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Duplicate of AP Human Geography Unit 6 Review
Duplicate of AP Human Geography Unit 6 Review
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1
Situation costs are most critical to a firm that wishes to do what?
Avoid collectivization of labor
Find an ideal climate
Minimize transportation costs
Minimize production costs inside the plant
2
What kind of manufacturing industry is based in homes rather than in factories?
Cottage industry
Break of bulk industry
Right to work industry
Outsourcing industry
3
What is true regarding women in MDCs as opposed to LDCs?
Women do not perform labor in MDCs
Women are more likely to participate in government in MDCs
Women are more likely to work in the primary sector in MDCs
Women are more likely to have multiple children in MDCs
4
These take advantage of geographic differences in wages, labor laws, taxes, & natural resources
Agglomerations
Footloose industries
E-businesses
Transnational corporations
5
The more developed regions of the world include all of the following EXCEPT
Eastern Europe
South Pacific
Southwest Asia
Western Europe
6
What country has both the largest coal reserves in the world and most of their power from it?
Russia
China
United States
Mexico
7
The Industrial Revolution began
in the 19th Century under Nikola Tesla
in the 18th Century in England
in the 20th Century under Henry Ford
in the 16th Century in Germany
8
Keeping in mind the core-periphery model, which country best exemplifies the core today?
China
Brazil
Germany
Afghanistan
9
The biggest problem in promoting development through the international trade alternative is
Regional cooperation
Unequal distribution of resources
Increased demand for many goods
Increased price of petroleum
10
Deindustrialization has had a dramatic impact on which of the following regions?
Great Plains
Great Lakes
Cotton Belt
Sun Belt
11
The principal benefit of the self-sufficiency approach is to promote
Unequal distribution of resources
Global competitiveness for local industries
Balanced growth of all economic sectors
More efficient resources
12
Significant site factors include all but which of the following?
Labor
Capital
Transportation
Land
13
Mexico's
maquiladoras
are examples of
Offshore financial centers
brick-and-mortar businesses
Ancillary activities
export-processing zones
14
The clustering of financial firms on Wall Street in New York is an example of
central place theory
ancillary industry
agglomeration
least-cost theory
15
Which industry is most dependent on low-cost labor?
Textile
Automotive
Electronics
Steel
16
Los Angeles receives goods from Asia via boat to be put on trains and trucks in port. This is:
break-of-bulk point
trade alternative partner
variable trading point
entrepot
17
Saudi Arabia has successfully employed the international trade alternative primarily because of
Consumer spending
Regional cooperation
Traditional social customs
Petroleum reserves
18
Firms try to build their production facilities to maximize profits and minimize costs. This is:
Least cost theory
Pythagorean theorem
Communist theory
Theory of agglomeration
19
Economic activities that increase and thereby benefit from agglomeration are called
quinary industries
footloose industries
tertiary activities
ancillary activities
20
Niger's economy is mostly limited to
primary economic activities
quaternary economic activities
manufacturing industries
service industries
21
Special economic zones (SEZs) are most common in which country?
Russia
Japan
China
Brazil
22
The literacy rate of any country correlates most closely with which of the following?
per capita income
petroleum production
population density
annual precipitation rates
23
Which is the HDI much lower on average because females can't access educational opportunities?
Southwest Asia
Southeast Asia
Atlantis
Central Asia
24
Which of the following is NOT an Asian Tiger?
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Singapore
Vietnam
25
Rostow's stages of development model predicts each country's economy will progress from
high levels of pollution to efficient resource use
low output to high input
high consumption to ecological sustainability
low per capita income to high per capita income/consumption
26
In terms of the global economy, which area would be considered the world's resource frontier?
Southwest Asia
Central and Western Europe
Eastern South America
East Asia
27
The value of total output of goods and services in a year in a country is its
productivity index
gross domestic product
level of development
value added
28
Potato chip production is a good example of what?
A bulk-reducing industry
A bulk-gaining industry
A fixed-cost industry
A variable-cost industry
29
In more developed countries, employment is increasing in:
The secondary sector
The primary sector
The tertiary sector
All three sectors
30
The Gender Empowerment Measure
compares levels of indicators for females versus males
takes the HDI and applies it only to women vs the population
compares the level of development for women globally
combines economic and political indicators of empowerment
