Unit 7 Exam study

Weber's Least Cost Theory is best described by...

• Minimizing a single input cost

• Minimization of multiple costs

• only applying to post-industrial societies

• operation around a single source

What is a disadvantage of hydroelectric as a means of generating electric energy for development

• Water has to be chemically treated

• Lower voltage output than natural gas power plants

• Major alteration of the ecosystem above and below the dam site

• Not an effective power source

Copper smelting, refining, and foundry locations near Arizona's copper mines indicates that copper is

• A bulk gaining industry

• A bulk reducing industry

• A footloose industry

• attracted to low cost labor

Core-periphery models of dependency and development describe

• Suburban commuting patterns

• social and cultural differences between urban and rural people

• A place and its functions

• Power and transfer of resources from less developed to developed areas

Chile, a less developed country, would likely experience growth in GDP in specialty agriculture and timber if it

• exports these to developed countries

• used these as food and building for Chileans

• created trade alliances in the region

• focused on GMO products

Positive correlation between GDP and

• IMR

• RNI

• Rice production per capita

• Carbon dioxide emission per capita

These are all correct except

• Per capita income in the US is higher than in China

• Gaps in income between wealthiest and poorest is growing

• Largest concentration of LDC's is Latin America

• Population growth is faster in peripheral countries

Outsourced industrial production uses women more than men because

• wage rates for women is lower

• men are working in agriculture

• social taboos prevent women from working in services

• women are more skilled at operating machinery

Wallerstein's Theory has

• 5 stages of development

• 3 worlds that interact equally

• 3 worlds that interact via exploitation

• no ability to regress

Rostow's Theory has

• 5 stages that all can progress through

• 3 worlds that exist equally

• 3 worlds that exist with exploitation

• An ability to regress from higher to lower stages