AP Human Geography Unit 7
Across
- 2. Economic measure of development; measures price of specific goods against price of same goods in another country
- 3. Process by which companies outsource or offshore jobs, leaving urban areas to decay or trans
- 7. Loans given to those living on the periphery for investment capital in business; Grameen Bank
- 9. Sector of economy that lacks government oversight; i.e. drug trafficking, lawn mowing
- 10. Type of economic effect that sees positive economic outcomes beyond a growth pole
- 11. Type of agreement between countries that reduces trade restrictions i.e. tariffs
- 13. The potential of a job to produce additional jobs in an area; e.g. auto manufacturing bringing many jobs to city
- 17. Author of a development theory that sets countries into a series of 5 "stages" by which they may move forward; focuses on national scale
- 18. The ability to produce a good/service at a lower opportunity cost than another country
- 20. Type of industry where manufactured products gain weight/volume during production; brewing
- 21. Type of factories built by US companies in northern Mexico to produce cheap goods/services
- 23. Also called Fordism, it is the process of making large quantities of goods
- 24. Economic measure of development; total value of all goods/services of a country
- 25. economy to service sector
- 26. Author of a development theory that dictates countries fall into 1 of 3 "levels" -- Core, Periphery, & Semiperiphery
- 27. Social measure of development that takes into account years of schooling, life expectancy at birth, and GNI per capita
- 28. Sector of an economy based around service-based occupations
Down
- 1. Began in England and led to increased innovation and urbanization across the world
- 2. Sector of an economy based around resource extraction
- 4. Mutually beneficial relationship between two or more countries with the trade of goods/services
- 5. Tax on imported goods
- 6. Coefficient, or measure, of income inequality of a country
- 8. Region of the United States where deindustrialization has taken place
- 12. Theory developed by Alfred Weber to explain the location of industry/manufacturing
- 14. Type of industry where manufactured products lose volume during production; iron smelting
- 15. Area where shipping containers and products are able to efficiently distribute and transport goods; typically shipping harbors
- 16. Sector of an economy based around manufacturing
- 19. Clustering of businesses/services for advantageous economic purposes
- 22. Region within a state that contains a high level of growth and concentration of economic development