Chapter 10 keywords

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Across
  1. 2. The savings to an individual enterprise that result form spatial association with other similar economic activities.
  2. 3. The term suggesting the great increases in food production, primarily in subtropical areas, accomplished through introduction of very high-yielding grain crops, particularly wheat and rice.
  3. 5. Crop production of forest clearings kept in cultivation until their quickly declining fertility is lost. Cleared plots are then abandoned and new sites are prepared.
  4. 6. The maximum rate at which a renewable resource can be exploited without impairing its ability to be renewed or replenished.
  5. 11. The view that the optimum location of a manufacturing establishment is at the place where the costs of transport and labor and the advantages of agglomeration or dispersion are most favorable.
  6. 13. A crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important than capital or labor inputs in determining output.
  7. 15. The concentric zonal pattern of agricultural land use around a single market center proposed in the von Thunen model.
  8. 20. Those parts of the economy that fulfill the exchange function and that provide market availability of commodities.
  9. 21. The migratory but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent upon natural forage.
  10. 23. A system in which goods and services are created for the use of producers or their immediate families. Market exchanges are limited and of minor importance.
  11. 24. The study of how people earn a living, how livelihood systems vary by area, and how economic activities are spatially interrelated and linked.
  12. 26. A crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important than capital or labor inputs in determining output.
Down
  1. 1. Primary activities involving the harvesting of renewable natural resources or land or water, commercial gathering usually implies forestry and fishing industries.
  2. 4. Primary activities involving the mining and quarry of nonrenewable metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources.
  3. 7. The application of large amounts of capital and/or labor per unit of cultivated land to increase output.
  4. 8. A region´s profit potential for a productive activity compared to alternate areas of production of the same good or to alternate uses of the region´s resources.
  5. 9. A large business organization operating in at least two separate national economies.
  6. 10. Those parts of the economy involved in the processing of raw materials derived from primary activities.
  7. 12. The spatial grouping of people or activities for mutual benefit.
  8. 14. That employment concerned with research, with the gathering or disseminating of information, and with administration of the other economic activity levels.
  9. 16. The application of large amounts of capital and/or labor per unit of cultivated land to increase output.
  10. 17. The production of goods and services, usually consumed or distributed by a governmental agency, in quantities and at prices determined by governmental programs.
  11. 18. Those parts of the economy involved in making natural resources available for use or further processing.
  12. 19. The production of goods and services for exchange in competitive markets where price and availability are determined by supply and demand forces.
  13. 22. A large agricultural holding, frequently foreign-owned, devoted to the production of a single export crop.
  14. 25. The costs of production inputs that changes as the level of production changes.