GEOG 1213 Students
Note the following:

1. The following terms are from your textbook, Economic Geography. Others may be added from lectures on Monday, Oct. 13. The exam will be on Wed., Oct. 15.
2. The exam will be short answer essay, identification, and graph interpretation. Note that the reading assignment for the exam is from the beginning of the textbook to page 142.
3. Be familiar with the significance of the following terms in economic geography. Be able to explain the diagrams from your text which are listed below.

• types of economic activity (Fig. 1.3)
• location theory
• systematic vs. regional approaches in economic geography
• behavioral focus in economic geography
• applied geography
• nodal region
• hierarchies in an economic system
• pattern(s) in economic geography
• locational inertia
• subsistence (economic) state
• Agricultural Revolution
• Demographic Transition (Fig. 2.3)
• post-industrial economy
• the theory of Thomas Malthus
• Green Revolution
• structural change in an economic system
• Rostow's stages of development
• internal growth theory
• export base
• economies of scale
• regional specialization
• Figure 3.7 on trade area relationships
• growth pole theory
• key industry
• trickle-down processes
• Circular and Cumulative Causation (Fig. 3.11)
• multiplier effect
• threshold population and range of a good
• spatial interaction
• port hinterland
• break of bulk point
• connectivity
• Regional Hub cities (Fifth order places. See example of Atlanta (p. 93)
• time-space convergence
• transport eras
• gateway cities
• terminal costs
• Figs. 5.5, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, and 5.13
• Pittsburgh Plus
• physical distribution costs
• law of comparative advantage
• agglomeration economies
• economies of scale, diseconomies, localization economies, urbanization economies, communication economies
• basic/non-basic activities