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1
Rostow's stages of development model predicts each country's economy will progress from
low output to high input
high levels of pollution to efficient resource use
low per capita income to high per capita income/consumption
high consumption to ecological sustainability
2
Deindustrialization has had a dramatic impact on which of the following regions?
Great Plains
Cotton Belt
Sun Belt
Great Lakes
3
What is true regarding women in MDCs as opposed to LDCs?
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
Women are more likely to work in the primary sector in MDCs
4
Special economic zones (SEZs) are most common in which country?
Brazil
China
Russia
Japan
5
The Gender Empowerment Measure
compares the level of development for women globally
combines economic and political indicators of empowerment
takes the HDI and applies it only to women vs the population
compares levels of indicators for females versus males
6
The literacy rate of any country correlates most closely with which of the following?
annual precipitation rates
population density
per capita income
petroleum production
7
The clustering of financial firms on Wall Street in New York is an example of
central place theory
least-cost theory
agglomeration
ancillary industry
8
The value of total output of goods and services in a year in a country is its
value added
productivity index
level of development
gross domestic product
9
The biggest problem in promoting development through the international trade alternative is
Unequal distribution of resources
Increased price of petroleum
Increased demand for many goods
Regional cooperation
10
Niger's economy is mostly limited to
quaternary economic activities
service industries
primary economic activities
manufacturing industries
11
What kind of manufacturing industry is based in homes rather than in factories?
Right to work industry
Cottage industry
Outsourcing industry
Break of bulk industry
12
Situation costs are most critical to a firm that wishes to do what?
Minimize production costs inside the plant
Minimize transportation costs
Avoid collectivization of labor
Find an ideal climate
13
Significant site factors include all but which of the following?
Transportation
Labor
Land
Capital
14
Saudi Arabia has successfully employed the international trade alternative primarily because of
Petroleum reserves
Traditional social customs
Consumer spending
Regional cooperation
15
The Industrial Revolution began
in the 19th Century under Nikola Tesla
in the 18th Century in England
in the 20th Century under Henry Ford
in the 16th Century in Germany
16
Keeping in mind the core-periphery model, which country best exemplifies the core today?
China
Afghanistan
Germany
Brazil
17
Which is the HDI much lower on average because females can't access educational opportunities?
Southeast Asia
Atlantis
Central Asia
Southwest Asia
18
Firms try to build their production facilities to maximize profits and minimize costs. This is:
Communist theory
Least cost theory
Pythagorean theorem
Theory of agglomeration
19
Which of the following is NOT an Asian Tiger?
Hong Kong
Vietnam
Singapore
Taiwan
20
Potato chip production is a good example of what?
A bulk-gaining industry
A bulk-reducing industry
A variable-cost industry
A fixed-cost industry
21
Economic activities that increase and thereby benefit from agglomeration are called
tertiary activities
footloose industries
ancillary activities
quinary industries
22
These take advantage of geographic differences in wages, labor laws, taxes, & natural resources
Agglomerations
Footloose industries
E-businesses
Transnational corporations
23
What country has both the largest coal reserves in the world and most of their power from it?
Russia
China
Mexico
United States
24
The more developed regions of the world include all of the following EXCEPT
Western Europe
Southwest Asia
Eastern Europe
South Pacific
25
In terms of the global economy, which area would be considered the world's resource frontier?
East Asia
Central and Western Europe
Eastern South America
Southwest Asia
26
Which industry is most dependent on low-cost labor?
Steel
Electronics
Textile
Automotive
27
Los Angeles receives goods from Asia via boat to be put on trains and trucks in port. This is:
break-of-bulk point
variable trading point
trade alternative partner
entrepot
28
Mexico's
maquiladoras
are examples of
Ancillary activities
Offshore financial centers
brick-and-mortar businesses
export-processing zones
29
The principal benefit of the self-sufficiency approach is to promote
Balanced growth of all economic sectors
More efficient resources
Global competitiveness for local industries
Unequal distribution of resources
30
In more developed countries, employment is increasing in:
The primary sector
The secondary sector
All three sectors
The tertiary sector
