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These take advantage of geographic differences in wages, labor laws, taxes, & natural resources
Agglomerations
Footloose industries
E-businesses
Transnational corporations
2
Significant site factors include all but which of the following?
Land
Labor
Capital
Transportation
3
The value of total output of goods and services in a year in a country is its
productivity index
gross domestic product
value added
level of development
4
Deindustrialization has had a dramatic impact on which of the following regions?
Great Lakes
Great Plains
Sun Belt
Cotton Belt
5
In terms of the global economy, which area would be considered the world's resource frontier?
Eastern South America
East Asia
Southwest Asia
Central and Western Europe
6
Potato chip production is a good example of what?
A bulk-reducing industry
A fixed-cost industry
A bulk-gaining industry
A variable-cost industry
7
Firms try to build their production facilities to maximize profits and minimize costs. This is:
Least cost theory
Theory of agglomeration
Communist theory
Pythagorean theorem
8
Special economic zones (SEZs) are most common in which country?
Russia
Japan
Brazil
China
9
What kind of manufacturing industry is based in homes rather than in factories?
Cottage industry
Break of bulk industry
Right to work industry
Outsourcing industry
10
Niger's economy is mostly limited to
service industries
quaternary economic activities
primary economic activities
manufacturing industries
11
Los Angeles receives goods from Asia via boat to be put on trains and trucks in port. This is:
entrepot
break-of-bulk point
trade alternative partner
variable trading point
12
The more developed regions of the world include all of the following EXCEPT
South Pacific
Southwest Asia
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
13
Rostow's stages of development model predicts each country's economy will progress from
high consumption to ecological sustainability
high levels of pollution to efficient resource use
low per capita income to high per capita income/consumption
low output to high input
14
The literacy rate of any country correlates most closely with which of the following?
annual precipitation rates
per capita income
petroleum production
population density
15
Mexico's
maquiladoras
are examples of
export-processing zones
Offshore financial centers
brick-and-mortar businesses
Ancillary activities
16
The clustering of financial firms on Wall Street in New York is an example of
ancillary industry
agglomeration
least-cost theory
central place theory
17
The Gender Empowerment Measure
combines economic and political indicators of empowerment
compares levels of indicators for females versus males
takes the HDI and applies it only to women vs the population
compares the level of development for women globally
18
Which of the following is NOT an Asian Tiger?
Singapore
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Vietnam
19
Keeping in mind the core-periphery model, which country best exemplifies the core today?
Germany
China
Brazil
Afghanistan
20
The biggest problem in promoting development through the international trade alternative is
Increased price of petroleum
Regional cooperation
Unequal distribution of resources
Increased demand for many goods
21
What is true regarding women in MDCs as opposed to LDCs?
Women are more likely to work in the primary sector in MDCs
Women are more likely to participate in government in MDCs
Women are more likely to have multiple children in MDCs
Women do not perform labor in MDCs
22
What country has both the largest coal reserves in the world and most of their power from it?
Russia
Mexico
United States
China
23
Saudi Arabia has successfully employed the international trade alternative primarily because of
Consumer spending
Petroleum reserves
Regional cooperation
Traditional social customs
24
Situation costs are most critical to a firm that wishes to do what?
Find an ideal climate
Avoid collectivization of labor
Minimize production costs inside the plant
Minimize transportation costs
25
In more developed countries, employment is increasing in:
All three sectors
The tertiary sector
The primary sector
The secondary sector
26
Which is the HDI much lower on average because females can't access educational opportunities?
Southeast Asia
Central Asia
Southwest Asia
Atlantis
27
Which industry is most dependent on low-cost labor?
Automotive
Textile
Steel
Electronics
28
The principal benefit of the self-sufficiency approach is to promote
Unequal distribution of resources
Balanced growth of all economic sectors
More efficient resources
Global competitiveness for local industries
29
The Industrial Revolution began
in the 20th Century under Henry Ford
in the 16th Century in Germany
in the 18th Century in England
in the 19th Century under Nikola Tesla
30
Economic activities that increase and thereby benefit from agglomeration are called
ancillary activities
footloose industries
quinary industries
tertiary activities
