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AP HG U7 Vocabulary 2020-2021

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is the best example of Outsourcing? 
a)
An El Salvadorian immigrant illegally immigrates to the USA to find work
b)
An American Tech Company fires it's American Employees and hires people in Bangladesh to do the same job for 1/4 the cost 
c)
A European worker moves to the USA and gets a high paying job at a tech company. 
d)
An American company decides to change it's steel contracts from Japanese companies to Chinese companies 
2.
What allowed for the creation of Maquiladoras?
a)
NAFTA
b)
NATO
c)
ANSEAN
d)
HDI
3.
Which country would be most likely to advertise Ecotourism? 
a)
South Korea
b)
Costa Rica
c)
China
d)
Netherlands
4.
Why do most restaurants clump together in shopping malls and on busy street corners?
a)
Agglomeration
b)
Ease of Access
c)
More Capital
d)
Laws of Location 
5.
Where was the hearth of the Industrial revolution? 
a)
Germany
b)
USA
c)
Russia
d)
England
6.
Targets generally have Best Buys, Sally Beauty Salons, Famous Footwear, JC Penny, & Petsmarts near them. This is known as what? 
a)
Maquiladora Industires
b)
Just-in-time planning
c)
Agglomerations
d)
Outsourcing
7.

the ability of a group to carry out an economic activity more efficiently than another economic activity

a)

Comparative advantage

b)

Mercosur

c)

World Trade Organization (WTO)

d)

Multiplier Effects

e)

Neoliberal policies

8.
Which economic measure of development divides the total value of goods and services produced within a country in a given year by its population?
a)
GDP
b)
GDP per capita 
c)
Purchasing Power Parity 
d)
GINI coefficient
9.
Created by Wallerstein to show that the world is interconnected and that we are all interdependent on each other.  Divides us into three tiers of economic prosperity.
a)
Dependency Theory
b)
Neo liberal counterrevolution
c)
structural adjustment loan
d)
World Systems theory
10.

in World's Systems Analysis, the ___________________are the least economically developed countries that have little influence over the world's economy

a)

Core

b)

Periphery

c)

Semi-Periphery

d)

Least Developed

e)

Third world countries

11.

The EPZs (Export processing zones) found in Mexico are known as

a)

free zones

b)

special economic zones

c)

urban enterprise zones

d)

maquiladoras

e)

backwash regions

12.

What stage of production is concerned with activities such as finance and banking?

a)

primary

b)

secondary

c)

tertiary

d)

quarternary

e)

quinary

13.

Which of the following includes only aspects of tertiary production?

a)

finance, mining, transportation

b)

transportation, wholesaling, retailing

c)

agriculture, energy, fisheries

d)

forestry, processing, fabrication

e)

tourism, entertainment, communications

14.

Fishing, farming, forestry, and mining are part of which economic sector?

a)

primary

b)

secondary

c)

tertiary

d)

quaternary

e)

quinary

15.

Free-trade zones such as the countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are established to increase the ease and volume of international trade by

a)

increasing diplomatic relations between member states

b)

opening borders to migrant guest workers from member states

c)

establishing a common monetary unit among member states

d)

offering large economic-development loans to poorer member states

e)

eliminating tariffs on goods that cross borders between member states

16.

Alfred Weber's Least Cost Theory takes into account all of the following EXCEPT:

a)

locating markets close to raw materials.

b)

transportation costs.

c)

weight of raw materials.

d)

agglomeration costs.

e)

consumer demand for the finished product.

