Pretest 6 Flashcards
In the 1700’s, water pollution increased significantly when the chemical industry began to contribute to the textile industry through methods of
Bleaching and dyeing
The industrial revolution began in
The late 1700s
The most important improvement in the eighteenth century was the
Canal
Approximately three-fourths of the worlds industrial production is concentrated in three regions, including which of the following
Eastern North America and northwestern Europe
Western European principal industrial areas include all of the following EXCEPT
Portugal and western Spain
The main source of power for steam engines and blast ovens is produced from
Coal
What mining region has the most varied mineral deposits of the world, with over 1,000 minerals?
The Ural Mountains
A copper concentration mill tends to locate near a copper mine because it is a
Bulk-reducing industry
Metal fabrication plants are an example of a bulk-gaining industry because
Desperate parts are combined to make more complex and massive products
Situation costs are critical to a firm that wishes to
Minimize transport costs
Producers of automobiles select assembly plant locations primarily for their closer access to
Markets for finished automobiles
Eastern North America became the continents manufacturing center in part because it had access to the continents
Largest markets
The US steel industry moved westward in the nineteenth century primarily because of the better access to
Iron ore
A company which uses more than one ______ will offer locate near break-of-bulk points.
Mode of transport
In order to become a global industrial power, Japan had to overcome which of the following problems
Distance from consumers
Although transportation costs rise because breaks in transportation, we can surmise that over very long distances the lowest-cost form of transporting goods by
Ship
As a country’s per capita income increases, it’s per capita carbon dioxide emissions
Also increases
Despite the risks to the environment, the US gulf coast has become an important industrial area because of
Access to oil and natural gas fields
Both Europe and the United States have seen inter regional shifts of manufacturing, but one difference is
In Europe, government policies have encouraged relocation
Twenty-three US states have so called “right-to-work” laws that
Cause a great deal of trouble for labor unions attempting to organize workers and bargain with employers
Medicos maqiladora plants
Have an advantage or proximity to US markets
Maintaining control over all phases of a highly complex production process, as opposed to outsourcing, is known as
Vertical integration
The new international division of labor reflects the growing importance of
Outsourcing
What two location Factors influence more industries to remain in the northeastern United States and northwestern Europe
Skilled labor and rapid delivery to market
In contrast to fording production, post-for dust production is more likely to
Introduce more flexible work rules
A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found close together is what kind of settlement
Clustered rural
Consumer services include
Health and social, professional, and financial service jobs
Most people in the world live in what type of settlement
Urban settlement
The area surrounding a service from which costumes are attracted to is the
Hinterland
The maximum distance people are willing to travel from a service is
Range
If a country’s largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city had 200,00 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution
Primate city
If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants how many people live in the fifth largest city
200,000
The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the
Threshold
The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is
Directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it
The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the
Gravity model
Central place theory predicts larger settlements are
Less numerous and farther apart
In a linear community, we can deduce that the best location for a service is the
Median
Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of
Economic, political, cultural, and infrastructure factors
The attraction of the outsourced “offshore banking” industry can best be explained by
Bank secrecy laws and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries
LDC’s specialize in what two types of gal all business services
Offshore financial and back office
What factors determine where back office services will locate in LDC’s
Low wage rates and workers who can speak English
Which of the following is most likely a basic economy activity
Steel mill
The most significant impact that great Britains enclosure movement made on the rural landscape was to
Produce more of a dispersal rural settlement pattern
Heterogeneity is more a characteristic of
Urban centers than rural communities
The cottage industry system involved manufacturing
In the home
