Across
- 1. 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. those parts of the economy involved in making natural resources available for use or further processing; includes mining, agriculture, forestry, fishing,hunting, or grazing
- 8. the maximum rate at which a renewable resource can be exploited without impairing its ability to be renewed or replenished
- 11. crop production of forest clearings kept in cultivation until their quickly declining fertility is lost, cleared plots are then abandoned and new sites prepared
- 12. the study of how people earn a living, how livelihood systems vary by area, and how economic activities are spatially interrelated and linked
- 13. 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
- 16. 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
- 18. the production of goods and services for exchange in competitive markets where price and availability are determined by supply and demand forces
- 20. a crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important than capital or labor inputs in determining output has subsistence orientation
- 22. the savings to an individual enterprise that result from spatial association with similar economic activities
- 23. in the economic geography, the costs of production inputs that change as the level of production changes. They differ from the costs incurred by agriculture or industrial firms that are fixed and do not change as the amount of production changes
- 24. the production of goods and services, usually consumed or distributed by a governmental agency, in quantities and at prices determined by governmental programs
- 26. primary activities involving the harvesting of renewable natural resources of land and water; commercial gathering usually implies forestry and fishing industries
Down
- 2. the migratory but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent upon natural forage
- 3. those parts of the economy involved in the processing of raw materials derived from primary activities; includes manufacturing, construction, power generation
- 4. the term suggesting that great increase in food production, primarily in subtropical areas, accomplished through the introduction of very high-yielding grain crops, particularly wheat and rice
- 6. the application of large amounts of capital and/ or labor per unit of cultivated land to increase output, has subsistence orientation
- 7. those part of the economy that fulfill the exchange function and that provide market availability of commodities; includes wholesale and retail trade and associated transportation, government, and information services
- 9. the application of large amounts of capital and/ or labor per unit of cultivated land to increase output, has commercial orientation
- 10. a crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important than capital or labor inputs in determining output, may has commercial orientation
- 14. primary activities involving the mining and quarrying of nonrenewable metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources
- 15. a large business organization operating in at least two seperate national economies
- 17. that employement concerned with research, with the gathering or disseminating of information, and with administration, including administration of the other economic activity levels
- 19. the spatial grouping of people or activities for mutual benefit
- 21. the concentric zonal pattern of agricultual land use around a single marker center proposed in the von Thunen model
- 25. a large agricultural holding, frequently foreign-owned, devoted to the production of a single export crop