AP HUG UNIT 7

Significant site factors include all of the following EXCEPT

Transportation costs

Abandoned and polluted industrial sites are a growing problem for municipalities in the us and Europe. These are known as

Brownfields

The _____ compares the levels of indicators for females to those of males

GII

The transference of cargo from different methods of shipping to another is called

Break-Of-Bulk

The total value of the output of goods and services ina year in a country is its

Gross-Domestic Product

All of the following are stages of Rostows Theory of Economic Development EXCEPT:

Landing

Which of the following can be categorized as a primary activity

Coal mining

Rostows modernization model is concerned with which of the following concepts

Stages of economic development

Activities that involve the collection, processing and manipulation of information are considered part of which sector?

Quaternary

The high-tech firms of SIlicon Valley in California are clustered together to take advantage of

Agglomeration effects

In Latin America, data for employment in many large urban areas are most likely to be incomplete because

Many people work in the informal sector

A lumber mill tends to located near the forested area being harvested because lumber milling is

A bulk-reducing industry

The cottage system involved manufacturing

In the home

Free trade zones such as the countries of (NAFTA) are established to increase the ease and volume of international trade

Eliminate tariffs on goods shipped between member states

A clustering of doctor’s offices and pharmacies near hospitals is BEST explained by the benefits of

Agglomeration

Which of the following has brought significant numbers of foreign visitors & currency to Costa Rica, Ecuador, & Nepal?

Ecotourism

An industry which can be located almost anywhere without significantly increasing its transportation costs is known as

Footloose

The establishment of maquiladoras by United States corporations is an example of which of the following

New international division of labor

Environmental laws, labor availability, and access to markets are major factors affecting which of the following

Manufacturing locations

Which of the following best explains a benefit of membership in the European Unions

member states form a single market, strengthening their economic bloc

The theory of industrial location suggests that the main consideration in the location of an industrial site is

Cost of transportation

Economic activities involving extraction of resources are part of which sector

Primary

Situation issues are critical to a firm which wishes to

Minimize transportation costs

The ____________ of northern Mexico are manufacturing outsourcing plants

Maquiladoras

This occurs when each place specializes in commodities demanded by the other

Complementarity

When a company posses forward and backward links in the supply or production process, it is called

Vertical integration

Beverage-bottling is an example of a

Bulk-gaining industry

Why have many US companies moved their operations from the North to Southern states

The south has less expensive site factors than northern regions

Outsourced industrial production in less-developed countries often relies on female labor because

Wages for women are significantly lower than for males