Economic Geography
Across
- 4. A collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations to mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
- 5. economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector
- 6. Exchange of goods and services
- 7. the physical land area where a settlement is established...including physical features and climate
- 8. Residential developments characterized by extreme poverty that usually exist on land just outside of cities that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants.
- 13. illegal trafficking of drugs from country to country.
- 14. the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad.
- 16. for each person; in relation to people taken individually.
- 18. Shows the percentage of people in a country who can read and write at an elementary school level.
- 19. Process of improving economic/material conditions of people through the diffusion of knowledge and technology
- 20. The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land.
- 21. the total market value of all final goods and services produced annually in an economy
- 22. the factors within and surrounding the site which impact the economic activities and development...including connectedness to other successful settlements and proximity to natural resources
Down
- 1. Illegal uses of intellectual property, patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
- 2. the taking of resources in the territory of one nation or ethnic group by an outside power, basis of colonialism and the modern global economy
- 3. Economic activity associated with the provision of services - such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs.
- 9. economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment-- such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture
- 10. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.
- 11. Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
- 12. The illegal trade of human beings, a modern-day form of slavery, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or involuntary military combat.
- 15. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.
- 17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum.