APHG Unit 6 Vocab Review

A company in Europe needs to ship goods to a customer in Africa.

• The goods are loaded into containers and transported by truck to a port in Europe. The containers are then loaded onto a ship for transport to a port in Africa. From there, the containers are transferred to a train or truck for delivery to the customer's location.

• The use of containers allows for seamless transfer between different modes of transport, streamlining the shipping process.

• break-of-bulk point

• intermodal connections

• footloose industries

• Fordism

In the past, coffee beans were often shipped in large sacks.

• When the ship arrived at the port, the sacks of coffee beans would be unloaded. Workers would then divide the coffee beans into smaller bags for distribution to different roasters or retailers. What vocabulary term is exemplified in the process of dividing the large shipment into smaller ones?

• break-of-bulk point

• intermodal connections

• Fordist

• footloose industries

You start an online tutoring business where you meet with your clients over Zoom. What vocabulary term does this best exemplify?

• footloose industry

• agglomeration

• growth pole

• special economic zone (SEZ)

• At one time, some of the World's textile production was concentrated in the large industrial American South, called the like "Cotton Belt." The area had proximity to raw materials (cotton), access to a large labor pool, specialized infrastructure (factories, transportation), and knowledge spillovers and supporting industries (dyeing, machinery).Over time, textile manufacturing has become much more dispersed globally. What vocab term best exemplifies this process?

• deagglomeration

• deindustrialization

• commodity dependence

• multiplier effect

Aisha lives in a small village in rural Bangladesh. She is a skilled weaver but lacks the capital to purchase the high-quality dyes and threads she needs to create her intricate designs. A local organization offers small sums of money, with low interest rates, to aspiring entrepreneurs like Aisha. This money lending allows her to buy the materials, expand her business, and eventually hire other women in her village. What vocab term does this best exemplify?

• microloans

• outsourcing

• Post-Fordism

• absolute advantage

You are great at cake baking but not decorating. Your friend is great at decorating. If you work together, each specializing in your task, you can offer a complete cake-making service, attracting more customers and earning more money than they could individually. What vocab term does this exemplify?

• absolute advantage

• comparative advantage

• complementarity

• international division of labor

Tariffs and free-trade agreements are both examples of what vocabulary term?

• neoliberal policies

• non-governmental organizations

• UN Sustainable Development Goals

• UN Millennium Development Goals

What concept is critical in moving a country from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of Rostow's model?

• foreign direct investment

• television manufacturing

• deindustrialization

• just-in-time delivery

The video game company Awesome Games is headquartered in the United States. They decide to open a new office in Denmark. They hire talented artists in Denmark to design the new character. These artists are employees of Awesome Games, just like the people at their U.S. office. They're just located in a different country. What vocab term does this illustrate?

• offshoring

• outsourcing

• ecotourism

• commodity dependence

GOC is putting on a spring musical so they need costumes. Instead of having teachers or students try to sew all the costumes themselves (which would take a long time!), the school hires a professional costume shop. The costume shop isn't part of the school. It's a separate business that specializes in making costumes. The school pays the costume shop to design and create all the outfits for the play. The school is hiring an outside company to do a specific job. What vocabulary term does this exemplify?

• outsourcing

• offshoring

• foreign direct investment

• sustainable development