7.2

Question 1

Primary Sector

Answer 1

Extracting natural resources from the earth like farming, fishing, mining, and forestry. LDCs tend to mostly do these things (Ethiopia)

Question 2

Secondary Sector

Answer 2

Making products from natural resources like manufacturing and building (China)

Question 3

Tertiary Sector

Answer 3

Providing information and services to people such as retail sales, medicine, and housekeeping. MDCs tend to mostly have this (USA)

Question 4

Quaternary Sector

Answer 4

Managing and processing information like financial analysis, software development, and data science.

Question 5

Quinary Sector

Answer 5

Creating information and making high level decisions like research and top managers in corporations or government.

Question 6

Multiplier Effect

Answer 6

The potential of a job to produce additional jobs.

Question 7

Least Cost Theory

Answer 7

Factory owners locate their factories based on minimizing transportation costs, minimizing labor costs, and maximizing agglomeration economies

Question 8

Agglomeration Economies

Answer 8

The spatial grouping of several businesses to share costs, such as an access road to a public highway or development of a workforce with special skills.

Question 9

Locational Triangle

Answer 9

Weber’s model can be shown with a locational triangle. The three points of the triangle are the market for a good and the two resources needed to make the good.

Question 10

Bulk-Reducing Industries

Answer 10

Transportation costs were often closely related to bulk (weight and size). Bulk reducing industries (such as chip manufacturers) have products that are easier and therefore cheaper to transport than the raw materials needed to make it. A company can save money by locating closer to the raw materials.

Question 11

Bulk-Gaining Industries

Answer 11

Industries where the product made is bulkier than the raw materials used to make it (soda manufacturers). These companies locate closer to the market.

Question 12

Labor-Oriented Industry

Answer 12

A company that is highly dependent on a workforce and will want to be near a source of those workers.

Question 13

Break of Bulk

Answer 13

The procedure of transferring cargo from one mode of transportation to another. (Boat>Train>Truck)

Question 14

Containerization

Answer 14

The system in which goods are loaded into a standardized shipping unit. (The big boxes seen on the back of semi trucks)

Question 15

Intermodal

Answer 15

The containers can be carried on a truck, train, and/or boat.

Question 16

Footloose

Answer 16

Companies can leave a location for a new location quickly and easily.

Question 17

Front Offices

Answer 17

To signal its prominence and wealth, a corporation might want to locate its main office for its top executives on the expensive upper floors of a skyscraper in a large city. These types of spaces, known as front offices, are designed to impress clients.

Question 18

Back Offices

Answer 18

A company might decide to locate the rest of its employees in less expensive office spaces, known as back offices