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Unit 7 Core Content APHG

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According to the Human Development Index (HDI) which of the following would be considered social measurement of development
literarcy rate
Which set of data best describes the overall structure of a highly developed country's workforce in 2008 (% of the workforce engaged in each sector)?
Primary 10%, secondary 30%, tertiary 60%.
Applying the Core-Periphery model, which of the following best describes the classification of Brazil?
semi-periphery
Which of the following is typically not a characteristic of LDCs
Large portions of the population are highly skilled and educatd
Which of the following regions gets the highest percentage of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from agriculture?
Central Africa
The industrialization of a country's economy often has which the following large scale effects on a country's demographic patterns?
mechanized farming replaces many labor intensive jobs, inducing people to move to new industrial and urban areas. Over time, the country's birth rate decreases as the country industrializes.
based on the concept of Wallerstein's world systems analysis, which of the following countries best fits the description of core in the early 21st century?
Germany
which of the following development schools of though advocates that countries proceed through progressive stages of economic structural change? Less developed countries should follow the path that Western Europe and North America took during the Industrial Revolution.
Rostow's Model/Modernization
Which of the following development schools of thought advocates that the dynamic between highly developed and developing countries, permanently keeps less developed countries at an economic disadvantage?
dependency
which of the following development schools of thoughts advocates the best strategies for development are the use of micro loans for women and the poor, small-scale community based projects and resource conservation?
sustainable devlopment
which of the following development strategies would be consistent with Rostow's preconditions for take-off stage?
Build hydroelectric dam and roads
the Human Development Index was derived with which of the following purposes in mind?
Create a method of measuring development that attempts to include social and economic elements
which of the following countries is NOT one of the 4 Asian Dragons?
Mainland China
The North/South split of development as shown by the Brandt line generally asserts what factor?
Northern countries are wealthier than southern countries
which of the following regions in the late 20th and early 21st century had the largest increases in GDP per capita?
East Asia
Which of the following is the best definition of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
The value of all goods and service produced within a country in a given year
Rostow's economic development model indicates that before high level economic development can occur
countries must pass through predictable and sequential stages
Which of the following is the last stage of development of Rostow's model?
high mass consumption
Which of the following American cities is not located in a major manufacturing region?
Miami
Which of the following areas is not considered a large manufacturing region in China?
Lhasa - Tibet - West
Which of the following best explains why many companies continue to locate factories in traditional manufacturing regions like the northeast United States and Western Europe? #3
Large pool of skilled labor and quick delivery to large markets
which of the following best describes Rostow's model of economic development?
countries will proceed through a series of stages in which a country focuses on the development of industries in which it has a comparative advantage
all of the following are drawbacks to the self sufficiency model of development except
it encourages internal innovation
critics of globalizatiozation processes would disagree with which of the following statements?
while both the core and periphery world benefit from globalization, the periphery benefits the most
the gender empowerment index (GEM) attempts to measure the influence of women in a society by indexing woman's income, participation in labor force, professional jobs and political influence. Which of the following regions scored the lowest on the GEM index?
Middle East
The Gender Development Index (GDI) is the highest for women in
Scandinavia
The following are part of the United Nations (UN) Millennium development goals except
eliminate crime
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Fair Trade movement?
Insure that a higher percentage of the profit in international trade goes to the producers less developed countries
The overall purpose of micro loan development strategy is to
provide small scale loans to individuals to create sustainable start-up industries in less developed regions
which of the following industries is most likely to outsource jobs to another country because of slight increases in labor costs?
textile plants
which of the following situational factors best explains why automobile manufacturing and assembly plants continue to locate in the interior United States?
Relatively less expensive site costs and quick delivery to large markets
prior to the Industrial Revolution, which of the following best describes manufacturing?
individual families produced goods by and or on individual spinning wheels
Not all regions of a country will develop at the same rate or reap the benefits of a country's economic development. Which of the following does not explain why Western China has not developed as quickly as Eastern China?
Western China lacks resources used for manufacturing.
Which of the following industries would most likely be resource oriented?
paper production
Weber's least cost location theory uses all of the following factors to determine optimum location of a manufacturing facility except
global division of labor
the most important transportation improvement of the late 20th and early 21st century impacting international trade is
improvements in intermodal containerization
which of the following is the best example of a bulk reducing industry?
copper mining
Based on classical optimal location theory, which of the following best describes the lowest cost location in the bulk gaining industry of soft-drink bottling?
Water and glass are ubiquitous but heavy so production should be relatively close to the market in order to reduce transportation costs.
just-in-time manufacturing has had which of the following impacts on the locational factors of production?
reinforces agglomeration of related industries
just-in-time production is most associated with which manufacturing process
flexible production
most of the products that are produced in Maquiladoras are mainly sent to consumers in which country?
United States
what is the term for small areas within a country that are granted favorable investment and trading conditions in order to attract industries?
Export - Processing Zone (EPZ)
The rise of China economically has had which of the following impacts on the global economy?
Lowered the price of consumer goods on a global scale.
The process of producing parts or products in a foreign country for domestic use or sale is known as?
outsourcingu
using a global scale, which of the following regions would not be considered a major manufacturing region during the 20th century?
Southern India.
Which of the following factors does not help explain why steel manufacturing facilities in the United States have increasingly been located in a coastal city location?
There is a shortage of iron ore in the interior United States.
Which of the following factors helps to explain why automobile manufacturing facilities are being built in the Southern United States as opposed to the traditional locations of Michigan and other states in the Midwest?
workers in the South are les likely to oin a union
which of the following regions accounted for early 80% of the industrial output of the early 1800s Industrial Revolution
Western Europe
During the 1800s Industrial Revolution, the most important fuel source for manufacturing was...
coal
which of the following is considered the place of origin of the Industrial Revolution?
United Kingdom
In the context of industrial location, which of the following best describes the concept of site?
the unique characteristics of a location including the factors of labor, capital, and land
A clustering of rubber tire and windshield producers near automobile assembly plants is best explained by the benefits of
agglomeration
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