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Movement in Geography - Coggle Diagram
Movement in Geography
Globalization Trade
Trade - The action of buying
and selling goods and
services between countries.
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Fairtrade - Fairtrade is trading between companies in developed countries and producers in developing countries in which fair prices are paid to the producers.
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Globalization - This is how countries and people of the world interact and integrate. The interaction between different regions and people.
Global Supply Chain - Global supply chain is where people make different parts in different places for one product. Example: Avengers: Infinity Wars was filmed in different parts of the world and then all of it was put together.
Why do we trade?
Scarcity - This means that there is not enough stuff produced in a single place. This is a factor for trading between countries.
Specialization - A country focuses on making one product. This is usually the product they make best. This is another factor of trading.
Comparative Advantage - The ability of an individual or group to carry out a particular economic activity (such as making a specific product) more efficiently than another activity. Example: The United States specializes in the production of weapons as they have the resources and they are good at it. This is a factor for trading.
Capital/Investment - This is the wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization and is available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing in other companies. The action or process of investing money for profit or material result is called investments.
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Urbanization
Types of Areas
Suburban - A suburban area is a residential area outside a very densely populated urban. They have ok infrastructure, better than rural areas infrastructure but it could be improved. Suburban areas do not stray too far from urban areas.
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Rural - Rural or countryside areas are areas that are located outside of towns and cities. Rural areas don’t have much people or infrastructure as they are located away from urban populations, Usually, people leave rural areas to go to urban areas.
Rural to urban migration: pull factors - People are pulled towards urban areas from rural areas because there are more economic opportunities (more jobs), family ties, and excitement, particularly for young people.
Rural to urban migration: push factors - People are pushed out of rural areas to urban areas because of a lack of economic opportunities (no jobs), a lack of a health care system, and a lack of education systems.
Brain Drain - A brain drain is where more educated people or people who leave to find more opportunities leave a rural area.
Infrastructure - This is a city with a population that is greater than 10 million people (aka Megalopolis). Example: New York City is a megacity. (18 million people)
Creative Destruction - This is the process of renovating or improving a district so that it conforms to middle-class taste
Per Capita - Per capita definition is per person. Trading between countries throughout the world affects the GDP which could affect the amount of money, goods or services per capita.
Carrying Capacity - The carrying capacity the number of people in an environment can support. The carrying capacity needs to be planned and organized in order to have good infrastructure.
Migration
Immigrant - A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Many immigrants come from Syria and South Africa.
Documented Immigrant - People that are foreign-born people who are legally admitted to a country.
Undocumented Immigrant - People who have illegally immigrated. This means they have not followed immigration laws.
Refugee - Someone who flees their own country due to a fear of persecution because of the person's religion, race, culture, views (political), and/or social groups. A refugee has fear for their life which is the main reason to flee their country. There are international laws around the world that protect the rights and have certain laws for refugees. For example, refugees have the right to stay with their families. They are also not forced back into the country that they fled from.
UNHRC - An international organization responsible for the protection of refugees worldwide that was established by the United Nations
Syria - A country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon to the southwest, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. Many refugees come from Syria due to the Arab Springs.
Arab Spring - A series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s
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Asylum - When people flee their countries as political refugees because they no longer feel safe, they go to countries that will provide asylum, which is the protection granted by a nation to the political refugee.