ap human geography unit 8 – Flashcards

social and economic change that began in england in the 1760s when the industrial geography of england changed significantly and later diffused to other parts of western europe.in this period of rapid socioeconomic change, machines replaced human labor and new sourcese of inanimate engery were tapped.coal was the leading energy source,fueling the industrial revolution in england's textile-focused industrial explosion

the foundations of a society:urban center, transport networks,communications,engery disrubution systems, farms, factories, mindes, and such facilities as schools, hospitals, postal services, and police and armed forces

model developed by alfred weber according to which the location of manufacturing establishishments is determided by the minimization of three critical expences:labor, transportation, and agglomeration

a logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated.The agricultural location theory contained in the von thunen model is a leading example

economic activity involving the process of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; manufacturing sector

a location along transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another

an urban center with certain attributes that, if augmented by a measure of investment support, will stimulate regional economic development in its hinterland

the term given to sones in northern mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S.market.The low wage workers in the primarily foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished manucatures

the north american free trade agreement which took effect january 1, 1994, creating a free-trade between the united states, canada, and mexico, and mexico

area where economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources fromt he environment-such a mining, fishing,lumberung and expecially agriculture

a model that describes how economic, political, and/or cultural power is patially distributed between dominant core regions, and more marginal or depended semi-peripheral and perpheral regions.the core-periphery model can be applied at a variety of spatial scales

the centers of economic, political, and/ or periphery model can be applied at a variety of spatial scales

a structuralist model that offers a critique of the modernization of development.based on the idea that certain typed of political and economic relations between countries and regions of the world harve created arrangements that both control and limit the extent to which regions can develop

the economic, social, and institutional evolution of national states

the total value of all goods and serviced produced by a country's economy in a given year.It includes all goods and serviced produced by corporations and individuals of a country, whether or not they are located within the country

a model of economic development most clodely associated witht the work of economist Walter Rostow.The modernization modle maintains that all countries go through five interrelated stages of development, which culminate in an economic state of self-sustained economic growth and high levels of cass consumption

the entrenchment of the colonial orded, suuch as trade and investment, under a new guide

the least least powerful regions and therefore are often marginalized or under the control of both semi-peripheral regions and core regions

intermediary regions in terms of the hierarchy of power between core and peripheral regions

a general term for models of economic disparities among countries or regions as the result of historically derived power relations within the global economic system

a highly organized and specialized system for organising industrial production and labor