Ap Human Geography Ch.11
Chapter 11
Vocabulary Relevancies
1. organic agriculture – The return to farming without pesticides; allows small farmers in core countries to compete with agribusiness. When fair trade laws are applied, organic farming in peripheral and semi-peripheral countries can bring wealth into a country by exporting to wealthier nations.
2. primary economic activity – most basic use of the natural environment to sustain human functions. Examples: hunting/gathering, farming, ranching, logging, fishing, mining
3. secondary economic activity – The act of changing a primary product into something new. Examples – wood into furniture; oil into petroleum; fruits and vegetables into canned products; plant components into make-up etc.
4. tertiary economic activity –
Activities that connect producers to consumers. – merchants, retailers, doctors, clerks and secretaries.
Support staff of the community – teachers, doctors, nurses, bankers
5. quaternary economic activity – information creation and transfer; activities that assemble, distribute, and process information; they also manage other business operations. University researchers and investment analysts are examples of quaternary economic activities. 6. quinary economic activity – activities exist as a sub-classification of quaternary activities and involve the highest-level of decision making, such as decisions made by a legislature or a presidential cabinet. High level, government-targeted research is also included int the quinary sector.
7. plant domestication – instead of gathering what was growing, thoughtful creation of fields of a particular plant. First was the purposeful production of root crops in tropical areas, then the seed crops in the river valley civilizations and the Yucatan peninsula.
8. root crops - Crop that is reproduced by cultivating the roots of or the cuttings from the plants. Though potatoes are money -making staple root crops that
Vocabulary Relevancies
1. organic agriculture – The return to farming without pesticides; allows small farmers in core countries to compete with agribusiness. When fair trade laws are applied, organic farming in peripheral and semi-peripheral countries can bring wealth into a country by exporting to wealthier nations.
2. primary economic activity – most basic use of the natural environment to sustain human functions. Examples: hunting/gathering, farming, ranching, logging, fishing, mining
3. secondary economic activity – The act of changing a primary product into something new. Examples – wood into furniture; oil into petroleum; fruits and vegetables into canned products; plant components into make-up etc.
4. tertiary economic activity –
Activities that connect producers to consumers. – merchants, retailers, doctors, clerks and secretaries.
Support staff of the community – teachers, doctors, nurses, bankers
5. quaternary economic activity – information creation and transfer; activities that assemble, distribute, and process information; they also manage other business operations. University researchers and investment analysts are examples of quaternary economic activities. 6. quinary economic activity – activities exist as a sub-classification of quaternary activities and involve the highest-level of decision making, such as decisions made by a legislature or a presidential cabinet. High level, government-targeted research is also included int the quinary sector.
7. plant domestication – instead of gathering what was growing, thoughtful creation of fields of a particular plant. First was the purposeful production of root crops in tropical areas, then the seed crops in the river valley civilizations and the Yucatan peninsula.
8. root crops - Crop that is reproduced by cultivating the roots of or the cuttings from the plants. Though potatoes are money -making staple root crops that