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What is intensive subsistence agriculture?
This type of agriculture is the most practiced in the world.
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What is cheap labor and cheap source of iron ore available world wide?
These are the factors that are causing the steel industry to leave the United States
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What is the core?
This is the category according to Wallerstein that the United States and Germany would be in.
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What is a basic industry?
This type of industry sells things to people in the settlement and outside of the settlement.
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What is movement to commercial farming?
This is the current trend for agriculture in the world.
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What is LDC's?
Subsistence agriculture is primarily practiced where.
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What is located near universities, high quality of life, access to capital and entrepreneurs, high quality transportation and communication?
List two out of four characteristics in the location of high tech industries in the US.
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What is Alaska?
This is a state in the United States that would be considered a periphery state.
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What is the primate city rule?
This is the rule that applies to settlements in which the largest city is more than twice the size of the second largest.
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What is highly skilled workers to produce garments for the fashion industry?
This is why upscale textile production is in the Northeast of the US.
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What is to feed themselves and their family?
The primary function of subsistence agriculture is.
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What is coal?
This is the major source of fuel of the industrial revolution?
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What is semi-periphery?
This is the category according to Wallerstein that China and Singapore would be in.
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What is Los Angeles?
This is the largest city on the west coast of the United States.
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What is industrial jobs have left the region?
The role strong unions played in the North
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What is commercial is for money, subsistence for survival and sustainable?
The main difference between commercial and subsistence agriculture is.
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What is contagious, hierarchical, stimulus?
List two ways that the Industrial Rev diffused throughout the world.
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What is the evolution of multiple cores?
This is the eventual outcome of Wallerstein's world system analysis.
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What is a Flat plane and no physical barriers
Population and income is evenly distributed Uniform transportation systems Same soil in every settlement?
List two of the assumptions of the Christaller's Central Place Theory.
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What is India?
This is the country that many high tech jobs have been outsourced from the US to.
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What is the use of machinery, mass production, small percentage of people in business are actually engaged in agriculture, food consumed off of the farm.
What are the characteristics of commercial agriculture?
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What is• Hong Kong – Guangdong – Southern.
Shanghai – Chang – East. Beijing – North Shenyang – Northeast.
List two of the industrial regions in China.
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What is Low life expectancy
High dependency ratio High Crude Birth Rate High natural increase rate?
These are the demographic characteristics of a LDC.
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What isServices are clustered in the primate city, services are not evenly distributed in the country, people are almost forced to move to the primate city, smaller cities have trouble competing?
LIst two of the concerns in LDC's when the rank size rule does not hold true.
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What is devoting more land to food production, increase imports, cultivate land differently to increase yield, identifying new food sources?
List two of four strategies that can be used to improve farming productivity.
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