AP Human Geography
Industrialization and Economic Development
Vocab List
2014
Instructions to the student: Students, you are to complete the included terms in this
fashion in order to receive full credit:
a) Define each term
b) Apply each term or give an example from your text relevant to the term
c) State the page where the definition and the example were found
d) Draw a diagram if necessary to facilitate your understanding of the material
e) Submit work on specified date
f) ** A general consideration** the more work you put into these the better off
you will be. These are designed to be your everyday study material
1. Agglomeration
2. Agglomeration Diseconomies
3. Ancillary Activities
4. Backwash effect
5. Base ratio
6. Basic v. nonbasic sector
7. Brain drain
8. Break of bulk point
9. Brick and mortar business v. E-commerce
10. BRICS
11. Bulk gaining and Bulk reducing industries
12. Call centers
13. Comparative advantage and regionalization
14. Core-periphery model
15. Core, Periphery, semi-periphery
16. Cottage industry
17. Cumulative causation
18. Deglomeration
19. Deindustrialization
20. Digital divide
21. Downfalls of sustainable development
22. Economic development
23. Economic sectors: globally
24. Ecotourism
25. Exporting processing zones (EPZ)
26. Factory location considerations
27. Fast world v. slow world
28. Footloose industry
29. Fordism
30. Foreign direct investment
31. Formal v. Informal economic activities
32. Four tigers
33. GDP, GNP, PPP
34. Gender Equity
35. Geography of Tourism
36. Global Distribution of GNP
37. Globalization
38. Human development Index (HDI)
39. Industrial Revolution
40. Industrialization
41. Industrialization and Urbanization
42. Industrialized countries
43. Infrastructure
44. Intervening opportunities
45. Least-developed countries (LDCs)
46. Localization economies
47. Manufacturing region
48. NAFTA
49. Neocolonialism
50. Net National Product (NPP)
51. Offshore financial centers
52. Outsourcing
53. Problems with Rostow’s model
54. Quaternary and Quinary economic activities
55. Rostow’s development stages
56. Secondary Economic Activities
57. Service offshoring
58. Spatially fixed v. Spatially Variable Costs
59. Specialty goods
60. Sustainable development
61. Tertiary economic activities
62. Transferability
63. Transition of the Economic Global Core over time
64. Transnational Corporations (TNCs)
65. Urbanization Economies
66. US Agglomerations
67. Weber’s Least Cost Theory
68. World Systems theory