AP Human Geography Unit 8: Industry and Services

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

production should locate near markets to increase profits

Question 2

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

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Africa

Question 3

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

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coal, iron ores, and coastal ports

Question 4

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of:

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economic, political, cultural and infrastructure factors

Question 5

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

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clustered rural

Question 6

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

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primate city

Question 7

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

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Airlines

Question 8

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

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minimizing cost of shipping finished cars to customers

Question 9

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

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development of railroads

Question 10

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

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container system

Question 11

Mexico is to Maquiladors as ___ is to ____.

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China is to SEZ

Question 12

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

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A and B

Question 13

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

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Midwest, to minimize national distribution costs

Question 14

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

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all of the choices are true

Question 15

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

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access to oil and natural gas

Question 16

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

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Southern California

Question 17

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

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a Fordist industry

Question 18

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

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textile

Question 19

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

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women's blouses

Question 20

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

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skill necessary to make the machines that produced products

Question 21

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

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large inventory of products

Question 22

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

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site factors

Question 23

Hotelling's location analysis emphasized the role of

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locational interdependence

Question 24

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

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coalfields

Question 25

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

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transportation costs

Question 26

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

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US

Question 27

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

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low-wage labor

Question 28

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

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cause a trouble for labor unions attempting to organize

Question 29

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

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coastal port areas

Question 30

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

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200,000

Question 31

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

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Eastern South America

Question 32

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

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Japan

Question 33

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

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cargo can be moved from 1 kind of carrier to another

Question 34

LDCs specialize in what two types of global business services?

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offshore financial and back office

Question 35

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

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are too far from US facilities for just-in-time delivery

Question 36

Significant site factors include all but which of the following?

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Climate

Question 37

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

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Fordist

Question 38

The Ruhr industrial area is connected to its ports by

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the Rhine River

AP Human Geography Unit 8: Industry and Services

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AP Human Geography Unit 8: Industry and Services

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