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WorksheetsAP Human Geography Industrial Vocabulary
Total questions: 82
Worksheet time: 41mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The idea that growth does not occur uniformly within a region but centers around a core industry. Around this core an agglomeration begins to cluster.
a)
Technopoles
b)
Growth Poles
c)
Textiles
d)
Entrepot
2.
An integrated approach to production that reduces waste and creates a positive working environment that is based on JIT and the empowerment of every individual to stop production to address quality issues
a)
Situation Factors
b)
Toyota Production System
c)
Site Factors
d)
Export-Processing Zone
3.
Economic activities that surround and support large-scale industries such as shipping and food service.
a)
Quinary Economic Activities
b)
Tertiary Economic Activities
c)
Ancillary Industrial Activities
d)
Primary Economic Activities
4.
The end result of production and manufacturing that a consumer will see on a store shelf.
a)
Consumer Goods
b)
Deglomeration
c)
Embargo
d)
Entrepot
5.
An expense that does not change relative to production.
a)
Site Factors
b)
Growth Poles
c)
Variable Costs
d)
Fixed Costs
6.
A network of suppliers and customers that provide goods and services.
a)
Outsourcing
b)
Supply Chain
c)
Commodity Chains
d)
Site Factors
7.
An industry in which the production of goods and services is based in homes as opposed to factories.
a)
Cottage Industry
b)
Tarrifs
c)
Bulk-Reducing Industry
d)
Receding Industry
8.
The locational interdependence approach to industrial location that is based on the location of competitors. Industries want to maximize their dominance of the market and have a natural tendency to move closer together.
a)
Growth Poles
b)
Hotelling's Model
c)
Spatially Fixing Costs
d)
Receding Industry
9.
The economy of a socialist or communist state that is commanded by fixed pricing and control of the means of production.
a)
Entrepot
b)
Bid Rent Theory
c)
Planned Economy
d)
Variable Costs
10.
Woven fabric products
a)
Tarrifs
b)
Embargo
c)
Textiles
d)
Technopoles
11.
The variety of avenues for transportation of a product that is dependent on a site's available infrastructure.
a)
Resource Orientation
b)
Modes of Transportation
c)
Deglomeration
d)
Market Orientation
12.
A linked system of processes that gather resources, convert them into goods, package them for distribution, disperse them, and sell them on the market.
a)
Growth Poles
b)
Consumer Goods
c)
Fixed Costs
d)
Commodity Chains
13.
An industry in which wages and other compensation paid to employees constitute a high percentage of expenses.
a)
Labor-Intensive Industry
b)
Receding Industry
c)
Bulk-Gaining Industry
d)
Cottage Industry
14.
Products that are not mass-produced but rather assembled individually or in small quantities.
a)
Specialty Goods
b)
Growth Poles
c)
Variable Costs
d)
Entrepot
15.
The transfer of some types of jobs from more developed countries to less developed countries.
a)
New International Division of Labor
b)
Urbanization Economies
c)
Transnational Corporation
d)
Agglomeration Diseconomies
16.
A concept developed by Alfred Weber to describe the optimal location of a manufacturing establishment in relation to the costs of transport and labor, and the relative advantages of agglomeration or deglomeration.
a)
Dependency Theory
b)
Footloose Firms
c)
Least-Cost Theory
d)
Bid Rent Theory
17.
The negative effects on one region that result from economic growth and agglomeration within another region.
a)
Backwash Effect
b)
E-Commerce
c)
Growth Poles
d)
Variable Costs
18.
A high-tech agglomeration growth pole, formed by similar high tech industries seeking to locate in a shared area so they can benefit from shared resources.
a)
Technopoles
b)
Core
c)
Growth Poles
d)
Textiles
19.
The idea that LDCs are locked into a cycle of underdevelopment by the global economic system that supports an unequal structure.
a)
Dependency Theory
b)
Deglomeration
c)
Least-Cost Theory
d)
Site Factors
20.
Countries, as defined by world-systems theory, as being dominated by primary sector economic activities and being exploited by other countries for their resources.
a)
Vertical Integration
b)
Service-Based Economies
c)
Technopoles
d)
Peripheral Countries
21.
