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Chapter 12 - Industry and Services
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Nearly ______________ percent of long-distance cargo is now shipped in standard containers.
a. 90
b. 50
c. 25
d. 70
a. 90
The first power source of the Industrial Revolution was _______________.
a. running water
b. steam engines
c. electricity
d. windmills
a. running water
British investors and businesses held a near monopoly over _______________.
a. international transportation
b. the sources of raw materials
c. many products
d. all available labor
c. many products
In Britain, the proximity of what three things gave an unsurpassed advantage to the development of early industry?
a. forests for charcoal, domestic markets, and iron ores
b. coal fields, iron ores, and coastal ports
c. an internal railroad system, cotton for textiles, and domestic markets
d. good highways, coal fields, and coastal ports
b. coal fields, iron ores, and coastal ports
Industry diffusing to Western Europe involved, as in Britain, the locational criteria: coalfields, water, communication, and _______________.
a. iron ore
b. markets
c. labor
d. ports
d. ports
Some industrial regions emerge because of their raw materials combinations. Which of the following is not an example of such a region?
a. the Ruhr
b. Saxony
c. the Donbas
d. London
d. London
The relocation of industry to cities like Paris and London was facilitated by _______________.
a. their location in coalfields
b. government grants
c. low cost of urban labor
d. development of railroads
d. development of railroads
_______________ are considered secondary industrial hearths.
a. Italy and Spain
b. Eastern North America, South Korea and Taiwan
c. Eastern North America, western Russia and Ukraine, and East Asia
d. Brazil and Argentina
c. Eastern North America, western Russia and Ukraine, and East Asia
The increase in time and cost with distance is referred to as _______________.
a. production costs
b. distribution costs
c. friction of distance
d. distance decay
c. friction of distance
Which cost of Weber's has changed the most today since his writing?
a. agglomeration
b. the location of raw materials
c. transportation
d. weight of products
c. transportation
If a substantial number of enterprises all develop in, or move to, the same area the factor is called _______________
a. cluster
b. focus
c. agglomeration
d. intensity
c. agglomeration
_______________ involves keeping a small inventory for short-term production and new parts are shipped quickly as needed.
a. Just-in-time delivery
b. Least Cost Theory
c. Fordist production
d. Global division of labor
a. Just-in-time delivery
Industrialization occurred along an axis from Northern France through North-Central Germany to Czech Republic and South Poland. This axis correlates with _______________ as a locational factor.
a. population
b. coalfields
c. major ports
d. the trend of the drainage system
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New York City, like other large urban centers with great ports, is called a break of bulk location because _______________.
a. plentiful labor is available to unload massive cargo ships.
b. markets are readily available for shipped goods.
c. large dock warehouses are available where goods can be stored until sold.
d. transported cargo can be transferred from one kind of carrier to another.
d. transported cargo can be transferred from one kind of carrier to another.
In which country does industry not lie near sources of raw material?
a. China
b. Japan
c. India
d. the United States
b. Japan
The largest producer of furniture in the world is located in _______________.
a. North Carolina
b. Sweden
c. Amish country
d. Germany
b. Sweden
Mass production of standardized goods using assembly line techniques is referred to as: _______________
a. Fordist
b. manufacturing
c. global production
d. mass production
a. Fordist
Fast, flexible production of small lots with outsourcing around the world is referred to as: _______________.
a. Fordist
b. post-Fordist
c. socialist
d. colonial production
b. post-Fordist
The type of manufacturing that is more likely to be located in peripheral countries is _______________.
a. technical design
b. labor-intensive
c. low-labor needs
d. high-tech
b. labor-intensive
Television research and design takes place in the _______________.
a. core area
b. periphery
c. semi-periphery
d. universities of India and China
a. core area
During the 1970s, U.S. television manufacturers began to move productions "offshore" to places such as special zones on the Mexican border called _______________.
a. industrial cities
b. peripheral production zones
c. technopoles
d. maquiladoras
d. maquiladoras
Current amounts of goods and resources moving in the global system would be impossible without the invention of _______________.
a. aircraft
b. container systems
c. bulk cargo ships
d. railroads
b. container systems
Service industries include _______________ industries.
a. tertiary
b. secondary
c. quinary
d. a and c
d. a and c
Fayetteville, Arkansas has become a _______________ because of Wal-Mart.
a. break-of-bulk point
b. techno pole
c. growth pole the most
d. polluted city in America
c. growth pole the most
Technopoles tend to locate near _______________.
a. raw materials
b. cheap labor
c. electricity supplies
d. centers of research and development (major research universities)
d. centers of research and development (major research universities)
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