APHG Unit 6 Industry

It is especially important for steel minimills to locate near:

• iron ore deposits

• coal deposits

• inexpensive labor

• major metropolitan areas

Which of the following is the best example of Outsourcing?

• An El Salvadorian immigrant illegally immigrates to the USA to find work

• An American Tech Company fires it's American Employees and hires people in Bangladesh to do the same job for 1/4 the cost

• A European worker moves to the USA and gets a high paying job at a tech company.

• An American company decides to change it's steel contracts from Japanese companies to Chinese companies

Why does Coca-Cola have bottling plants all over the world and not just one major plant?

• Because Coca Cola is a Bulk Reducing Industry

• Because Coca Cola is a Bulk Gaining Industry

• Because Coca Cola is a primary sector industry

• Because Coca Cola is a Basic Industry

A company which uses more than one mode of transport will often locate near what?

• Factory

• Consumer Products

• Raw materials

• Break-of-bulk Point

Which statistic tells you how much money a country makes?

• HDI

• GII

• GNP

• GDP

What allowed for the creation of Maquiladoras?

• NAFTA

• NATO

• HDI

• ANSEAN

Eastern North America became the continent's manufacturing center in part because it had access to the continent's

• largest markets.

• most extensive sources of essential raw materials.

• Ocean going transportation links to Asia.

• all of these

According to Alfred Weber, which one of the following costs of production is the most important factor in locating a new industry?

• Labor

• Transportation

• Raw materials

• Agglomeration costs

Which resource has produced the most energy over the last 200 years?

• Uranium

• Coal

• Oil

• Gas

A company faces 2 geographic costs- __________ in which a firm seeks to reduce the cost of transporting inputs to factories and finished products to market; and _______ which firms seek a location with unique characteristics

• situation factors; site factors

• Input factors; output factors

• More developed factor; less developed factor

• bulk-gaining factors; bulk reducing factors