An industry that is growing earnings and revenue slower than the overall economy.
a)
Bulk-Reducing Industry
b)
Bulk-Gaining Industry
c)
Labor-Intensive Industry
d)
Receding Industry
22.
A sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
a)
Exclusive-Economic Zone
b)
Service-Based Economies
c)
Export-Processing Zone
d)
Localization Economies
23.
Goods and services shipped from a country to another.
a)
Entrepot
b)
NAFTA
c)
Textiles
d)
Exports
24.
The location factors related to the costs of factors of production inside the plant, such as land, labor, and capital.
a)
Site Factors
b)
Technopoles
c)
Embargo
d)
Situation Factors
25.
The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers that can be used to increase price and desirability or distinguish a product from the competition.
a)
Textiles
b)
Value Added
c)
NAFTA
d)
Waste
26.
When two regions specifically satisfy each other's needs through exchange of raw materials and or finished goods.
a)
Consumer Goods
b)
Commodity Chains
c)
Complementary Trade
d)
Specialty Goods
27.
Manufacturing activities in which cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not important for determining the location of the firm. Examples include lightweight products of extremely high value and other industries of spatially fixed costs.
a)
Outsourcing
b)
Footloose Films
c)
Technopoles
d)
Fixed Costs
28.
The ratio of output to input for a given carrier.
a)
Carrier Efficiency
b)
Variable Costs
c)
Market Orientation
d)
Planned Economy
29.
Web-based economic activities.
a)
Core
b)
E-Commerce
c)
BRIC
d)
Exports
30.
Areas where governments create favorable investment and trading conditions to attract export-oriented industries.
a)
Outsourcing
b)
Export-Processing Zone
c)
Entrepot
d)
Least-Cost Theory
31.
Loss of industrial activity in a region
a)
Deindustrialization
b)
Industrial Revolution
c)
Globalization
d)
Market Orientation
32.
A term used to designate a duty free port that is used to store goods for during long distance travel.
a)
Exports
b)
Embargo
c)
Entrepot
d)
Waste
33.
Industries whose products weigh more after assembly than they did previously in their constituent parts. Such industries tend to have production facilities close to their markets.
a)
Bulk-Gaining Industry
b)
Receding Industry
c)
JIC Industry
d)
Cottage Industry
34.
A location where large shipments of goods are broken up into smaller containers for delivery to local markets.
a)
Entrepot
b)
Break-Bulk Point
c)
Technopoles
d)
Globalization
35.
Causes of less productivity and profit in an industry; 7 types include: correction, overproduction, movement, motion, waiting, and processing.
a)
NAFTA
b)
Waste
c)
MINT
d)
BRIC
36.
A business model that emphasizes the elimination of non-value added activities and waste through the implementation of process improvement methods.
a)
Deglomeration
b)
Lean Manufacturing
c)
Situation Factors
d)
Site Factors
37.
The dispersal of an industry that formerly existed in an established agglomeration.
a)
Deglomeration
b)
Agglomeration
c)
Supply Chain
d)
E-Commerce
38.
A form of corporate organization in which one firm controls multiple aspects or phases of a commodity chain.
a)
Vertical Industrialization
b)
Deglomeration
c)
Horizontal Integration
d)
Agglomeration
39.
Highly developed economies that focus on research and development, marketing, tourism, sales, and telecommunications.
a)
Agglomeration Diseconomies
b)
Service-Based Economies
c)
Variable Costs
d)
Localization Economies
40.
Industries that optimize transportation costs by situating close to their customers.
a)
Vertical Integration
b)
Market Orientation
c)
Globalization
d)
Deglomeration
41.
Economic activities consisting of high-level decision making for large corporations, government, or high-level scientific research.
a)
Quinary Economic Activities
b)
Secondary Economic Activities
c)
Tertiary Economic Activities
d)
Quaternary Economic Activities
42.
A three-level hierarchy: core, periphery, and semi-periphery. Core countries are dominant capitalist countries that exploit both the peripheral and semi-peripheral countries for labor and raw materials; semi-periphery exploit the periphery. This European-based economic world-system is thought to have been pushed to the global economy by imperialism and globalization.
a)
Wallerstein's World-Systems Theory
b)
Bid Rent Theory
c)
Hotelling's Model
d)
JIC Inventory
43.
