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1
Which Asian nation has a per capita GNP above the world average?
Vietnam
South Korea
China
North Korea
2
Which of the following would be the most "footloose" industry?
a prosthetics manufacturing plant
a lawyer's office
an auto repair shop
a brewery
3
People working in the ___________ sector have high levels of knowledge or technical skills.
tertiary
primary
quarternary
secondary
4
____ give loans to poor people, preferably women, to encourage development of small businesses.
Maquiladoras
microcredit programs
structural adjustment loans
NGOs
5
The Rust Belt is to the United States as the ___________ is to China.
Nanchang Region
Shanghai Basin
Northeast District
Kanto Plain
6
In _____ processes in the commodity chain involve technology, education, R&D, and high wages.
value-added
neo-colonial
periphery
core
7
Over 50% of the goods entering Europe come through two ports in
Germany
France
Belgium
The Netherlands
8
The increase in time and cost with distance is referred to as
distribution costs
distance decay
production costs
friction of distance
9
Which is not a factor in calculating transportation costs?
terminal costs
line costs
route availability
route flexibilty
10
The type of manufacturing that is more likely to be located in peripheral countries is
high-tech
capital-intensive
labor-intensive
low-labor needs
11
Modern ideas of development are related to the
Industrial Revolution
Boserup Hypothesis
Agricultural Revolution
Cold War
12
The most important locational factor for the service sector is
market
energy
transportation
labor
13
In peripheral countries it is not unusual for hotels in tourist areas to be owned by
local or regional governments
local owner operators
multinational corporations
workers' cooperatives
14
What did Alfred Weber select as the critical determinant of regional industrial location?
availability of labor
nearby markets
transportation costs
costs of lsabor
15
Which of the following would be a "brick and mortar" industry?
a bakery
a fast-food restaurant
an oil refinery
a call center
16
Fast, flexible production of small lots with outsourcing around the world is referred to as:
globalization
neocolonialism
post-Fordist
Fordist
17
Which country is almost completely dependent upon imported oil/natural gas?
the United Kingdom
the United States
Russia
Japan
18
In which major world manufacturing country does industry
not
lie near sources of raw material?
the United States
Japan
India
China
19
The continuation of economic dependence even after political independence is referred to as
dollarization
neocolonialism
precondition to take-off
paleocolonialism
20
Wallerstein would say that countries being at different stages of development is a function of
resource availability
time
their colonial legacy
the friction of distance
21
When Nigeria, Pakistan & Brazil established post-colonial capitals, they moved away from
coastal port areas
swamps
areas of ethnic discord
deserts
22
Rostow would say that countries being at different stages of development is a function of
resource availability
their colonial legacy
time
the friction of distance
23
Mexico has established EPZs with special arrangements for foreign firms. These are known as
NAFTA zones
gateway cities
Maquiladoras
haciendas
24
Technopoles can be found in a number of countries. Which is
not
a region where they would be?
Australia
North America
East Asia
Africa
25
Which of the following has the highest per capita GNP?
The European Union
Canada
Japan
The United States
26
Hotelling’s theory emphasized the role of
labor
locational interdependence
raw materials
markets
27
Weber underestimated the importance of _____ in his theory of Least Cost Theory
labor
markets
transportation
agglomeration
28
A large component of survival in countries with low per capita GNP is
the informal economy
the sale of resources
foreign aid
tourism
29
"Silicon Valley" is the best known technopole. A similar cluster of high-tech industry
is located around Boston
is centered around Philadelphia
is found in Washington DC
exists near New York City
30
The principal structuralist alternative to Rostow’s model of economic development is known as
the conservative model
the modernization model
dependency theory
the "takeoff" model
31
Subsistence forms of agriculture in peripheral areas produce little in the way of
foodstuffs
grains
root crops
protein
32
If a number of enterprises all develop in, or move to, the same area the factor is called
a focus group
a cluster
ancillary activity
agglomeration
33
GNP measures the total value of goods & services produced by a country. It is standardized by
adjusting for differences in attitude toward “progress.”
being calculated on a per capita basis
being calculated in Euros
measuring the formal as well as informal economy
34
Japan’s dominant industrial region is
Toyama
Kanto Plain
Kitakyushu
Kansai
35
Which would be classified as a "just in time" industry
a lumber yard
a call center
a university
a dairy processing plant
36
Rostow’s model, developed in the early 1960s, was based upon the experience of
Latin American countries
China
Western modernization
financial economists
37
Desertification in Africa is a particular problem as ____ of the continent is arid or semiarid.
33%
25%
67%
50%
38
Which of the classifications of economic activity
must
locate where the resources are found?
primary
quaternary
tertiary
secondary
39
Core area agriculture is characterized by
all of the above
higher levels of farmer education
scientific agronomy
mechanization
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Mass production of standardized goods using assembly line techniques is referred to as
manufacturing
Fordist
mass production
global production