17.
A company which uses more than one mode of transport will often locate near what?
a)
Factory
b)
Consumer Products 
c)
Raw materials 
d)
Break-of-bulk Point
18.
If a product is heavier when it arrives at the factory than when it leaves (trees--> paper, potatoes-->chips) then the factory will be ____________ to the market
a)
closer
b)
farther 
19.
What makes up the human development index?
a)
life expectancy
b)
per capita income
c)
education level and literacy rate
d)
all of the above
20.
What does the human development index of a country tell us? 
a)
the qualify of life in a country
b)
 the quantity of life in a country
21.
What is per capita income?
a)
the total amount of money a country makes in a year
b)
the average amount of money earned by each person in a country
c)
the amount of capital a person owns
d)
none of the above 
22.
Newly industrialized countries (NICs) like Brazil and Mexico are considered part of the 
a)
Core
b)
Periphery
c)
Semi-Periphery
d)
External
23.
Whose development model consists of a 5 stage process that countries go through as they develop economically?
a)
Losch 
b)
Rostow 
c)
Wallerstein 
d)
Weber
24.
Which types of countries' economies rely primarily on primary economic activities?
a)
Core Countries
b)
NICs
c)
Semi-Periphery Countries
d)
Periphery Countries
25.
Mexico, China, Russia, India, Brazil, and South Africa are all
a)
peripheral countries
b)
MDCs
c)
core countries
d)
semi-peripheral countries
26.
What is GNI?
a)
Gross National Income - the amount of money a country makes
b)
Grand National Industry - the biggest industry in a country
27.
Which of the following might best characterize the Maquiladora districts in Mexico
a)
Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
b)
Export Processing Zones (EPZ)
c)
Islands of Development
d)
Trade Districts
28.
a)
Weber's Least Cost Theory
b)
Nash Equilibrium
c)
Losch's Zone of Profitability
d)
Hotelling's Locational Interdependence Theory
29.
An area where labor laws and environmental laws are relaxed and taxes are lowered
a)
Special Economic Zone (SEZ)
b)
Export Processing Zone (EPZ)
c)
Free Trade Zone (FTZ)
d)
Island of Development
30.
Manufacturing system that relies on highly educated workers, doing complex tasks with a high degree of flexibility.
a)
Fordism
b)
Toyotaism
c)
Post-Fordism
d)
Assembly Line
31.

Establishment of government quotas on imports (e.g. cotton shirts or steel) to the U.S. has led to

a)

a decrease in Chinese shirt production.

b)

an increase in Chinese wages.

c)

a collapse of the U.S. market for shirts.

d)

a shifting of production from country to country in the periphery and semi-periphery.

32.

__________ give loans to poor people, preferably women, to encourage development of small businesses.

a)

NGOs

b)

Microcredit programs

c)

Structural adjustment loans

d)

Maquiladoras

33.

GNI is a limited measure because it only includes transactions in the formal economy.

a)

True

b)

False

34.

GNI per capita only measures outputs, so it does not take into account externalities like environmental damage (e.g., resource depletion, air pollution).

a)

True

b)

False

35.

World systems theory is different than Rostow's Modernization model in that it

a)

focused on context/relationships b/w countries

b)

states poor countries CAN NOT be equally wealthy as rich countries

c)

makes explicit power relationships

d)

all of these

36.

Countries that have both low levels of HDI and also high younger-person dependency ratios?

a)

core

b)

island of development

c)

semi-periphery

d)

periphery

37.

resources should be conserved so that people living today can meet their needs without limiting the ability of future generation

a)

Globalization

b)

Capitalism

c)

Socialism

d)

Sustainable Development

38.

Which of the following development schools of thought advocates the best strategies for development are the use of micro loans for women and the poor, small-scale community based projects, and resource conservation?

a)

A) Appropriation.

b)

B) Dependency.

c)

C) Modernization.

d)

D) Sustainable development

39.

Ecotourism is most closely associated with which of the following development theories?

a)

A) Appropriation.

b)

B) Dependency.

c)

C) Neoliberal Counterrevolution.

d)

D) Sustainable development

40.

Which of the following best describes the objective of ecotourism?

a)

A) Transform and exploit the natural beauty of an area into a tourist destination.

b)

B) Create an environmentally-friendly tourist destination in an attempt to maintain the unique qualities of the region

c)

C) Create a small-scale representation of an environment to replace the previous environment which existed prior to tourism.

d)

D) Develop the economy of an area with tourist attractions.

41.
Why was OPEC created?
a)
To regulate the supply and price of oil
b)
to help the Palestinians in their problems with Israel
c)
to design new machinery to get oil out of the ground
d)
to keep countries that are not members from producing any oil
42.
What is the most important job of the WTO?
a)
Resolve trade disputes
b)
Set oil prices
c)
Support developing countries
d)
Decide on border disputes
43.

Shipment of parts and materials to arrive at a factory moments before they are needed

a)

Just-in-time delivery

b)

Labor-intensive industry

c)

Cottage Industry

d)

Bulk-reducing industry

44.

Transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid, less-skilled workers, from more developed to less developed countries.

a)

Apparel

b)

Acid deposition

c)

Greenhouse effect

d)

New International Division of Labor

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