Pretest 6

Question 1

In the 1700’s, water pollution increased significantly when the chemical industry began to contribute to the textile industry through methods of

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Bleaching and dyeing

Question 2

The industrial revolution began in

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The late 1700s

Question 3

The most important improvement in the eighteenth century was the

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Canal

Question 4

Approximately three-fourths of the worlds industrial production is concentrated in three regions, including which of the following

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Eastern North America and northwestern Europe

Question 5

Western European principal industrial areas include all of the following EXCEPT

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Portugal and western Spain

Question 6

The main source of power for steam engines and blast ovens is produced from

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Coal

Question 7

What mining region has the most varied mineral deposits of the world, with over 1,000 minerals?

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The Ural Mountains

Question 8

A copper concentration mill tends to locate near a copper mine because it is a

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Bulk-reducing industry

Question 9

Metal fabrication plants are an example of a bulk-gaining industry because

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Desperate parts are combined to make more complex and massive products

Question 10

Situation costs are critical to a firm that wishes to

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Minimize transport costs

Question 11

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

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Markets for finished automobiles

Question 12

Eastern North America became the continents manufacturing center in part because it had access to the continents

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Largest markets

Question 13

The US steel industry moved westward in the nineteenth century primarily because of the better access to

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Iron ore

Question 14

A company which uses more than one ______ will offer locate near break-of-bulk points.

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Mode of transport

Question 15

In order to become a global industrial power, Japan had to overcome which of the following problems

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Distance from consumers

Question 16

Although transportation costs rise because breaks in transportation, we can surmise that over very long distances the lowest-cost form of transporting goods by

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Ship

Question 17

As a country’s per capita income increases, it’s per capita carbon dioxide emissions

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Also increases

Question 18

Despite the risks to the environment, the US gulf coast has become an important industrial area because of

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Access to oil and natural gas fields

Question 19

Both Europe and the United States have seen inter regional shifts of manufacturing, but one difference is

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In Europe, government policies have encouraged relocation

Question 20

Twenty-three US states have so called “right-to-work” laws that

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Cause a great deal of trouble for labor unions attempting to organize workers and bargain with employers

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Medicos maqiladora plants

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Have an advantage or proximity to US markets

Question 22

Maintaining control over all phases of a highly complex production process, as opposed to outsourcing, is known as

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Vertical integration

Question 23

The new international division of labor reflects the growing importance of

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Outsourcing

Question 24

What two location Factors influence more industries to remain in the northeastern United States and northwestern Europe

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Skilled labor and rapid delivery to market

Question 25

In contrast to fording production, post-for dust production is more likely to

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Introduce more flexible work rules

Question 26

A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found close together is what kind of settlement

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Clustered rural

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Consumer services include

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Health and social, professional, and financial service jobs

Question 28

Most people in the world live in what type of settlement

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Urban settlement

Question 29

The area surrounding a service from which costumes are attracted to is the

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Hinterland

Question 30

The maximum distance people are willing to travel from a service is

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Range

Question 31

If a country’s largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city had 200,00 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution

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Primate city

Question 32

If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants how many people live in the fifth largest city

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200,000

Question 33

The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the

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Threshold

Question 34

The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is

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Directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it

Question 35

The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the

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Gravity model

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Central place theory predicts larger settlements are

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Less numerous and farther apart

Question 37

In a linear community, we can deduce that the best location for a service is the

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Median

Question 38

Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of

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Economic, political, cultural, and infrastructure factors

Question 39

The attraction of the outsourced “offshore banking” industry can best be explained by

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Bank secrecy laws and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries

Question 40

LDC’s specialize in what two types of gal all business services

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Offshore financial and back office

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What factors determine where back office services will locate in LDC’s

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Low wage rates and workers who can speak English

Question 42

Which of the following is most likely a basic economy activity

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Steel mill

Question 43

The most significant impact that great Britains enclosure movement made on the rural landscape was to

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Produce more of a dispersal rural settlement pattern

Question 44

Heterogeneity is more a characteristic of

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Urban centers than rural communities

Question 45

The cottage industry system involved manufacturing

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In the home