AP Human Geography Economics and Industry Vocab.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alfred Weber | formulated a theory of industrial location: an industry is located where the transportation costs of raw materials and final product is a minimum. |
| Break-of-Bulk-Point | a location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another. |
| Capital Resources | human-made goods, tools, machines, and buildings used to produce other goods and services. |
| comparative advantage | the ability of an individual to carry out a particular economic activity. |
| consumer services | buisness that provide services primarily to individual consumers. |
| cultural convergence | the tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by inproved transportation and communication systems. |
| enclosure act | the process of consolidation small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th century. |
| fair trade | alternative to international trade that emphasizes small buisness and worker owned and democratically run cooperatives. |
| foundry | a workshop or factory for casting metal |
| fordist | carious social theories anbout production and related socio-economic phenomena. |
| gravity model | a model that holds the potantial use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversly related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. |
| Hamlet | a small settlement, generally one smaller than a villiage |
| Heartland | the central, or most inportant part of a country, area, or field of activity |
| Hinterland | the area surrounding a town or port and served by it. |
| Industrial Triangle | located in Germany |
| Iron curtain | a national barrier that prevents the passage of information or ideas between political entities, in particular. |
| labor-intensive industry | labor costs make up a high % of total expenses |
| linear settlement | a small to medium sized settlement formed around a transportation route |
| megalopolis | a very large, heavily populated city or urban complex |
| OECD | organization for economic cooperation and development |
| productivity | the value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it. |
| range | the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
| range-size rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such as the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. |
| slag | stony waste matter seperated from metals during the smelting or refining of ore |
| textiles | a fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing |
| threshold | the minimum number of people needed to support a service |
| value added | the gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy |
| WW Rostow | produced a model of development in the 1950's |
| Ziggurat | a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. |
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