QCAPP AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ALL TERMS COMPLETE LATEST UPDATE 2024

QCAPP AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ALL TERMS COMPLETE LATEST UPDATE 2024 Industrial Revolution Correct Answer: the term used for the transformation from an agricultural society to an industrial society as a result of new technologies and facilitated by the availability of natural resources (resulting in factories, mass-produced goods, and assembly lines that replaced handmade goods) industrialization Correct Answer: process that occurs when countries evolve from primarily agricultural producing basic, primary goods to one based on mechanized mass manufacturing of goods (craftsmen are replaced by assembly lines) primary sector Correct Answer: economic activity that involves extracting (raw materials) or harvesting (food) products, e.g. gathering industries (renewable resources): agriculture, forestry, hunting and gathering, fishing, grazing, e.g. extractive industries (nonrenewable resources): mining, quarrying secondary sector Correct Answer: economic activity that processes raw materials and transforms them into finished goods, e.g. manufacturing industries tertiary sector Correct Answer: economic activity that provides services, e.g. health, legal, restaurants, stores quaternary sector Correct Answer: economic activity that involves collecting, processing & manipulation of information & capital, e.g. finance, insurance, computer services quinary sector Correct Answer: economic activity consisting of high-level decision making and advancement of human capacities, e.g. scientific research, higher education, government core Correct Answer: countries where economic power (wealth, innovation, technology) is concentrated that control and benefit from the global market on which periphery and semi-periphery countries depend, e.g. U.S., Western European countries, Canada, Australia, Japan semi-periphery Correct Answer: countries that are industrializing that exert more power in the world economy than the periphery, but are dominated to some degree by the core, e.g. newly industrialized countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Turkey periphery Correct Answer: countries with low levels of economic productivity and a disproportionately small share of the world's wealth with weaker state institutions, lower standards of living and are often dependent on the core, e.g. Sub-Saharan African