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2012
Push/Pull FactorsPush Factors Pull FactorsFactors causing people
to leave a location.WarPovertyUnemploymentHuman Rights AbuseOvercrowdingNatural Disasters
Factors attracting people to a new location.FreedomJobsBetter OpportunitiesEducationBetter Standard of
LivingSecurity
Poverty
Human Rights Abuse
Natural Disasters
Economicsthe way people exchange goods and services.
Economic Systems
Communism Socialism Free Enterprise
Government owns the things that used to make and transport products and there is no property owned privately .
Examples: Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam
Major industries are owned and controlled by the government than by individual people and companies.
Example: Egypt
Private businesses are able to compete with each other with little control by the government.
Example: United States
Free EnterprisePeople freely produce and buy what they wantPrices are set by the consumers and producersPrices are set by the interaction of supply and
demandProducers invest their money in order to make
a profitThere is little government interferenceInefficient producers are eliminated by going
out of businessExamples: United States
Free Enterprise
SocialistGovernment owns some basic industriesPrivate ownership of smaller business is
allowedGovernment provides low-cost or free public
services ( education, healthcare)
Example: Sweden, Venezuela, Egypt
Socialist
CommunistGovernment sets economic goals to be metWorkers labor together and are supposed to
share equally in the fruits of their laborPrivate property ownership is abolished
Example: Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam
TraditionalPeople meet their basic needs much as their
ancestors did.Economic decisions are made on the basic of
customs and beliefs handed down from one generation to another
TraditionalSubsistence Agriculture Cottage IndustriesFarming in which food is
produced by a family just for its own needs
Small scale industries based in the home
Traditional
Economic Activities
Primary ActivityThe portion of the economy concerned
with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface.
Ex: Farming
Primary Activity
Secondary ActivityThe portion of the economy concerned
with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.
Ex: Manufacturing
Secondary Activity
Tertiary ActivityThe portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people, in exchange for payment.
Example: Teachers, Doctors, Cashiers
Tertiary Activity
Quaternary ActivityThe portion of the economy concerned
with information, populated with highly-skilled, well-trained individuals.
Ex: Computer programmers and Management
Quaternary Activity
Measuring Economic DevelopmentPer capita income- average amount of money earned by each person within a country.
Gross national product (GNP)- total value of all goods and services produced by a country over a year.
Urban GeographyUrbanization- dramatic rise in the number of
cities and the changes of lifestyle that follows
MigrationMoving from place to place, and when it refers to a seasonal movement repeated yearly.
Migration
ImmigrationA permanent move of one’s main place of
residence.
EmigrationIs prompted by a variety of factors, as people
leave their country in order to flee a war, find education or job opportunities, or join their family in another land.
Human Development IndexIndicator of level of development for each country, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.
Human Development Index
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)The total value of goods and services created within a country.
Gross National Product (GNP)The total value of goods and services that a country produces in a year.
Infant Mortality RateThe number of infant deaths per 1000.
Literacy RatePercentage of people who can read and write.
Developed CountriesCountries with high levels of industrialization and high standard of living.
Examples: USA, Japan, France
Developed Countries
Developing CountriesCountries with less productive economic than developed countries and low standards of living.
Examples: Mexico, Brazil, South Africa
Developing Countries