Development, More Developed Country (MDC), Less Developed Country (LDC)

AP Human Geography M/Cs Test: 4/8 (Tues)

Chapter 9 & 11Exam Study GuideFRQs Test: 4/9 (Wed)

VOCABULARY:

Development, more developed country (MDC), less developed country (LDC),

Human Development Index (HDI), gross domestic product, primary sector, secondary

sector, tertiary sector, quaternary sector, productivity, value added, literacy rate, Gender-Related Development Index (GDI), Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), World Trade Organization (WTO),

foreign direct investment (FDI), transnational corporation, The World Bank, The IMF, fair trade,

structural adjustment program, Rostow’s Development Model, Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), sustainable development, the Four Asian Dragons.

Maquiladora, Industrial Revolution, cottage industry, situation factors, inputs, bulk-reducing industry, bulk-gaining industry, break-of-bulk point, site factors, labor-intensive industry, textiles, capital, right-to-work laws, new international division of labor, outsourcing, Fordist production, post-Fordist production, agglomeration, deindustrialization, economies of scale, ecotourism, infrastructure, footloose industry, Alfred Weber’s least cost theory, just-in-time delivery, Bid rent theory, commodity chain, Entrepôt, service, settlement, consumer services, business services, public services, city-states, clustered rural settlement, dispersed rural settlement, enclosure movement, urbanization, central place theory, central place, hinterland/market area, range, threshold, gravity model, rank-size rule, primate city, primate city rule, basic industries, nonbasic industries, economic base

Be familiar with all aspects covered in Chapters9 & 11 including:

Understand the aspects that are factored into the H.D.I. rating of a country and what are some of the economic and demographic elements that could be used to lower or raise the H.D.I. of a country, be aware of specific countries that have a high or low H.D.I. rating and what economic, social and demographic elements show that.

The changing site and situation factors of industry and services. In particular note the advantages and disadvantages of the location of the factory or business.Shifts from secondary sector (industry) to tertiary (services).Deindustrialization.

Explain HDI and what are the components?

Why has gender inequality been a challenge to development?

Why does Southwest Asia have good promise to become more developed?

Explain Rostow’s modernization model. (use diagram)

Explain Wallerstein’s world (economic) system theory

What hemisphere are most MDCs located? LDCs?

For what reasons has development in Sub-Saharan Africa been limited?

What are the positives and negatives in the self-sufficiency model of development?

What are the positives and negatives in the international trade model of development?

What is the philosophy of Fair Trade?

What are barriers to international investment?

What are the three categories of job sectors? Give examples of each.

Chapter 11 – Industry

What are the 4 main industrial regions in the world?

What are the main industrial regions of North America? What do they primarily produce?

What are Europe’s main industrial regions? What do they produce?

What invention in the late 1760s was the most important to the development of factories at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution? Who invented it?

What problem(s) has Japan had to overcome to become a major industrial power?

Where have U.S. automobile assembly plants been built? Why?

What is the industrial importance of the Po river basin?

Explain “agglomeration” and give examples.

What is the order of highest cost to lowest cost forms of transportation for long distances?

What is the difference between the average wage in MDCs and LDCs?

Define “labor intensive industries” and give examples.