Economic Geography

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Across
  1. 2. producers or their agents freely market their goods and services
  2. 6. producers or their agents freely market their goods and services, the laws of supply and demand determine price and quantity, and market competition is the primary source of shaping production decisions and distributions
  3. 7. the largest volume or rate of use that will not impair it’s ability to be renewed or to maintain the same future productivity
  4. 15. a model showing transport costs are uniform in all directions away from the center from a center point of a market
  5. 16. actions that harvest or extract something from the earth
  6. 19. firms seek a site of minimum transport and labor cost
  7. 22. private firms that have established branch operations in nations foreign to their headquarters country
  8. 24. those businesses and labor specializations that provide services to the primary and secondary sectors as goods and services to the general community and to the individual
  9. 26. A changing way of life and economy in which the distinction between subsistence and commercial.
  10. 27. based on harvesting the natural bounty of renewable resources
  11. 28. the planning mechanism created to achieve independent operation
  12. 29. farmers producing for off-farm sales who apply large amounts of capital and/or labor per unit of land
  13. 30. savings from shared transport facilities, social services, public utilities, communication facilities, and the like.
Down
  1. 1. cooperatives whose unpaid members lost their own land and joined brigades of other workers assigned specific tasks during the crop year
  2. 3. producers or their agents disposed of goods and services through government agencies (associated with communist-controlled societies)
  3. 4. the introduction of a foreign element into an indigenous culture and economy
  4. 5. the act of adding value to materials by changing their form or combining them into more useful, and therefore more valuable, commodities
  5. 8. The wandering but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent on natural forage. Farmers hack down the natural vegetation, burn the cuttings, and then plant crops such as corn, cereal grain, rice, manioc or cassava, yams, and sugarcane.
  6. 9. composed of services rendered by white collar professionals working in education, government, management, information processing, and research
  7. 10. cheaper land gives rise to larger farm units (ex: wheat farms and livestock)
  8. 11. the shorthand reference to a complex and management improvements adapted to the needs of intensive agriculture that have brought larger harvests from a given area of farmland
  9. 12. the study of how people earn their living, how livelyhood systems vary by area, and how economic activities are spatially interrelated and linked
  10. 13. removing non renewable metallic and nonmetallic minerals from the earth’s crust
  11. 14. the wandering but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent on natural forage
  12. 17. areas tend to specialize in the production of those items for which they have the greatest relative advantage over other areas
  13. 18. subdivisions of a total cost
  14. 20. Goods and services are created for the use of the producers and their kinship groups.
  15. 21. refers to the clustering of productive activities and people for Mutual advantage
  16. 23. rotating fields rather than crops to maintain productivity
  17. 25. government enterprises operated by paid employees of the state