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43 Cards in this Set
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Most forms of modern agriculture has led to a net increase in soil on farmlands.
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False.
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Domestication of plants and animals is a defining characteristics of which argiuclutal revolution?
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First
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Which of these was NOT a major feature of the 3rd agriculutal Revolution?
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The movement away from communal production with the enclourse of private fields.
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Commodity chain analysis...
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Both b and D.
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Which of the following statements about shifting cultivation is false?
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Shifting culitvation is the same thing as crop rotation.
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Companies that practice flexible specialization...
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often avoid long-term contracts with workers so it is easy to futuRosre them when a more lucrative production locations arises.
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Rostow's model economic development....
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Holds all countries can rach high GDP per capita if they follow the right path.
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The agrarian culture is one (in) which...
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agriculture production is predominant in daily life.
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Which of the following is associated with shifting cultivation?
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Both C and D
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Which of these best descrive some of the main gials of the Fiar trade coffe company Cafe Direct, accordining to the film?
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the ensure that primary producers earn a high price for their coffee beans.
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For the peripheral countries, "dependency" means that they are dependent upon core countries for all the following except...
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labor.
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Which of these grains was not a major focus of the the Green Revolution?
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Millet
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Manufacturing based assemble line techniques and realtively high wages, and reliant upon mass-consumption is know as...
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fordism.
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The WTO has determined that prohibiting GMO food for entering a country is an illegal barrier to trade.
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True
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Gathering and analyzing the market data can be categorized in which sector of economic activities.
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Quaternary
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Plantations-from coffee, cocoa, and tea to rubber, palm oil, and the bananas- typically practice...
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monoculture
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In the commodity chain of "free trade" coffee, who earns the lowest share of the price of coffee?
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primary sector.
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As part of both the first agiruclutral revolution and the green revolution, humans modified plants genetics by selecting cultivars for desired traits.
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True.
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No country that collects data on woemne has a Gender Empowerment Index of 1 or greater. In other words, in no country is women's status equal to or grater than that of mens.
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True.
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Which of the following was NOt one of the primary or secondary heaths of the First Agircultural Revoltion?
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Western Europe.
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Global societies are ______.
And these ____________ are __________. |
interdependent; interdepences uneven
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What does the periphery/semi-periphery depend on the core for?
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for investment, technology, imports.
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What does the core/semi-perphery depend the periphery for?
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inexpensive labor, production conditions (laws/regulations in other areas).
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What is an example of the unevenness at different scales?
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The Chipapas is a small ton where children are more liekly to die at a young age because of environmental, poor access to clen water issues compared to Mexico City.
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What is the primary sector?
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direct harvest/extraction of natural resources.
EX:picking the tomatoes |
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What is the secondary sector?
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Transforming the raw materials through manufactoring.
EX: factory of producing the tomatoes |
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What is the tertiary sector?
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sale and exchange of goods.
includes everything from housekeeping to advertising. |
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What is the quaternary sector?
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handling processing the information.
EX: stock exchange and education. |
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What is economic structure?
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the relative share of each kind of activity in a region, measured by percent of the labor force.
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What degree does US have the most of? least?
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Most: tertiary,
Least: primary |
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What is the general idea for the breakdown of divisions of labor for the periphery?
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considerable amount of 1 degree, some 2 degree.
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What is the general idea for the breakdown of divisions of labor for the SP?
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1 degree, lots of 2 degree, and growing 3 degree.
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What is the general idea for the breakdown of divisions of labor for the core?
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significant 2 degree, large 3 degree, and growing 4.
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Define Value added
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the process of the net output of secondary industries.
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What are the 7 biggest manufactoring economies?
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China, South Korea, mexico, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Thailand
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Degree 2 workers earn less than _____
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Core workers.
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What does 1degree wage looks like?
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a small price of the final good.
and it depends on cost inputs. |
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Where is majority of the degree 1 work?
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africa, latin america, and asia.
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Globalization has ________ and ________.
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winners and losers.
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What is fair trade movement trying to do?
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share some if those who usually get the lowest share of teh final products; properly value primary labor.
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What does a Gap sweatshirt go through to get value add?
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multiple sectors add different value. but lots of value is added in the 3rd and 4th sector.
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Why isnt the boom in coffee shop immediately beneficial to primary producers? What are the ironies of the global market?
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Major price difference between 1 degrees and the other degrees. Value added for retailors
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How do the consumers view the Machu Picchu brand? Why is not charity?
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They thought the packaging was expensive. it is not charity because the wage increas ise for primary producers; the others are still making money.
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