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AP Human Geo Chapter 10/11 Flashcards

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development

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process of improving the conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology

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developed country

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MDC; has progressed further on the development continuum

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developing country

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LDC; made some progress toward development

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human development index

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measures level of development (high development = 100)
1) decent standard of living
2) access to knowledge
3) long and healthy life
* gap between MDCs and LDCs has shrunk

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Different regions from most developed to least

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1) North America
2) Europe (Russia isn’t as high as rest of Europe but is higher than Asian countries)
3) Latin America
4) East Asia (Japan and South Korea are separate as they are more developed)
5) Southwest Asia and North Africa
6) Central Asia and Southeast Asia
7) South Asia
8) Sub-Saharan Africa
*South Pacific is not listed to highly developed New Zealand and Australia and not so developed islands

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gross national income

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value of output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country
* increased more rapidly in LDCs

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Gross Domestic product

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same as GNI but doesn’t account for money leaving/entering the country
*per capita measures average mean wealth (not distribution)

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purchasing power parity (PPP)

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adjustment to GNI to account for cost differences per country (ex. euro to USD)

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5 sectors of industry

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1) primary sector: extracting raw material through agriculture, mining, etc
2) secondary sector: manufacturers that turn raw materials into products
3) tertiary sector: service industry (ex. sales, banking, etc)
4) quaternary sector: specialized tertiary jobs in knowledge sector (ex. teachers, gov, etc)
5) quintary sector: creation, re-arrangement of new and existing ideas (gold collar); ex. ceos, research scientists, etc.

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productivity

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value of a particular product compared to amount of labor needed to make it (MDCs are more productive since they can make more with less effort)

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value added

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gross value of a product minus costs of raw material and energy

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years of schooling for today’s adults

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number of years that average person 25+ in a country has spent in school (11.5 years in MDCs & 4.7 years in LDCs on average)

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years of schooling for today’s youth

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number of years that the average 5 year old is expected to spend in school (16.3 years in MDCs & 9.3 years in sub-saharan Africa & 10.2 years in South Asia on average)

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pupil/teacher ratio

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number of enrolled students divided by number of teachers

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literacy rate

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percent of country who can read and write

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average life expectancy at birth

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80 years in MDCs, 57 years in LDCs, and 71 years on average globally

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most popular consumer goods around the world

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  • telephones
  • motor-vehicles
  • computers
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inequality adjusted human development index

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modifies HDI to account for inequality within a country
- larger difference between HDI and IHDI = more inequality
- LDCs have larger scores

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gender related development index

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measures gender gap in the level of achievement for the 3 dimensions of the HDI (equal =1)

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gender inequality index

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measures the gender gap in level of achievement in reproductive health, empowerment, and labor market (unequal = 1)

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why does the US have such a high GII?

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  • high adolescent pregnancy rates
  • high child mortality rates
  • low percentage of women in the legislature
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empowerment

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ability of women to achieve improvements in their own status. measured in seats held by women in the legislature and percent of women who have completed secondary school
*Rwanda has most women in congress

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female labor force participation rate

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percent of women with a full time hob outside of the home (higher in MDCs)

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maternal mortality rate

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number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births (higher in LDCs - highest in Sub-Saharan Africa)

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adolescent fertility rate

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number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19

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Wallerstein’s world systems theory (aka core-periphery model)

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division of the world’s countries into a global economic core, semi-periphery, and periphery
- core: dominant capitalist countries that exploit periphery countries for their raw material and labor
- semi-periphery: newly industrialized countries (BRICS)
- periphery: least developed countries exploited by core

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what obstacles impact development in LDCs?

