract and take out from the earth, and this other one processes them by manufacturing and factories. 

What are primary and secondary sectors? 

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Large amounts of labor and capital inputs relative to its land use are characteristic of this agricultural system. 

What is intensive agriculture? 

100

Latitude & Longitude or physical street address provide this useful thing for geographers.

What is absolute location?
100

This natural chokepoint runs through Istanbul, Turkey and connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara.

 What is Strait of Bosphurus?

200

This stage of economic growth is characterized by rapid development of social infrastructure (schools, hospitals etc.) and transportation infrastructure leading to expansion of industries and newer industries. 

What is drive to maturity stage 4?

200

Countries which are mostly involved in primary and secondary sectors of the economy are considered this according to the Wallersteins model.

What are periphery countries? 

200

Industries such as vacation resorts, restaurants, and hotels are part of this service based sector of the economy. 

What is tertiary sector? 

200

These two categories of farming have different characteristics; one primarily uses machines in which surplus is sold across global, national and local markets, the other uses manual labor and is mainly for communities or family consumption. 

What is commercial and subsistence farming? 

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Identify 4 scales of analysis which interpret data at different detail and scale. 

What are global, supranational, national, regional, subregional, local, etc. scales of analysis? 

200

The regional name given to this Northern part of Europe.

What is Scandinavia? 

300

Increased industrialization, and advent of urbanization are characteristic of this stage of modernization; secondary industries overtake primary sectors. 

What is Takeoff?

300

Countries with mixed economies that are industrializing and positioned between developed and less developed countries are this according to Wallerstein. 

What is semi-periphery? 

300

Bankers, insurance brokers and realtors who provide a special service processing information are considered to be workers in this sector of the economy. 

What is quaternary? 

300

Commodity crops such as corn, wheat, soybeans are less profitable than these other climate specific and profitable commodity types in agribusiness often taking advantage of economies of scale. 

What are luxury/ specialty crops?

300

Identify 3 different map projections. Types include: azmithal & cylindrical  Conical, with properties: equal area, equidistant, compromise, conformal


What are Mercator, Gall-Peters, Robinson, Winkel-Tripel, Goode Homolosine projections?

300

This chokepoint, relevant in the current geopolitical conflict with Iran, sees over 20% of the world's oil shipped through here, connecting the Persian gulf with the Arabian sea. 

What is strait of Hormuz?

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Commercialization and mechanization of agriculture; initial investments in infrastructure to support manufacturing production needed for trade are characteristic of this stage of modernization.

What are preconditions for takeoff?

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A negative aspect or disadvantage of Wallerstein's core/periphery world economy model. 

What is it does not consider social and political issues?

400

Reducing labor costs by and cost-minimizing effects of this coordinated efforts of competing producers may cluster their factories to share these costs. 

What is agglomeration? 

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Identify why manufacturing ethanol, a biofuel product would be processed in close proximity to a corn producing area.

What is reducing transportation cost of raw material? 

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Related to weight, size and volume in transporting market-oriented products which get larger through production.

What is bulk gaining?

400

This tundra like region in northeast Asia.

What is Siberia?

500

This economic sector is characterized by high level of consumption due to large amounts of disposable income, demand for luxury goods and shopping malls. 

What is mass consumption?

500

Decreasing cost per unit as volume of production increases is this term related to economics. Large commercial farms are able to take advantage of this by specialization, technology use, and bulk purchasing.

What is economies of scale? 

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When products are material oriented, and as it is processed reduces in size of shipment and lowers cost. 

What is bulk reducing?