Exam 11: Industry

Which of the following is true of plants that manufacture car parts in the United States?

If products are more expensive to transport than inputs, the optimal location for a factory is near the source of inputs.

Which of the following regions in the United States is the country's second-largest furniture producer, and a major food-processing center?

Within auto alley, U.S.-owned carmakers and suppliers have clustered in Michigan and nearby northern states, whereas foreign-owned carmakers and parts suppliers have clustered in the central and southern portions of auto alley.

During the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. steel industry concentrated around ________ in an area proximate to iron-ore and coal mines.

Which one of the following countries dominated world production of steel and textiles during the nineteenth century?

The Industrial Revolution was a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

An airplane-parts manufacturer adjacent to airplane manufacturing companies is an example of which of the following?

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO) of the UN, about 150 million people are employed in manufacturing around the world.

The financial analysis firm Goldman-Sachs believe that the following countries are expected to dominate global manufacturing during the twenty-first century.

Which one of the following industries was not directly impacted by the onset of the Industrial Revolution?

A labor-intensive industry is one in which wages and other compensation paid to employees constitute a very small percentage of expenses.

A beverage bottling plant would be an example of the which of the following?

An industry in which the inputs weigh more than the final products is a bulk-gaining industry.

China's steel industry has grown in spite of a lack of access to the primary inputs of iron ore and coal.

The share of U.S. sales accounted for by the Detroit 3 has declined from ________ percent in 1995 to ________ percent in 2010.

Which of the following modes of transportation are most often used for short-distance delivery because they can be loaded and unloaded quickly and cheaply?

Which of the following is true of manufacturing jobs in the U.S.?

Globally, China and India alone account for nearly 90 percent of the world's woven cotton fabric production.

In the making of yarn, historically, natural fibers were the sole source, but today synthetics account for three-fourths of world thread production.