Regulations that require a factory to maintain an 'open shop' policy, maintaining that employees do not have to join a union as a condition of employment.
a)
Site Factors
b)
Footloose Firms
c)
Right-to-Work Laws
d)
E-Commerce
44.
Industries that optimize transportation costs by situating close to their raw materials.
a)
Deglomeration
b)
Resource Orientation
c)
Agglomeration
d)
Vertical Integration
45.
Taxes imposed on imported goods and services that can be used to restrict trade or increase income for a government.
a)
Exports
b)
NAFTA
c)
Tarriffs
d)
Textiles
46.
Economic activities concerned with research, information gathering, and administration.
a)
Situation Factors
b)
Service-Based Economies
c)
Quaternary Economic Activities
d)
Localization Economies
47.
A form of mass production attributed to Henry Ford in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly.
a)
Fordist Approach
b)
Footloose Firms
c)
Maquiladora
d)
Consumer Goods
48.
The free trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
a)
Core
b)
NAFTA
c)
Tarriffs
d)
BRIC
49.
The dramatic changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that enabled the rapid movement of products that began with railroads and the mass production of automobiles and culminated in the building of interstates and the standardization of containers.
a)
Conglomerate Corporation
b)
Transnational Corporation
c)
Transportation Revolution
d)
Resource Orientation
50.
The idea that the price and demand for land decreases as one moves further from the central marketplace.
a)
Situation Factors
b)
Technopoles
c)
Bid Rent Theory
d)
Dependency Theory
51.
The production methodology that stresses the importance of delivering the right product to the right place at the right time in an effort to reduce inventory waste throughout a supply chain.
a)
JIC Inventory
b)
Bulk-Gaining Industry
c)
Receding Industry
d)
Bulk-Reducong Industry
52.
Economic activities in which natural resources are made available for use or further processing, including mining, agriculture, forestry and fishing.
a)
Secondary Economic Activities
b)
Ancillary Industrial Activities
c)
Quinary Economic Activities
d)
Primary Economic Activities
53.
Grouping together of many firms from the same industry in a single area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources.
a)
Embargo
b)
Globalization
c)
Agglomeration
d)
Deglomeration
54.
The adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks
a)
Post-Fordist Approach
b)
Fordist Approach
c)
Commodity Chains
d)
Least-Cost Theory
55.
A form of corporate organization in which several branches of a company or several commonly owned companies work together to sell their products in different markets.
a)
Resource Orientation
b)
Vertical Integration
c)
Globalization
d)
Horizontal Integration
56.
The principle that areas should produce goods for which they have the greatest relative advantage over other areas
a)
Maquiladora
b)
JIC Inventory
c)
Comparative Advantage
d)
Situation Factors
57.
The economic activities concerned with the processing of raw materials such as manufacturing, construction, and power generation.
a)
Primary Economic Activities
b)
Secondary Economic Activities
c)
Ancillary Industrial Activities
d)
Tertiary Economic Activities
58.
An input costs in manufacturing that remains constant wherever production is located.
a)
Spatially Fixes Costs
b)
Situation Factors
c)
Spatially Variable Costs
d)
Fixed Costs
59.
An expense that varies with production output.
a)
Fixed Costs
b)
Growth Poles
c)
Variable Costs
d)
Spatially Variable Costs
60.
A firm that conducts business in at least two separate countries; also known as multinational corporations.
a)
Information Revolution
b)
Transportation Revolution
c)
Transnational Corporation
d)
Urbanization Economies
61.
The dramatic changes in the last half of the twentieth century in which data could be shared across the globe instantaneously through the use of email, the internet, and electronic financial transactions.
a)
Transportation Revolution
b)
Transnational Revolution
c)
Industrial Revolution
d)
Information Revolution
62.
The idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected on a global scale such that smaller scales of political and economic life are becoming obsolete.
a)
Agglomeration
b)
Embargo
c)
Globalization
d)
NAFTA
63.
