Vocab
what does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product
What are the 3 types of countries in Wallerstein's World Systems Theory?
core, semi periphery, periphery
The high mass consumption stage is.
What is Stage 5
What is the place where goods are transported from one mode of transportation to another called?
Break-Of-Bulk Point
Two map projections from unit one
- Mercator
- Gall-Peters
- Goode-Homolosine
- Watermelon
- Albers
- Robinson
The measuring of gender inequality.
What is GII?
economic sectors
Primary, secondary. tertiary, quaternary
-Diffusion of technology
-Industrial specializations
-Expanding international trade
-Population growth slows
Is what stage
What is stage 4
What is ecotourism
When a country's economy is held by tourism
The two forms of government
Unitary and Federal
what is outsourcing?
Relocating companies to periphery countries where labor costs are lower
And little to no worker benefits are required
Creates a loss of jobs in the US
Usually jobs outsources are involved in the primary and secondary sectors
A core country is most likely to be in which stage of the Demographic Transition Model?
Stage 4 or 5
Stage 3 definition
What is Prepare for takeoff
Define Industrialization.
The process by which economies transform from primarily agrarian societies to ones based on the manufacturing of goods and services.
TFR definition
What is total Fertility Rate
The spatial process of clustering by commercial enterprises for mutual advantage and benefit.
What is Agglomeration?
what is Weber's least cost theory
industry is situated within the area where the costs of transporting raw materials and the final output are minimal
Stage 2 is called
What is preconditions for takeoff
deindustrialization
define MDC and LDC's
More Developed Country
Least Developed Country
define bulk gaining and reducing.
bulk gaining-An industry in which the final product has more space than the raw materials
Bulk reducing-An industry in which the final product has less space than the raw materials
world systems theory
divides countries of the world into three groups based on political power, social standing, and economic and technological development
The takeoff stage is.
What is stage 3
NAFTA
A political and economic union of 27 European countries that have chosen to cooperate closely in various areas, including trade, governance, and social policy.
what does epz stand for?
economic processing zone