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A snowballing geographical process by which secondary and service industrial activities become clustered in cities and compact industrial regions in order to share infrastructure and markets.

• agglomeration

• deglomeration

• supranationalism

• syncretism

Model that argues the more developed countries exploit poorer, less developed countries for their resources, etc. but that these poorer, less developed countries cannot survive without being exploited.

• Christaller's theory

• least cost theory

• bid-rent theory

• core-periphery model

A practice used by companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to outside suppliers rather than completing it internally as an effective cost-saving strategy when used properly. It is sometimes more affordable to purchase a good from companies with comparative advantages than it is to produce the good internally.

• outsourcing

• industrialization

• local sourcing

• technopoling

Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border, to take advantage of much lower labor cost in Mexico.

• Technopoles

• Maquiladores

• Telenovelas

• Esperantos

This sector would include the top executives or officials in such fields as government, science, universities, nonprofit, etc.,

• Primary sector

• Quinary sector

• Secondary sector

• Quaternary sector

Specific area within a country in which tax investment incentives are implemented to attract foreign (and domestic) businesses and investment.

• nationalism

• technopoles

• least cost theory

• special economic zone

An industry in which the final product weighs less or compromises a lower volume than the inputs.

• Qutsourcing

• Bulk-reducing industry

• Footloose industry

• Break-of-Bulk point

Prior to the rise of the industrial revolution inGreat Britain, textile were manufactured in small, rural factories creating an industry known as

• cottage inductry

• light industry

• footloose industry

• textile industry

Many corporate headquarters relocated in the USA where products design takes place. The actual manufacturing takes place overseas. What economic activity is conducted at corporate headquarters in this case?

• quaternary

• quinary

• primary

• secondary

Many corporate HQs are located in the US for product design but the actual manufacturing takes place overseas. What type of economic activity related to these corporate HQs takes place in the US?

• secondary

• tertiary

• quinary

• quaternary