Exam 12: Industry and Services

Technopoles,a collection of high-technology industries,can be found in a number of countries.Which of the following is not a region containing one of these countries?

Mass production of standardized goods using assembly line techniques is referred to as:

________________ involves keeping a small inventory for short-term production and new parts are shipped quickly as needed.

China's "Pittsburgh" is

Describe the American Manufacturing Belt.When and how did this region develop? What impact has post-Fordism and deindustrialization had on this region?

Over 50% of the goods entering Europe come through two ports in

The first power source of the Industrial Revolution was

Burning coal in a near vacuum produced a much hotter burning,pure carbon fuel called:

The northeast industrial region of China (Shenyang)is today growing faster than other industrial regions in China.

Over 360 regional trade organizations are in existence today.

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

The shift from coal to oil explains the recent industrialization of the Middle East.

___________ describes a field of study that considers the roles of political economics, power, and history in shaping human environmental interactions.

Technopoles tend to locate near

Industry actually developed long before the Industrial Revolution.

Raw materials play an important role in industrial location.In the northeastern United States,what is the orientation of this industry?

Production of mass numbers of products is concentrated in the periphery and semi-periphery.

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

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

Japan's dominant industrial region is