AP Human Geography Unit 8: Industry and Services

The US Gulf Coast has become an important industrial area because of:

The current volume of goods moving throughout the global system would be impossible w/o

This transportation is affected by weather conflict, rapid delivery & need of break of bulk pt?

All aspects of production in one area & cost saving over cottage industries describes

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the post-Fordist world economic system?

LDCs specialize in what two types of global business services?

Connections are important to explain why a place is suitable for industry: Define connections

The relocation of industry to cities like Paris and London would not have been possible without

New U.S. automobile assembly plants have been built in the:

The Ruhr industrial area is connected to its ports by

During the Indus. Rev, England held a monopoly over products that were in world demand and:

In which major world manufacturing country does industry NOT lie near sources of raw material

23 US states have so-called "right-to-work" laws that:

Industrialization occurred from France through Germany to Czech Rep and Poland because it near

New York City with its great ports, is called a break of bulk location because:

Central Europe offers an attractive combination of important site and situation factors:

According to Weber, what is most likely to be true regarding a bulk gaining industry?

The largest city has 1,000,000 people & the 2nd largest has 200,000 people, the country follows

Mexico's maquiladora plants have an advantage of proximity to U.S. markets

Honda's (bulk-gaining) most important factor when selecting a plant location in the US was:

A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found close together is what settlement

Significant site factors include all but which of the following?

Which of these industries is most dependent on low-cost labor?

According to Weber, this is the most important determination of regional industrial location

Technopoles, a collection of high-tech industries forming a high tech corridor, aren't found in

Which of the following is NOT associated with core production processes?

Britain contains which 3 things that gave them an advantage in development of industry?

Steel production has declined during 1980-2000's most rapidly in:

After the Northeast, the 2nd largest industrial region in the US is:

Mass production of standardized goods using assembly line techniques is referred to as

Industrial areas outside North America and Europe have become important in recent years because

3/4 of the world's industrial production is concentrated in 4 regions. Which is NOT a region:

Mexico is to Maquiladors as ___ is to ____.

Maps of Pakistan & Brazil show that when govern'ts established new capitals they moved from

Hotelling's location analysis emphasized the role of

Which production is more likely to be located in MDCs because of the market?

Following rank-size rule, the largest city has 1 mill. people, how many are in 5th largest city

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of: