Unit 6 Study Guide

1. Literacy Rate
2. Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary, and Quinary
3. Major manufacturing regions of the world
4. Movement of factories to the south in the USA? Why?
5. Center of global finance… city
6. Agglomeration(concentration) of high tech industry
7. Global trends of agriculture
8. Outsourcing
9. Core-Periphery Model
10. Least Developed Countries (LDC’s)
11. Subsistence economy
12. Origins of the Industrial Revolution
13. Importance of coal in IR
14. Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
15. American manufacturing regions
16. Russian manufacturing regions
17. Chinese manufacturing regions
18. Types of factory jobs that are outsourced
19. Early manufacturing in England
20. Fordist and Post-Fordist
21. Largest reserves of petroleum in the world (location)
22. Locations of fossil fuels
23. Space-time compression
24. Wallerstein world systems
25. Modernization
26. Sustainable Development
27. Market oriented products
28. Resourced oriented products
29. Weber’s least cost location theory
30. Intermodal containerization
31. Bulk reducing industry
32. Bulk gaining industry
33. Classical optimal location theory
34. Agglomeration and location theory
35. Know all of Rostow’s stages of development
36. Know HDI or Human Development Index
37. GDP, GNI, GNP
38. Brandt Report
39. Success of Dubai
40. Propulsive industries for the USA in the next 100 years
41. Backwash Effects
42. Just-in-time production
43. Maquiladoras
44. Flexible production
45. Export-Processing Zones (EPZ)
46. Wealth of the world: who is the richest
47. Comparative advantage
48. NAFTA, EU, CARICOM?
49. Renewable resources
50. Globalization
51. Formal and informal sector of the economy

Read Ch 10, 12 and 14 again!