Exam 12: Industry and Services

Fast,flexible production of small lots with outsourcing around the world is referred to as: ____________

Current amounts of goods and resources moving in the global system would be impossible without the invention of _____________

Hotelling's location analysis emphasized the role of _______________

Industry diffusing to Western Europe involved,as in Britain,the locational criteria: coalfields,water communication,and ____________

When Alfred Weber published his book Theory of the Location of Industries (1909),what did he select as the critical determinant of regional industrial location?

What is outsourcing? What is offshore production? Choose an industry (televisions,Nike shoes,etc.)and discuss the global division of labor.

England not only held a monopoly over products that were in world demand at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,but also a monopoly on ____________

If a substantial number of enterprises all develop in,or move to,the same area the factor is called _______________

The first power source of the Industrial Revolution was ________________

Since 1960,the Ruhr has entered a stage of rapid deindustrialization.

Saxony is to Germany in the 1860s as ____________ is to Ukraine and Russia in the 1880s.

The relocation of industry to cities like Paris and London was facilitated by ______________

At the beginning of World War I,the United States was far behind Europe in developing an industrial base.

People working in the ___________ sector of economic activity tend to have high levels of specialized knowledge or technical skills.

Does shifting to a post-industrial society necessarily lead to economic decline in a country? What changes in economy and what effects does the shift have on the structure of the labor force and on regional economies based on primary,secondary,and tertiary activities?

Technopoles locate near major universities and centers of research and development.

The Kansai district is found along _____________,Japan's major waterway.

By 1990,the only American company that was making color television sets was _______________

The first railroad in England was opened in ____________

St.Petersburg is one of Russia's oldest manufacturing centers.