APHG Unit 7.4-7.8 Review

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

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

Gender equity is related to:

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

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

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

First-tier world cities include:

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

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

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

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

The Gini coefficient measures which economic indicator?

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

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

The Internet is reshaping traditional economic arrangements by:

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

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

Economic complementarities between two places tend to:

Mexico's maquiladoras are examples of ___.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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