World Geography: C8 Global Economics & Global Population
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- Industry that directly use natural resources and raw materials and are found at or near sources of those materials.
- What is a Primary Industry? (79)
- Industries that take goods made in primary industries and change the goods into products that are useful to consumers. Ex. Manufacturing
- What are Secondary Industries? (79)
- Industries that provide services to primary and secondary industries, to communities, and to individual consumers.
- What are Tertiary Industries?
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Industry providing professionals having specialized skills or knowledge.
Examples are Information research, management, and administration. - What are Quaternary Industries? (79(
- A measure of a country's economic development including the total value of goods and services produced inside and outside the country.
- What is the GNP/ Gross National Product? (80)
- The ability to read and write.
- What is Literacy? (80)
- Those things necessary to build and maintain industries and to move goods in and out of a country quickly and easily.
- What is Infrastructure? (80)
- Any electronically transmitted communication important to developing high-technology industries.
- What are Telecommunications? (80)
- Countries that have a good educational system, widely available health care, and many manufacturing and service industries. Per capita GDP's above $20,000.
- What are Developed Countries? (81)
- Assistance given to developing countries through money or services as gifts or loans or to ease human suffering.
- What is Foreign Aid? (81)
- Companies that build factories in many poor countries around the world. Businesses with activities in many countries often seeking raw materials, cheap labor. They provide jobs and transfer technology from the developed countries to developing countries.
- What are Multinational Companies? (81)
- An economic principle under which prices are determined mostly through competition and people are free to choose what and when to sell and buy.
- What is Free Enterprise economy? (81)
- An economic system in which resources, industries, and businesses are owned by private individuals.
- What is Capitalism? (81)
- An economy where consumers determine what is to be bought or sold by buying or not buying certain goods and services.
- What is a Market Economy? (81)
- The government determines wages, the kinds and amounts of goods produced, and the prices of goods.
- What is a Command Economy?
- An economic and political system in which the government owns and controls almost all of the means of production.
- What is Communism? (82)
- The number of births per 1,000 people in a given year.
- What is the Birthrate? (83)
- The number of deaths per 1,000 people in a given year.
- What is the Death Rate? (83)
- Someone who moves out of a country.
- What is an Emigrant?
- Someone who moves "into" a country.
- What is an Immigrant? (84)
- Includes only those goods & services produced inside the country, excluding profits from goods & services produced outside the country.
- What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? (80)
- A country having poor industry, little infrastructure, poor health care, frequent migration of people, large cities with few jobs, poor educational system
- What is a Developing Country? (81)
- The study that emphasizes statistics to look at human population distribution, population density, and trends in population.
- What is the study of Demography? (82)