Chapter 10 Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. In the former Soviet planned economy, the term referred to the cooperative operation of an agricultural enterprise under state control of production and market, but without full status or support as a state enterprise.
  2. 5. Those parts of the economy that fulfill the exchange function and that provides market availability of commodities; includes wholesale and retail trade and associated transportation, government, and information services.
  3. 7. In the economic planning of the former Soviet Union, a design for large regional industrial, mining, and agricultural development leading to regional self-sufficiency and the creation of specialized production for a larger national market.
  4. 8. A large agricultual holding, frequently foreign-owned, devoted to the production of a single export crop.
  5. 12. The migratory but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent upon natural forage.
  6. 14. crop production of forest cleanings kept in civilization until their quickly declining fertility is lost. Cleared plots are then abandoned and new sites are prepared.
  7. 16. A system in which goods and services are created for the use of producers of their immediate families. Market exchanges are limited and of minor importance.
  8. 18. under the planned economy of the former soviet union, a government agricultural enterprise operated with paid employees.
  9. 21. The term suggesting the great increases in food production, primarily in subtropical areas, accomplished through the introduction of very high-yielding grain crops, particularly wheat and rice.
  10. 23. The spatial grouping of people or activities for mutual benefits.
  11. 26. A crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important that capital or labor inputs in determining output.
  12. 27. The employment concerned with research, with the gathering or disseminating of information, and with administration, including administration of the other economic actively levels.
  13. 28. Primary activities involving the mining and quarrying of nonrenewable metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources.
  14. 29. The production of goods and services for exchange in competitive markets where price and availability are determined by supply and demand forces.
Down
  1. 1. Those parts of the economy involved in making natural resources available for use or further processing; includes mining, agriculture, forestry, fishing, or hunting, grazing.
  2. 2. The production of goods and services, usually consumed or distributed by a governmental agency, in quantities and at prices determined by governmental programs.
  3. 4. 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.
  4. 6. A crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important that capital or labor inputs in determining output.
  5. 9. The application of large amounts of capital and/or labor per unit of cultivated land to increase output; may have either commercial or subsistence orientation.
  6. 10. The maximum rate at which a renewable resource can be exploited without impairing its ability to be renewable or replenished.
  7. 11. A regions profit potential for a productive activity compared to alternate areas of production of the same good or be alternate used of the regions resources.
  8. 13. A large business organization operating in at least two separate national economies.
  9. 15. The application of large amounts of capital and/or labor per unit of cultivated land to increase output; may have either commercial or subsistence orientation.
  10. 17. The study of how people earn a living, how livelihood systems vary by area, and how economic activities are spatially interrelated and linked.
  11. 19. The spatial grouping of people or activities for mutual benefits.
  12. 20. The concentric zonal pattern of agricultural land use around a single market center proposed in the Von Thunen model.
  13. 22. Primary activities involving the harvesting of renewable natural resource of land or water; commercial gathering usually implies forestry and fishing industries.
  14. 24. Those parts of the economy involved in the processing of raw material derived from primary activities; includes manufacturing, construction, power generation.
  15. 25. In economic geography, the costs of production inputs the change as the level of production changes. They differ from the costs incurred by agricultural or industrial firms that are fixed and do not change as the amount of production changes.