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- 1. Multiple Choice1. Situation costs are critical to a firm that wishes toavoid skilled laborers.minimize production costs inside the plant.minimize transport costs.identify unique characteristics of a particular industry.
- 2. Multiple ChoiceProducers of automobiles select assembly plant locations primarily for their closer access togovernment subsidies.raw materialswater transportation.labor markets.
- 3. Multiple Choice1. Soda bottling is an example of aperishable industry.labor intensive industry.bulk-gaining industry.communications-oriented industry.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceA company which uses more than one mode of transport will often locate near what?FactoryConsumer ProductsRaw materialsBreak-of-bulk Point
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhy are the factories in Mexico close to the border?Where the best resources areThe geography is best thereEasy to ship in and out
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat are the factories in Mexico called?MariachiMaquiladorasCommercial FactoriesNo factories in Mexico
- 7. Multiple ChoiceAccording to Alfred Weber, which one of the following costs of production is the most important factor in locating a new industry?LaborTransportationRaw MaterialsAgglomeration Costs
- 8. Multiple ChoiceTargets generally have Best Buys, Sally Beauty Salons, Famous Footwear, JC Penny, & Petsmarts near them. This is known as what?Maquiladora IndustiresJust-in-time planningAgglomerationsOutsourcing
- 9. Multiple ChoiceAT&T having their call centers stationed in India and China is known as what industry practice?AgglomerationsOutsourcingNAFTASpecial Economic Zones
- 10. Multiple ChoiceIf a product is heavier when it arrives at the factory than when it leaves (trees--> paper, potatoes-->chips) then the factory will be ____________ to the marketcloserfarther
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe set of goals that were made by the UN in 2000 and were revisited in recent years to evaluate progress on development of LDC's in the world.HDIMillennium Development GoalsInformal EconomyUNHCR
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe term used for a country with high birth rates, high death rates, little economic growth, and a high population in the primary sector.MDCLDCHDIGNP
- 13. Multiple ChoiceMining and farming are part of which economic sector?PrimarySecondaryTertiaryQuaternary
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat stage of Rostow's Development Index does technology first get introduced?1-Traditional Society2-Preconditions of takeoff3-takeoff4-drive to maturaty
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat factors affect life expectancy?level of povertydiet and nutritionnumber of doctorsall of the above
- 16. Multiple ChoiceNewly industrialized countries (NICs) like Brazil and Mexico are considered part of theCorePeripherySemi-PeripheryExternal
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is not an economic measure of development?GDPPurchasing Power ParityGNIliteracy rate
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhose development model consists of a 5 stage process that countries go through as they develop economically?LoschRostowWallersteinWeber
- 19. Multiple Choice
Sub-Saharan Africa has all of the following problems, EXCEPTCorrupt and/or inefficient governmentsLow levels of female empowermentA lack of mineral resourcesA relatively uneducated populace - 20. Multiple ChoiceMexico, China, Russia, India, Brazil, and South Africa are allperipheral countriesMDCscore countriessemi-peripheral countries
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhich types of countries' economies rely primarily on primary economic activities?Core CountriesNICsSemi-Periphery CountriesPeriphery Countries
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich region of the world has no core countries?North AmericaWestern EuropeOceaniaSub-Saharan Africa
- 23. Multiple ChoiceFarming, mining, fishing, and forestry are all considered to bePrimary Economic ActivitiesSecondary Economic ActivitiesTertiary Economic ActivitiesQuaternary Economic Activities
- 24. Multiple ChoiceCreated by Wallerstein to show that the world is interconnected and that we are all interdependent on each other. Divides us into three tiers of economic prosperity.Dependency TheoryNeo liberal counterrevolutionstructural adjustment loanWorld Systems theory
- 25. Multiple ChoiceIndustry in which production of goods and services is based in homes, as opposed to factories. Dominant industrial model before Industrial Revolution. Today, produce specialty goods, which are assembled individually or in small quantities.Agglomeration EconomiesCottage IndustryFootloose IndustryFordist
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWho created this idea of nestling of settlements according to range and threshold of services?WallersteinWeberChristallerRostow
- 27. Multiple Choice
A clustering of doctor's offices and pharacies near hospitals is BEST explained by the benefits of
decenteralization
enfranchisement
agglomeration
balkanization
intervening oppurtunity
- 28. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is the primary geographic effect of the globalization of the economy?
Countries have greater control over economic activity within their borders
Production is increasingly concentrated in the Manufacturing Belt of the United States
More local ownership makes industries less likely to move
Production is shifted to low-cost locations in developing countries
Production is increasingly concentrated in the Rhine-Ruhur Valley of Europe
- 29. Multiple Choice
The literacy rate of any country correlates most closely with which of the following?
petrolum production
annual percipitation rates
population density
per capita income
general level of intelligence
- 30. Multiple Choice
The maquiladoras of northern Mexico are
illegal migrant-labor camps
border squatter settlements
manufacturing outsourcing plants
organic agricultural cooperatives
commercial produce farms
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