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Industry and Services
Potpourri
Agriculture
Economic Activities
Humanized Environment
100
Moving individual steps in the production process to a supplier, who focuses their production and offers cost savings
What is outsourcing?
100
A nation with no state of its own
What is a stateless nation?
100
Growing only enough food in order to survive
What is subsistence agriculture?
100
Agriculture, ranching, hunting, forestry and mining are all examples of this type of economic activity
What is a primary economic activity?
100
Most common gas in Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
200
A process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor
What is deindustrialization?
200
Region where the First Agricultural Revolution took place
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Tea, coffee, tobacco, cacao and poppies are all examples of this type of crop
What are luxury crops?
200
Bankers, lawyers, clerks and salespeople work in this sector of the economy
What is the service sector?
200
The approximate age of the Earth
What is 4.6 billion years?
300
A series of inventions that brought new uses to known energy sources, brought new machines to improve efficiency, and enabled other new inventions
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
What are refugees?
300
Cultivation of crops in tropical forest settings in which forest is removed via cutting or burning and crops are planted
What is shifting cultivation?
300
The area containing people who are likely to purchase a service or a good
What is a market area?
300
A period of global cooling during which continental ice sheets and mountain glaciers expand
What is glaciation?
400
The dominant mode of mass production during the 20th century, with production of consumer goods at a single site
What is Fordism?
400
Places where foreign investment, jobs, and infrastructure are concentrated
What are islands of development?
400
Genetic modification of plants such that their reproductive success depends on human intervention
What is plant domestication?
400
The minimum demand necessary to support a service
What is the market threshold?
400
The approximate age of the universe
What is 13.7 billion years?
500
Method of inventory whereby companies keep on hand just what they need for near-term production
What is just-in-time-delivery?
500
The 1882-1907 acts of Congress designed to prevent Chinese immigration to California
What are the Oriental Exclusion Acts?
500
Agricultural revolution associated with the biological manipulation of seed varieties to increase crop yields
What is the Green Revolution?
500
Maximum distance customers are willing to travel to reach a service
What is the market range?
500
Layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth's surface
What is the troposphere?