AP Human Unit 6 Vobaulary

The spatial grouping of people or activities for mutual benefit; the concentration of productive enterprises for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources and market access.

• Agglomeration

• Assembly line production

• Outsourcing

• Technology transfer

Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks.

• Assembly line production

• Break-of-bulk point

• Labor-intensive industry

• Multiplier effect

Different land users are prepared to pay different amounts, the bid rents, for locations at various distances from the city center.

• Bid rent theory

• Dependency theory

• Industrial location theory

• World Systems Theory

A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another

• Break-of-bulk point

• Fixed costs

• Threshold/range

• Variable costs

If the finished product costs more to transport, the firm will be located closer to the market to reduce cost.

• bulk gaining

• bulk reducing

• Rimland

• Industrial location theory

If the finished product costs less to transport, the firm will be located closer to the raw materials to reduce cost.

• bulk gaining

• bulk reducing

• Rimland

• Industrial location theory

Refers to the positive or negative aspects of each type of transportation.

• Carrier efficiency

• Commodity chain

• Footloose industry

• Least-cost location

The principle that an area produces the items for which it has the greatest ratio of advantage or the least ratio of disadvantage in comparison to other area, assuming free trade exists.

• Comparative advantage

• Complementarity

• Foreign direct investment (FDI)

• Maquiladora

Describes the pattern of distribution of the MDCs and LDCs. When the earth is viewed from the North Pole (azimuthal), the MDCs are clustered near the center of the map (core) while the LDCs are near the edges (periphery).

• Core-periphery model

• Labor-intensive industry

• Industrial location theory

• Dependency theory

The process of deconcentration; the location of industrial or other activities away from established agglomerations in response to growing costs of congestion, competition, and regulation.

• Deglomeration

• Agglomeration

• International division of labor

• Industrial location theory