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  • making policies that promote development
  • finding funds to promote development
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self sufficiency path to development

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  • all about keeping things domestic
  • limit imports (tariffs, quotas, need license to buy foreign goods)
  • isolation of local businesses from international corporations
  • equal investment to all sectors of the economy and regions
  • rural wages are similar to urban wages
  • ex. India
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international trade path to development

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  • selling/trading unique goods at high quality for cheap labor
    -increase in trade, faster than wealth
  • sale of raw materials to developed countries = increased funds to LDCs
  • exposure to demands/needs of the markets to keep up with competition
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Rostow’s stages of economic growth

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  • optimistic model of economic growth that assumes all countries will go through 5 stages of development to eventually become an MDC (assumes every country can reach this level)

1) traditional society: limited technology; static society; primary sector; wealth is in military/religion
2) preconditions for takeoff: infrastructure starts being built by the elite; innovative economic activities; investment in agriculture
3) takeoff: secondary sector; industrial revolution; creation of modern institutions
4) drive to maturity: develop a wider industrial/commercial base; technology spreads; specialized labor
5) age of mass consumption: heavy industry shifts to consumer goods; tertiary sector

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4 Asian dragons

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  • South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong
  • lack natural resources
  • focused on producing technology and clothes at low labor costs
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petroleum rich Arabian peninsula states

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  • Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, and Bahrain
  • petroleum is used to finance large scale projects
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world trade organization

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  • 164 members
  • regulation of trade in goods, services, and intellectual property between participating countries by providing a framework for negotiating trade agreements and a dispute resolution process
  • aims to reduce trade barriers
  • criticized for interests of large corporations
  • shows global interdependence
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foreign direct investment

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investment made by foreign company in economy of another country
- only 1/3 went to LDCs

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world bank

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  • reduces poverty through financial assistance
  • biased to MDCs
  • international bank for reconstruction and development (IBRD) gives funds to develop legal and governmental institutions, develop/grow financial institutions, and make infrastructure and social service projects (money comes from sales and bonds to private investors)
  • international development association gives loans to countries too risky for IBRD (money comes form gov)
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international monetary fund

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gives loands to countries with balance of payments used to help rebuild reserves, stabilize currency exchange, and pay for imports
- investment goes to infrastructure
- biased to MDCs

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stimulus stragtegy

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during economic downturn, govs should spend more than taxes and increase infrastructure projects

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austerity strategy

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gov reduce takes and people/businesses must spend tax savings on the economy

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microfinance

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provision of small loans and financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries that can’t obtain loans from commercial banks

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fair trade

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international trade that provides greater equity to workers, small businesses and consumers (1/3 of price goes to producer, fair wages and benefits for employers, and direct connection of costumers and workers)

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cooperative stores

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member owned/governed stores that operate for benefit of its members according to common principles agreed on by international cooperative community

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sustainable development goals

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reduce disparities between LDCs and MDCs

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hearth of modern industry

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UK in the late 1700s
- steam engine was created in 1769

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cottage industry

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home-based manufacturing

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which industries were most impacted by the industrial revolution?

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  • iron
  • transportation (more laborers and shipping)
  • textiles (mechanized)
  • chemicals (could bleach and dye things faster)
  • food processing (canned goods = more factory workers)
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animate power

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power supplied by animals and people

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biomass fuel

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power created from burning raw material or converting them to charcoal, methane, or alcohol
- wood, plant material, animal waste

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fossil fuel

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  • energy source formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago
  • 5/6 of world’s energy comes from coal, petroleum, and natural gas
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industrial regions

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  • North America: used to big on the East Coast US and Southeast Canada, now big in South US and LA and Mexico along the border
  • Europe: 1st to industrialize; major centers in Russia and Germany
  • East Asia: started with Japan, China is the leading manufacturer
  • China, US, and Japan account for 1/2 the world’s industrial output
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situation factors

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transporting material to and from factories (meant to minimize transportation costs)

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site factors

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unique characteristics of a location - Labor: more expensive to manufacture goods in an MDC due to high wages
- Capital: for new industry to expand, people need loans (from MDCs)
- Land: now mostly in rural areas cheap and more space) and by highways

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proximity to inputs

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plants are closer to inputs if cost of transporting raw materials is greater than cost of transporting products to consumers

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proximity to markets

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plants are close to customers if cost of transporting raw material is less than the cost of transporting products to consumers

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non-metallic minerals

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make up 90% of minerals humans use (building stones, gems, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, sulfur)

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metallic minerals

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help fashion machinery, vehicles, etc (good conductors of heat, malleable, ductile)

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ferrous alloys

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contain iron

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nonferrous alloys

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products that don’t contain iron and steel (aluminium, copper, precious metals)

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bulk reducing industry

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inputs weigh more than final products (coal production)
- coal production:
1) mining (bulky)
2) concentration (near mines)
3) smelting (by inputs)
4) refining (near smelters)
5) manufacturing (near markets)

