AP Human Geography Unit 7

Shopping districts are an example of:

• urbanization.

• deglomeration.

• agglomeration.

• cumulative causation.

• gentrification.

Created by Wallerstein to show that the world is interconnected and that we are all interdependent on each other.  Divides us into three tiers of economic prosperity (Core, Semi-Periphery, Periphery).

• Dependency Theory
• Neo liberal counterrevolution
• structural adjustment loan
• World Systems theory

Newly industrializing countries (NICs) like Brazil and Mexico are considered part of the 

• Core
• Periphery
• Semi-Periphery
• External

Rostaow's stages of development fail account for which of the following?

• all countries will eventually pass through each of the five stage stages of economic development

• the colonial legacy will impede a country's economic growth

• countries might not pass through each of the stages in a linear manner,

• deindustrialization is accounted for in the fifth and final stage.

A factory process transforming raw corn into processed baby food falls into which economic sector?

• Primary

• Secondary

• Tertiary

• Quarternary

The United Nations created these to help reduce disparities between developed and developing countries

• Sustainability growth ideas

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Sucky Ideas that don't fix much

Alfred Weber's least cost theory takes into account all of the following EXCEPT

• locating markets close to raw materials

• transportation costs

• weight of raw materials

• consumer demand for the finished product

Whose development model consists of a 5 stage process that countries go through as they develop economically?

• Losch 
• Rostow 
• Wallerstein 
• Weber

The Maquiladoras of northern Mexico are

• manufacturing outsourcing plants

• border squatter settlements

• commercial produce farms

• illegal migrant camps

Maquiladoras are

• US workers that move to other countries for jobs

• Mexican factories on the US border that are owned and operated by US companies

• Mexican workers who enter the US legally on a work visa

• Mexican and American workers who migrate to Canada for higher paying jobs