AP HuG - Economic Geography

Because the motor vehicle assembly industry is typically described as a bulk-gaining industry, Honda's most important factor when selecting a location for a new assembly plant in the United States was

• minimize cost of shipping finished vehicles to U.S. customers

• minimize cost of shipping inputs/raw materials

• maximizing delivery time to customers

• the location of highways and railroads

Industrial areas outside North America and Europe have become increasingly important in recent years primarily because of

• access to markets

• access to raw materials

• break-of-bulk points

• site factors (such as labor costs)

Maintaining control over all phases of a highly complex production process is known as

• vertical integration

• international division of labor

• outsourcing

• right-to-work

A main benefit for manufacturers of just-in-time delivery is

• it reduces wasteful inventory

• it improves delivery time to customer

• it allows manufacturers to increase their factory size

• parts arrive days ahead of final assembly

Saudi Arabia is an example of a country that has successfully employed the international trade alternative primarily because of

• consumer spending

• their petroleum reserves

• regional cooperation

• social customs

An example of a secondary sector activity is

• education (teaching)

• manufacturing

• banking

• farming (agriculture)

The cottage industry system involved manufacturing

• of luxury goods

• in the home (by hand)

• of the steam engine

• in small factories

Per capita GDP is a good indicator of all but which of the following?

• the approximate level of material well being in a country

• the number of countries below the poverty level

• the distribution of wealth within a country

• the spatial distribution of global wealth

Gender empowerment measures

• economic and political indicators of power regarding women in the workforce (working in legislatures, as CEO’s, and other decision-making positions).

• the level of development of women in a country to the average development level of women in the world.

• the levels of indicators for females to those of males within a country.

• the same measures as the HDI but is applied only to women instead of the entire population.

Producers of automobiles select locations primarily because of access to

• government subsidies

• labor

• the market

• raw materials