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bulk gaining industry

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makes something that gains volume/weight during production (located by markets)
- ex. beverage bottling

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single market manufacturing

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specialized manufacturing with only 1 or 2 customers (close to customers – ex. zipper makers)

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perishable products

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located close to markets

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difference in transportation costs

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  • shipping: cheapest; slow
  • trucks: short distance; cheap unloading/loading; better for day trips
  • trains: multi-day trips; harder to load/unload (expensive)
  • air: most expensive; used for small bulk, high value items
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break of bulk point

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location where transfer among transportation modes is possible
- cost rises each tie inputs/products are transferred from a mode

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just-in-time delivery

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shipment of parts and materials to arrive at factories moments before they’re needed
- supplies must be close to consumers
- can lead to disruptions (natural hazards, traffic, labor unrest)

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labor intensive industry

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industry where wages and compensation are a high percent of expenses

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where are fossil fuels located?

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  • coal: mid-latitude countries (China = 50%, LDCs = 25%, MDCs = 25%)
  • petroleum: under sea on Persian Gulf and North Sea and areas that used to be underseas (Russia, Saudi Arabia = 1/4 of supply, SW Asia and Central Asia = 50%, MDCs = 25%)
  • natural gas: deposited from sea floor (1/3 in Russia and SW Asia, 1/3 in LDCs, 1/3 in MDCs)
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4 types of energy consumption in the US:

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  • industries (natural gas = 40%, coal = 30%, petroleum)
  • transpiration: petroleum
  • homes: natural gas and coal
  • commercial: same as homes
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who uses more energy, MDCs or LDCs?

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LDCs use more energy, but MDCs use more energy per capita
- China is leader in energy consumption

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OPEC

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help oil rich countries gain control over their oil, led to increased oil prices

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proven resource

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supply of energy remaining in deposits that’ve been discovered

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where are fossil fuel reserves located?

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  • coal: 50% in MDCs, 50% in LDCs (US has 25%)
  • natural gas: less than 10% in MDCs, 25% in Russia, 30% in Iran and Qatar
  • petroleum: LDCs have 87% in SW and Central Asia (Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iran, and Iraq have 2/3)
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potential reserve

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supply deposits that are undiscovered but though to exist

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unconventional resource

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lack economically and environmentally feasible extraction methods
- oil sands: covered in tar (Canada, Venezuela, Russia)
- hydraulic fracturing: “fracking”; break rocks to release natural gas

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world oil trade

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  • Russia -> Europe
  • Southwest Asia -> Europe and Japan
  • US and Europe import 50% of their oil
  • Japan imports 90% of its oil
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where is nuclear power used?

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  • 30 countries (11 LDCs, 19 MDCs)
  • 2/3 in MDCs, 1/3 in Europe and 1/3 in North America
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fission

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energy released by splitting uranium atoms in a controlled environment
- results in radioactive waste and melt downs
- waste must be stored for thousands of years
- uranium is not renewable
- Russia and US have most nuclear weapons

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fusion

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fusing hydrogen atoms to form helium (not a thing yet)

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nonrenewable energy

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resources form too slowly that they can’t really be renewed

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renewable energy

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resources with an unlimited supply

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hydroelectric power

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generating electricity from movement of water
- 2nd most popular source of energy after coal (2/3 in MDCs, 1/3 in LDCs)
- big in BRICS

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wind power

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big in US, China, and Europe
- expensive

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geothermal energy

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energy from hot water or steam

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passive solar energy system

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captures energy without using special devices
- prominent with windows and dark substances

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active solar energy system

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collect solar energy and convert it to heat energy or electricity
- direct conversion: solar radiation is captured and converted to electrical energy
- indirect conversion: solar radiation is converted to heat and then electricity

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pollution

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occurs when more waste is added than air, water, land resources can handle

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air pollution

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concentration of trace substances at a greater level that occurs in average air
- caused by sulfur dioxide, solid particulates, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitro-oxides

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greenhous effect

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increase in earth’s temperature caused by CO2 trapping radiation emitted by surface

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ozone

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gas that absorbs ultraviolet radiation in stratosphere

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chlorofluorocarbons

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break down ozone layers (global ban on use)

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acid deposition

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accumulation of acids on earth’s surface

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acid precipitation

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conversion of sulfur and nitrogen oxides to acids that come to earth as rain, snow, etc
- damages water, hurts plants and animals, leads to corrosion

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what goes into urban air pollution?

