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Economics Review Rebecca Angoyar

Economics Review Rebecca Angoyar. Process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology. Development. Provide security and protection for citizens and businesses. Public Services.

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Economics Review Rebecca Angoyar

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  1. Economics ReviewRebecca Angoyar

  2. Process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.

  3. Development

  4. Provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.

  5. Public Services

  6. The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

  7. Range

  8. Nicknamed the “iron horse.” Canals were superseded by this invention. It was invented by two males with the help of the steam engine. Name these two males for extra credit.

  9. Railway System. Created by William Symington and William Murdoch

  10. Families living in close proximity to each other with fields surrounding a collection of houses and farm buildings.

  11. Clustered Rural Settlements

  12. Total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 births in a society.

  13. Infant Mortality Rate

  14. The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services. Name the geographer responsible for this theory for bonus points.

  15. Market Area (Hinterland).Walter Christaller.

  16. A settlement surrounded by fields where people produce food by planting feeds and raising animals rather than hunting and gathering.

  17. Rural Settlements

  18. The minimum number of people needed to support a service.

  19. Threshold

  20. French linear settlenments that were often located along rivers and the strips of land extended back from the water.

  21. Long Lots

  22. These are not necessary for survival. E.g: Cars, entertainment, and telephones.

  23. Nonessential Goods

  24. A study that asses optimal locations for services as well as the comparison data generated by the business to market area population.

  25. Market Area Analysis

  26. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, and assembling raw materials.

  27. Primary Sector

  28. Farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers in settlements.

  29. Dispersed Rural Settlements

  30. Natural Fibers that are combined with chemicals

  31. Synthetic Fibers

  32. Regional economic affiliations which increase economic transaction between member countries. The main affiliations are the Western Hemisphere, Western Europe, and East Asia.

  33. Trading Blocs

  34. Buildings clustered along road, river, or dikes to facilitate communications in long, narrow strips.

  35. Linear Settlements

  36. Theory explaining the distribution of settlements based on the fact that settlements serve as market centers for people living in the surrounding area.

  37. Central Place Theory

  38. A model explaining how the diversely sized settlements and service areas interact with each other.

  39. Gravity Model

  40. Total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society

  41. Crude Birth Rate

  42. The process of consolidating small land holdings into a smaller number of larger farms in Englad during the 18th century.

  43. Enclosure Movement

  44. Transportation, communications, & domestic sources of equipment, tools, & machines needed to build & operate new factories.

  45. Infrastructure

  46. A community’s collection of basic industries

  47. Economic Base

  48. The average number of years a new born infant can expect to live at current mortality levels.

  49. Life Expectancy at birth

  50. Market center for the exchange of goods and services by people from the surrounding area.

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