APHG Unit 7 Industry

 Producers of automobiles select assembly plant locations primarily for their closer access to

• government subsidies.
• raw materials
• water transportation.
•  labor markets.

1.  Soda bottling is an example of a

•  perishable industry.
•  labor intensive industry.
•  bulk-gaining industry.
•  communications-oriented 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

Why are the factories in Mexico close to the border? 

• Where the best resources are
• The geography is best there
• Easy to ship in and out

Targets generally have Best Buys, Sally Beauty Salons, Famous Footwear, JC Penny, & Petsmarts near them. This is known as what? 

• Maquiladora Industires
• Just-in-time planning
• Agglomerations
• Outsourcing

AT&T having their call centers stationed in India and China is known as what industry practice? 

• Agglomerations
• Outsourcing
• NAFTA
• Special Economic Zones

The set of goals that were made by the UN in 2000 and were revisited in recent years to evaluate progress on development of LDC's in the world.

• HDI
• Millennium Development Goals
• Informal Economy
• UNHCR

The term used for a country with high birth rates, high death rates, little economic growth, and a high population in the primary sector.

• MDC
• LDC
• HDI
• GNP

Mining and farming are part of which economic sector?

• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
• Quaternary

What stage of Rostow's Development Index does technology first get introduced?

• 1-Traditional Society
• 2-Preconditions of takeoff
• 3-takeoff
• 4-drive to maturaty