AP March 9 Test COPY

Question 1

What does GII stand for?

Answer 1

Gender Inequality Index

Question 2

Historically, where was the industrial heartland of the U.S.?

Answer 2

The North

Question 3

What is break-of-bulk?

Answer 3

Goods change the way they are transported(Air to Ship)

Question 4

What form of transportation is the quickest and most expensive?

Answer 4

Air

Question 5

Where are most right-to-work states?

Answer 5

U.S. South and West

Question 6

What is bulk-reducing industry?

Answer 6

when out-going products weigh less or cost less than incoming resources

Question 7

What is a single market industry?

Answer 7

products sold in one location or to a small group of industries

Question 8

IN the US & Europe, what is industry shifting towards?

Answer 8

Cars, Textiles

Question 9

What are maquiladoras? Where are they? Who owns them?

Answer 9

Countries own companies with factories in other countries, on the us and mexico border, US

Question 10

What is a secondary economic activity?

Answer 10

portion of the economy that is concerned with receiving raw materials and transforming them into serviceable items, properties or other goods

Question 11

Businesses that don’t take into account location are known as what industry?

Answer 11

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Question 12

Where are maquiladoras found? What country and what region of that country?

Answer 12

on the border of the US and Mexico

Question 13

What is the cheapest and slowest form of transportation?

Answer 13

Ship

Question 14

What is lean production? What are pros? Cons?

Answer 14

elimination of waste within a manufacturing system
saves money and time
unbalanced economy

Question 15

What is mass production? What are pros? Cons?

Answer 15

the manufacture of large quantities of standardized products
Less Labor Costs, Fast Production Rate
wasted resources, no assurance

Question 16

What is bulk-gaining industry?

Answer 16

when out going products weigh more or cost more than incoming resources

Question 17

What is cottage industry?

Answer 17

business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person’s home.

Question 18

What is the World System Theory?

Answer 18

an approach to world history and social change that suggests there is a world economic system in which some countries benefit while others are exploited

Question 19

What is GNI?

Answer 19

gross national income(GNI) is the total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of a country

Question 20

What is the tertiary sector of the economy?

Answer 20

provisions of goods and services to people

Question 21

What is the primary economic sector?

Answer 21

activities that directly extract materials from the earth

Question 22

What resources does the US, Russia and Saudi Arabia dominate production of?

Answer 22

Oil

Question 23

What is the footloose industry?

Answer 23

industry that can be located anywhere

Question 24

What does just in time delivery reduce?

Answer 24

waste

Question 25

Where do primary and secondary economic activities take place? Tertiary?

Answer 25

Primary: Where natural resources are located Secondary: where manufacturing takes place Tertiary: Where services take place

Question 26

What process allowed Silicon Valley and the Research Triangle to develop?

Answer 26

Break-of-bulk point

Question 27

Where are good produced in maquiladoras sold?

Answer 27

In the US

Question 28

What are the four levels of HDI?

Answer 28

Developed, High, medium, low

Question 29

What region of the US is experiencing deindustrialization?

Answer 29

North

Question 30

What is the New International Division of Labor?

Answer 30

The term was coined by theorists seeking to explain the spatial shift of manufacturing industries from advanced capitalist countries to developing countries

Question 31

How were goods produced prior to the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 31

manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines

Question 32

What are EPZs? Where are they found?

Answer 32

export-processing zone (EPZ) set up generally in developing countries

Question 33

What is driving deindustrialization?

Answer 33

removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, spreading of industrialization into others areas while it leaves the main area

Question 34

What assumptions does rostow takeoff model make?

Answer 34

countries want to modernize and grow

Question 35

What is the Brandt Line?

Answer 35

an invisible line across the world that divides the rich north from the poor south.

Question 36

What factors have led to the expansion of maquiladoras and other EPZs?

Answer 36

More developing countries encouraging trade and other exports

Question 37

Where was the first, second and third worlds?

Answer 37

First world- Developed countries Second world-Developing countries Third world- all the other countries

Question 38

What is the most fuel efficient method of transportation?

Answer 38

Train

Question 39

What three traits do most just in time delivered goods share?

Answer 39

Reduce waste, reduce time, saves money

Question 40

What is a right-to-work state?

Answer 40

laws prohibit agreements between employers and labor unions

Question 41

What are the Asian Tigers?

Answer 41

Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

Question 42

What type of manufacturing are traditional assembly lines?

Answer 42

Fordism

Question 43

What is a backwash effect example?

Answer 43

the influence that a test has on the way students are taught

Question 44

What is foreign direct investment?

Answer 44

an investment made by a company or individual in one country in business interests in another country

Question 45

What is austerity?

Answer 45

To revive the economy government sharply reduces taxes and severely cuts government spending.

Question 46

What is fair trade?

Answer 46

Policies that favor oversight of foreign direct investment and outsourcing to ensure that workers throughout the world are guaranteed a living wage for their work

Question 47

What are the UN Millennium Goals? What do they all attempt to do?

Answer 47

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Ensure environmental sustainability Develop a global partnership for development Help the world

Question 48

What is another name for a "mom and pop store?"

Answer 48

General store

Question 49

When a company control all, or most, of the means of harvest, move and sell of a good?

Answer 49

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Question 50

What is a cartel?

Answer 50

an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.

Question 51

What is hydraulic fracturing? Where have "fraccidents" happened in the US?

Answer 51

forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure, especially to extract oil or gas. Texas, West Virginia

Question 52

What led to the US energy crisis of 1973?

Answer 52

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Question 53

What country is known for its use of ethanol to power cars?

Answer 53

Brazil