Unit 7- General Flashcards

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Secondary

A

Factories

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Primary

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Agriculture, mining

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Tertiary

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Services

More people in them over the years

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Quaternary

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Research

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Industrial revolution

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Moved systems to factories allowed things to be massed produced.

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Major manufacturing regions in the world

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NE America
Europe north/west
Eastern Europe
East Asia

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Cottage industry

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Industry in house

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Situation factors

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Involve transporting materials to and from factory

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Site factors

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Result form unique characteristics of a location
Land
Labor
Capital

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Bulk gaining

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Adding to the product

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Bulk reducing

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Taking away from the product

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Transport cheapest to most expensive

A

Ship
Train
Truck
Plane

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Agglomeration

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Crusting of like business to reduce cost

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Break of bulk point

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Is a location where transfer among transportation is possible

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Right to work laws

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Opposite of joining the union and needing to be a part of the union which is closed shop

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Special economic zones

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Areas giving different laws to create an economic center
Hong Kong
Shanghai

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Four tigers

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Aggressive approach to economics
South Korea
Hong Kong
Singapore 
Taiwan
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NAFTA

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North American trade federation administration

Makes sure there are no tariffs among the America’s and that you can open a factory anywhere in the America’s.

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Maquiladoras

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Factories owned by American companies in Mexico on the border. Just out side of just-in time delivery.

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Fordiam

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Assembly line
Lots of parts
Needs lots of space cheaper because you can specialize workers

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Just in time delivery

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Only brings in parts you need more expensive higher quality less space need for parts brings part from one factory in quantized of only what they need to make the product.

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Outsourcing

A

Moving jobs elsewhere

22
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Footloose industry

A

Can be place anywhere

23
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Comparative advantage

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Ability of a company to produce a good at a lower cost

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New international division of labor
Specific regions have become specialized just not contained in the country anymore compete in a global market.
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Central place theory
Market center for the exchange of goods and explains how services are distributed around this central place.
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Range
Maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service
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Threshold
Minimum number of people need to support a service
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Market area analysis
To figure out the optimal location within a market | Best minimal distance with most amount of people.
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Bid rent theory
Price and demand changes as you get closer to the market center.
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Rank sizes rule
Country's lets say 3 largest settlement is 1/3 the population of the largest settlement