Exam 11: Industry and Manufacturing

-According to this map of the European Union, southern Italy is identified as a "convergence region" whereas northern Italy is a "competitiveness and employment region."

Both Europe and the United States have seen interregional shifts of manufacturing, but one difference is

Because of the invention of high-tech pulleys and chutes, multi-story buildings in major cities are the most suitable land locations for contemporary factories.

A financial analysis firm coined the acronym BRIC to indicate the projected economic power of Brazil, Russia, India, and China in the near future.

Imagine that you wished to manufacture clothing in the United States to sell in Asian markets. What challenges would you have to overcome in order to do this, and how?

-This map of the European Union indicates that the northernmost part of the United Kingdom is a "convergence region."

-This map of railway diffusion indicates that during the Industrial Revolution

If a multinational corporation in your city proposes outsourcing a local factory to China in order to save a few cents per product manufactured, what counter-arguments could you offer to dissuade them from closing the local factory? Use data from this chapter to reinforce your argument.

-An analysis of this map indicates that railways

Mexico's maquiladora plants

In order to become a global industrial power, Japan had to overcome which of the following problems?

Situation costs are critical to a firm that wishes to

It is projected that by 2050, the United States would have the second largest economy in the world.

The Po River basin in Italy

China has the largest labor force employed in manufacturing.

-The map of East Asia's industrial areas indicates that the chief concentrations of manufacturing in the region include

Given the earlier history of the chemical industry, we can hypothesize that its 20th-century contributions to the textile industry began to include

-According to these charts, the U.S. share of global steel production

As a country's per capita income increases, its per capita carbon dioxide emissions

Imagine that you will build a new factory to produce parts for all of the major U.S.-based automobile assembly plants today. Assume that you will build only one factory. Taking into account the locations of the assembly plants on this map and your knowledge of other factors described in this chapter, where would you locate your new factory, and why?