APHG Unit 7.4-7.8 Review

Outsourced industrial production in less-developed countries often relies on female labor because:

Mexico's maquiladoras are examples of ___.

Rostow's theory fails to take into account all of the following EXCEPT:

Free-trade zones such as NAFTA are established to increase the ease and volume of international trade by:

The high-tech firms of Silicon Valley in California are clustered together to take advantage of:

The "Age of Mass Consumption" is what stage in the Rostow model?

Economic activities that increase & benefit from agglomerations in certain regions are called:

Which is NOT a characteristic of a periphery country in a capitalist system?

__ Theory claims that prosperity is sustained in the core, but poverty in the periphery.

Economic complementarities between two places tend to:

_ is GNP minus the loss of natural resource capital as a result of productivity.

Core-periphery models are generally based on the idea that:

Rostow's model predicts that each country's economy will progress from:

Gender equity is related to:

It is generally agreed that the current trend in climate change is caused by:

The Gini coefficient measures which economic indicator?

Which of the following has contributed most to the deindustrialization of regions like the English Midlands?

First-tier world cities include:

What's it called when companies try to merge their supply chains to improve efficiencies?

Which of the following pairs is NOT an example of an NIC (newly-industrialized country?)

Conserving resources to meet needs w/out limiting future gen's ability to do the same is called

The Internet is reshaping traditional economic arrangements by:

Wallerstein's theory originated in the ___ and uses the ___ rather than the nation-state as its center of analysis.

The popularity of which of the following is an example of the trend toward ecotourism?

Which of the following sectors of the economy has grown the fastest in the United States since the mid-1970s?

Which of the following has fostered the most growth by eliminating import tariffs between member states?

Which of the following statements best explains a limitation of this political map in showing economic information?

Which of the following best explains a benefit of membership in the European Union?

Which of the following is the primary geographic effect of the globalization of the economy?

Political geographers consider which of the following as the core area of the United States?