Development & Industry Vocabulary Terms (Chapter 10 & 12)
AP Human Geography

  1. agricultural labor force - Where in the world is the majority of the labor force involved in agriculture? How much of the developed world is involved in agriculture?
  2. Calorie consumption -What is average calorie consumption for the developed world versus the developing world?
  3. Core-periphery model -
  4. Cultural convergence -
  5. Dependency theory -
  6. Dependency ratio-
  7. Development-
  8. Energy consumption - How does energy consumption in the United States compare to energy consumption in China? India? Developing world?
  9. Foreign direct investment -
  10. Gender –
  11. Gross domestic product (GDP) -
  12. Gross national product (GNP) –
  13. Human Development Index -
  14. Ladder of development -
  15. Less developed country (LDC) -
  16. Measures of development - List the main ways to measure a country’s level of development.
  17. Neocolonialism -
  18. Purchasing power parity (PPP) -
  19. Rostow, W. W. -
  20. “Stages of Growth” model –
  1. Technology gap -
  2. Technology transfer –
  3. Third World -
  4. Second World -
  5. First World -
  6. World Systems Theory -
  7. acid rain -
  8. agglomeration -
  9. agglomeration economies -
  10. air pollution - Where in the world is air pollution a major environmental problem? Why?
  1. aluminum industry (factors of production, location)-
  2. Bid Rent Theory -
  3. break-of-bulk point -
  4. Canadian industrial heartland -
  5. commodity chain -
  6. comparative advantage -
  7. circular and cumulative causation -
  8. deglomeration-
  9. deindustrialization -
  10. economic base -
  11. economies of scale -
  12. ecotourism -
  13. energy types - renewable: hydropower, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, biofuels, wave/ tidal; nonrenewable: coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear (some classify as renewable?)
  14. entrepót–
  1. export processing zones -
  2. fixed costs -
  3. footloose industry -.
  4. Fordism -.
  5. Four Tigers -
  6. Greenhouse effect -
  7. growth poles -
  8. Heartland / Rimland Theory -
  9. industrial regions - 1., 2., 3., and 4.
  10. Industrial Revolution -
  11. infrastructure - (or fixed social capital)
  12. international division of labor -
  13. international organization -
  14. “Just in time” manufacturing -
  15. Labor-intensive industry -
  16. Least-cost Location Theory–
  1. agglomeration -
  2. Major manufacturing regions - 1., 2., 3., and 4.
  3. Manufacturing export zones -
  4. Manufacturing/warehouse location considerations: 1., 2., 3., 4,5,6,7,
  5. Maquiladora -
  6. Market -
  7. Market area (hinterland) -
  8. Market orientation -
  9. Material orientation -
  10. Multiplier effect -
  11. NAFTA-
  12. Outsourcing -
  13. Ozone (depletion) -
  14. Postindustrial -
  15. Resource -
  16. Resource dispute -
  17. Silicon Valley -
  18. Specialized Economic Zones -
  19. High-Technology corridors -
  20. Substitution principle -
  21. Threshold / range -
  22. Time-space compression -
  23. Time-space convergence -
  24. Topocide -
  25. Trade-route site -
  26. Transnational corporation -
  27. Ubiquitous industry -
  28. Variable costs -
  29. Weber, Alfred -
  30. World cities -
  31. Fourth-level cities (in the USA)–
  32. Resort–
  33. Manufacturing - Buffalo, Chattanooga, Erie, and Rockford; clustered mostly in the old northeastern manufacturing belt.
  34. Industrial and Military - Huntsville, Newport News, San Diego; clustered mostly in the South and West
  35. Mining - Charleston (West Virginia) and Duluth; located in mining areas.