Exam 12: Industry and Services

_______________ is a city on the Pearl Delta with a huge textile plant providing opportunities for its workers.While they are required to work nine hours a day at a set amount,many work more hours and are compensated by items produced during those hours.

The increase in time and cost with distance is referred to as

Much of the Ruhr area has been converted from abandoned steel mills to tourist attractions.

Analyze Weber's Least Cost theory.Be sure to include what his theory entails,and if it still holds true today.

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?

The second largest industrial district in China developed around _______,China's largest city.

Japan has developed its industrial economy due to its abundant supplies of coal and iron ore.

After World War I,Russia annexed Bosnia for its resources.

High-technology corridors have sprung up in the global economic core.The resulting collection of high-tech industries has been called a technopole with the best known being California's "Silicon Valley." A similar concentration has appeared around the city of ______________ in the eastern United States.

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

In the early eighteenth century,British textiles were manufactured

Who actually laid the groundwork for the colonial expansion of Europe?

Ford's River Rouge plant is an example of vertical integration.

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

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

The cast iron bridge at Coalbrookdale,England,reflects the resources and technology of its time.

In Britain,the proximity of what three things gave an unsurpassed advantage to the development of early industry?

U.S.production of oil in recent years' averages ____% of the world's total.

The most important locational factor for the service sector is

The type of manufacturing that is more likely to be located in peripheral countries is