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16 Cards in this Set
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Biodiversity
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The total variety of plant & animal species in a particular place
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Deforestation
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The clearing and destruction of forests to harvest wood for consumption, clear land for agricultural uses, and make way for expanding settlement frontiers
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Global Warming
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Theorythat the Earth is gradually warming as a result of an enhanced greenhouse effect in the Earth's atomosphere caused by ever-increasing amounts of carbon produced by various human activities
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Break-of-Bulk Point
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A location along a transport route where goods must be tansferred from one carrier to another. In a port, the cargoes of oceangoing ships are unloaded and put on trains, trucks, or perhaps smaller riverboats for inland distribution
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Fordist
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A highly organized and specialized system for organizing industrial production and labor. Named after automobile producer Hengry Ford, production features assembly-line production of standardized components for mass consumption
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Industrial Revolution
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The term applied to the social and economic changes in agriculture, commerce and manufacturing that resulted from technological innovations and specialization in late-eitheenth-century Europe
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Economic Activity:
Minning |
Primary
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Economic Activity:
Adding Value |
Secondary
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Economic Value:
Services |
Teriary
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Cartel
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Group of producers set price & amount produced
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Maquiledoras
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Low wages & lack of environment regulations
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OPEC
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11 countries control 60% worlds oil. Ex. Indonesia & Iran.
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Fordism
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Produce an assembly line in standardized form (cookie cutter mold)
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NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
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allows movement of goods & capital
US-Canada-Mexico |
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Aral Sea
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Kazikistan vs. Uzbeckistan
devistation = bad planning Streams that fed this large body of water were diverted to irrigate the surrounding desert. Heavy use of chemical pesticide ruined the groundwater below. In the meantime the Aral Sea began to dry up. |
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Grand Antola Project (GAP)
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Tensions w/ Syria & Iraq
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