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  • carbon monoxide
  • hydrocarbons
  • photo-chemical smog
    particulates
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non-consumptive water usage

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use of water that’s returned to nature as a liquid

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consumptive water usage

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water that evaporates rather than returns to nature as a liquid
- US has highest per capita consumption of water

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biochemical oxygen demand

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amount of oxygen aquatic bacteria need to decompose a given amount of organic waste

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point source pollution

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  • enters a body of water at a specific location
  • small and easier to control
  • water-using manufacturers: factories and power plants use water to cool machines (lots of waste water)
  • municipal sewage: lack of sewage results in untreated water going to drinking water
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nonpoint source pollution

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  • comes from a large, diffuse area
  • comes from agriculture (fertilizers/pesticides)
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where does the most trash come from?

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residents

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sanitary landfill

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  • most common place for disposal of solid waste in the US
  • great pacific garbage patch is largest landfill in the world
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new international division labor

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selective transfer of some jobs to developing countries

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outsourcing

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turning over responsibility for production to indepedent suppliers

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vertical integration

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a company control all phases of a complex production process
- at odds with outsourcing as it is more traditional, but is more expensive

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maquilladoras

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mexican plants by US border (mexico has cheap labor and few labor regulations, making it appealing to US through NAFTA)

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BRICS

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Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

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right to work

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law requiring factories to maintain an open shop (company and unions can’t make joining a union a mandatory part of the contract)

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convergence regions

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Eastern and Southern Europe where income is below Europe’s average

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competitive and employment regions

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traditional core manufacturing areas with job loss

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territorial cooperation regions

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near EU and neighbors’ borders

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which country in Europe is leading in economic growth?

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spain

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fordist production

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mass production; workers perform one specific task repeatedly

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post-fordist production

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lean and flexible production
- teams
- problem solving
- leveling (every worker is alike)
- productivity

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recycling

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separation, collection, processing, marketing and reuse of unwanted materials

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remanufacturing

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rebuilding of a product to specifications of original manufacturer using old and new material
- paper mills, steel mills, plastic converters, iron and stool foundries

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which countries have the highest and lowest HDI?

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  • Switzerland has the highest
  • South Sudan has the lowest
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dependency theory

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the notion that resources flow from a periphery of poor and underdeveloped states to a core of wealthy states

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commodity dependence

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a country is considered to be dependent on commodity exports when commodities are the majority of its exports. The combination of a high concentration of exports and the large share of commodities in those exports is often linked to underdevelopment.

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complementarity

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two places are said to exhibit a degree of complementary if each offers something to the other that is needs or wants

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comparative advantage

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the ability of one country to make a certain product more efficiently than another product

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free trade

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no restrictions on imports or exports such as tariffs or import quotas (good for MDCs)

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trade agreements

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  • USMCA
  • EU
  • WTO
  • Mercosur
  • OPEC
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special economic zones

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area of a country where business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. They have goals to get business to invest in that area due to lower taxes, less regulations, etc.

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free trade zones

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duty free areas offering warehousing, storage, and distribution facilities for trade, transshipment, and re-export operations

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export processing zones

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officially designated for manufacturing, often have accessible distribution facilities, lax environmental restrictions, and attractive tax exemptions in order to attract foreign corporations

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least cost theory

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firms locate their production facilities in the place that minimizes transportation costs, agglomeration costs, and labor costs

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agglomeration

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many companies from the same industry come together in a collectivly small area to draw from the same set of collective resources

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deglomeration

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when firms leave an agglomerated region to start up in a distant, new place

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footloose firms

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industries that have no real inclination to be located close to either raw material or primary markets, since their products are so lightweight and valuable (diamonds)

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brown fields

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abandoned land, previously used for industrial purposes

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multiplier effect

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new injections of money into the economy lead to more spending, which leads to more injection

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technopoles/growth poles

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the concentration of highly innovative and technically advanced industries that stimulate economic development in linked businesses and idustries

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