Unit 8 Quiz (Industry & Services)

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

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

Mexico's maquiladora plants have an advantage to proximity to US markets...

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

New US automobile assembly plants have been built in the:

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

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

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

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

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

LDCs specialize in what two types of global business services?

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

Following rank-size rule, the largest city has 1 million people, how many in the 5th largest city?

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

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

The Rhur industrial area is connected to its ports by

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

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

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

Significant site factors include all but which of the following?

The current volume of goods moving through the global system would be impossible with out

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

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of:

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

Mexico is to Maquiladors as __ is to __.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hotelling's location analysis emphasized the role of

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