Geography

Across

4. an extensive and continuous metropolitan area consisting of overlapping metropolitan areas
6. Intensive industrial agriculture producing perishable products such as dairy fruit vegetables, Central valley of California, Imperial Valley, Sacramento Valley, Relies on cheap labor, destined for market
8. A community or region that is beyond the traditional suburbs
9. Transferring individual genes between organisms or modifying the genes in an organism to remove or add a desired trait or characteristic.
11. The study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.
12. The movement from urban areas to outlying satellite towns or the rural fringe
13. Multilateral organization that an oversees the global financial system by influencing macroeconomic policies
15. a concentration of businesses and shopping outside a traditional urban area
16. areas in the "global south" where countries invite industries for processing and export
18. Large numbers of animals in crowded buildings designed to produce as much meat or eggs as possible
19. Worlds largest manufacturer
21. Concentration of high density land-uses in a city "downtown"
25. Movement of middle-class people into run-down parts of the city
27. The immediate interconnectedness of societies, cultures, and economies through communication, transportation, and trade.
29. (Sector of Economy) processing those resources into products for sale (Using wood for woodwork)
31. the integration of national economies through trade and the movement of capital
35. Redirect money, so places with a lot of money don’t get all the money
36. potato like plant, feeds millions in South/central America, west/central Africa, SE Asia
38. A multilateral institution that promotes "harmonization" and liberalization of trade around the world.
40. in 2007, Foreclosures rose dramatically, Financial institutions were in deep trouble
41. Central America free trade

Down

1. Method of growing rice by flooding the field, South and East Asia: tropical - subtropical, Substantial labor, minimal mechanization, Subsistence and market
2. Multilateral institution that provides loans and technical assistance to developing countries for developmental related projects (IBRD)
3. 2005-2006, Low interest rate since 2001, Global investors looking for higher returns, Subprime and predatory lending
4. urban areas and surrounding satellite cities and rural areas
5. Monocropping specialty crops on large sections of land, Tropics or subtropics, usually with cheap labor and for export
6. Spatial reorganization of economic activities since approximately the 1970s caused by economic globalization
7. Woodlands are cut and burn, mainly in the tropics, labor based with fire doing most of the work,More subsistence than market
10. is the conversion of rural or natural areas into urban areas.
14. Sprawl The spread of low density suburbs into rural, agricultural areas
17. loss of jobs and predominance of manufacturing in economy
20. When were the "first suburbs" developed?
21. growing cereal crops (corns, soy beans, wheat) using industrial practices to feed animals and as inputs into other products, midlattitude, grasslands, mechanized, market
22. (Sector of Economy) Transportation/ communication services
23. Major transnational corporation
24. A large scale institutional and technological effort to grow more food (wheat and rice), especially in Asia (1966-1974
26. Technology rich regions drawn together by its three research universities to grow high tech industry (Florida)
28. Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia China
30. An intergovernmental agreement, where regional barriers to trade are reduced or eliminated among the participating states.
32. a factory that imports materials, assembles, or manufactures a product and then re-exports the product.
33. December 2007 - June 2009
34. contraction out a business function that used to be done in-house
37. (Sector of Economy) extracting resources from the environment (Fishing, foresters)
39. genetic modified organism