Unit 6/7 Development/Industrialization/Urban Use

Question 1

A car factory, tire store, and mechanic shop benefit from being located near one another is based on what concept?

Accepted Answer

Agglomeration

Question 2

What model explains economic connections between countries?

Accepted Answer

Core-Periphery Model

Question 3

Which of the world's five major industrial regions has benefited the most from Special Economic Zones (SEZ)?

Accepted Answer

Eastern China

Question 4

What measures the total goods and services of a country for the year?

Accepted Answer

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Question 5

Which industry is MOST likely to be in a less developed country (LDC)?

Accepted Answer

Textile

Question 6

Mexico City is much larger than the second ranked city. What does this relationship illustrate?

Accepted Answer

a concept of a primate city

Question 7

Which variable is the MOST important according to Weber's Least Cost Theory in determining a location of an industry?

Accepted Answer

Transportation

Question 8

Income Inequality causes

Accepted Answer

Increased tension between the rich and the poor

Question 9

Someone making less than $1.25/day is considered ___________.

Accepted Answer

Extreme Poverty

Question 10

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) involves the United States and what other country?

Accepted Answer

Mexico

Question 11

Which city has traditionally had steel as its basic industry?

Accepted Answer

Pittsburg

Question 12

What is a megalopolis?

Accepted Answer

area where the urbanized area of adjacent cities overlap

Question 13

Maquiladoras are located along the border of United States and Mexico to minimize what type of cost?

Accepted Answer

labor

Question 14

In the Concentric Zone Model, what represents the center of the model?

Accepted Answer

Central Business District (CBD)

Question 15

Which is an example of a secondary economic activity?

Accepted Answer

auto parts manufacturer

Question 16

Area of the United States formerly known as the steel belt, is now known as

Accepted Answer

Rust Belt

Question 17

LDC stands for what?

Accepted Answer

less developed countries

Question 18

Which resource led to the rise of Western Europe as one of the world's economic leading regions?

Accepted Answer

coal

Question 19

Sun Belt is which of the following areas of the United States?

Accepted Answer

South

Question 20

Which region of the world is responsible for majority of the oil?

Accepted Answer

Middle East

Question 21

Where does most the United States population live?

Accepted Answer

Suburbs

Question 22

Which of these countries is considered a CORE country?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 23

What is the role of cities according to Central Place Theory?

Accepted Answer

Providers of good and services

Question 24

What is often found at the center of a Latin American City?

Accepted Answer

central plaza and cathedral

Question 25

Which of these is nonrenewable resources?

Accepted Answer

Crude Oil

Question 26

Term for the minimum # of people needed to support a service

Accepted Answer

threshold

Question 27

Which of the following sectors deals with manufacturing of raw materials?

Accepted Answer

secondary

Question 28

The earliest city locations were dependent on which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Arable land and defensible sites

Question 29

Dependency Theory is what?

Accepted Answer

All of the above are true

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Unit 6/7 Development/Industrialization/Urban Use

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