The rapid economic and social changes in manufacturing that resulted after the introduction of the factory system to the textile industry in England at the end of the 18th century
a)
Industrial Revolution
b)
Information Revolution
c)
Transportation Revolution
d)
Vertical Integration
64.
The semi-peripheral rapidly-industrializing states of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
a)
BRIC
b)
Embargo
c)
Exports
d)
Tarriffs
65.
Activities that provide the market exchange of goods and that bring together consumers and providers of services such as retails, transformation, government, personal, and professional services
a)
Service-Based Economies
b)
Ancillary Industrial Activities
c)
Tertiary Economic Activities
d)
Vertical Integration
66.
The process of sending industrial processes or business services to overseas locations for external processing, where operating costs remain relatively low.
a)
Outsourcing
b)
Core
c)
Tarriffs
d)
BRIC
67.
National or global regions where economic power, in terms of wealth, innovation, and advances technology, are concentrated.
a)
BRIC
b)
MINT
c)
NAFTA
d)
Core
68.
A resource that can be found anywhere at anytime.
a)
Least-Cost Theory
b)
E-Commerce
c)
Fordist Approach
d)
Ubiquitous Resource
69.
The semiperipheral rapidly-industrializing states of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey.
a)
BRIC
b)
MINT
c)
Core
d)
Waste
70.
A type of agglomeration in which industries cluster in urban areas to take advantage of the large labor pool, infrastructure, and public services.
a)
Localization Economies
b)
Urbanization Economies
c)
Service-Based Economies
d)
Agglomeration Diseconomies
71.
The negative economic and social effects stemming from the concentration of industries: traffic, pollution, high cost of living, etc.
a)
Localization Economies
b)
Service-Based Economies
c)
Agglomeration Diseconomies
d)
Agglomeration
72.
The location factors related to the transportation of materials into and from a factory.
a)
Site Factora
b)
Outsourcing
c)
Cottage Industry
d)
Situation Factors
73.
Countries, as defined by world-systems theory, as being dominated by secondary sector economic activities and being exploited by MDCs for their cheap labor for the production of low margin goods.
a)
Peripheral Countries
b)
Cumulative Causation
c)
Semi-Peripheral Countries
d)
Site Factors
74.
Industries whose final products weigh less than their constituent parts, and whose processing facilities tend to be located close to sources of raw materials.
a)
Bid Rent Theory
b)
Receding Industry
c)
JIC Inventory
d)
Bulk-Reducing Industry
75.
An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.
a)
Embargo
b)
Waste
c)
Entrepot
d)
BRIC
76.
A type of agglomeration in which similar industries concentrate together in one area or region.
a)
Situation Factors
b)
Service-Based Economy
c)
Localization Economies
d)
Planned Economy
77.
Describes the optimal location of industry in relation to the costs to transport, labor, and agglomeration - stressing the importance of reducing transportation costs by considering the cost to transport both raw materials and finished goods.
a)
Variable Costs
b)
Ubiquitous Factors
c)
Site Factors
d)
Weber's Least Cost Theory
78.
Factories built by U.S. companies in Mexico near the U.S. border, to take advantage of the low labor costs.
a)
MINT
b)
Core
c)
Maquiladora
d)
Site Factors
79.
The economic term used to describe the positive effect of agglomeration. Increased concentration leads to more services, increased taxes, better infrastructure, and encouragement for more industry.
a)
Globalization
b)
Comparative Advantage
c)
Cumulative Causation
d)
Agglomeration
80.
A firm that is comprised of many smaller firms that serve several different functions
a)
Conglomerate Corporation
b)
Cumulative Causation
c)
Transnational Corporation
d)
Deglomeration
81.
Traditional businesses with actual stores in which trade or retail occurs; it does not exist solely on the Internet.
a)
Break-Bulk Point
b)
Right-to-Work Laws
c)
Commodity Chain
d)
Brick-and-Mortar Business
82.
An input cost in manufacturing that changes significantly from place to place in its total amount and in its relative share of total costs.
a)
Specialty Goods
b)
Site Factors
c)
Spatially Fixed costs
d)
Spatially Variable Costs
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