Across
- 4. those parts of the economy involved in making natural resources available for use or further processing; includes mining, agriculture, forestry, fishing or hunting, grazing
- 7. 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.
- 8. a region's profit potential for a productive activity compared to alternative areas of production of the same good or to alternate uses of the region's resources
- 13. a large agricultural holding, frequently foreign-owned, devoted to the production of a single export crop
- 16. the production of goods and services for exchange in competitive markets where price and availability are determined by supply and demand forces
- 17. the maximum rate at which a renewable resources can be exploited without impairing its ability to be renewed or replenished
- 18. 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
- 20. that employment concerned with research, with the gathering or dissmeminating of information, with administration, including administration of the other economic activity levels
- 21. the savings to an individual enterprise that result from spatial association with other similar economic activities
- 22. 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
- 23. those parts 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
- 24. the migratory but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent upon natural forage
Down
- 1. the spatial grouping of people or activities for mutual benefit
- 2. in economic geography, the costs of production inputs that 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
- 3. crop production of forest clearings kept in cultivation until their quickly declining fertility is lost. cleared plots are then abandoned and new sites are prepared
- 5. a crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important than capital or labor inputs in determining output. may have either commercial or subsistence orientation
- 6. primary activities involving the harvesting of renewable resources of land or water; commercial gathering usually implies forestry and fishing industries
- 9. a crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important than capital or labor inputs in determining output. may have either commercial or subsistence orientation
- 10. primary activities involving the mining and quarrying of nonrenewable metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources
- 11. the study of how people earn a living, how livelihood systems vary by area, and how economic activities are spatially interrelated and linked
- 12. 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
- 14. a large business organization operating in at least two separate national economies
- 15. the concentric zonal pattern of agricultural land use around a single market center proposed in the von thunen model
- 19. those parts of the economy involved in the processing of raw materials derived from primary activities; includes manufacturing, construction, power generation