QCapp AP Human Geography UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Industrial Revolution - 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 - 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 - 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