Industry

Using a global scale, which of the following regions would not be considered a major manufacturing region during the 20th century? 

• Eastern China
• Northwest United States
• Eastern Europe
• Southern India

Which of the following factors does not help explain why steel manufacturing facilities in the United States have increasingly been located in a coastal city location?

• The decreasing cost of transporting iron ore. 
• Scrap metal is widely available in city locales. 
• A large demand for steel exists in large coastal cities around the world. 
• There is a shortage of iron ore in the interior United States.

Many United States high tech companies have been outsourcing many of their technical support and other tertiary jobs to which of the following countries? 

• India
• China
• South Africa
• Saudi Arabia

Which of the following best explains why many companies continue to locate factories in traditional manufacturing regions like the northeast United States and Western Europe?

• Low labor costs and loose environmental laws. 
• Large pool of skilled labor and quick delivery to large markets. 
• Stable government and low labor costs. 
• Weak unions and stringent environmental laws. 

All of the following are true of fossil fuels except 

• they are distributed unevenly around the globe. 
• the supply of fossil fuels is finite (limited). 
• the cost of fossil fuels will likely rise as global demand increases and reserves decline.
• the wealthiest countries have the greatest deposits of fossil fuels. 

 Computer technical support jobs are increasingly being outsourced to India, because of improvements in telecommunication technology. Which term best exemplifies this trend? 

• Space-time compression. 
• Agglomeration
• Absolute distance
• Multiplier effect

Weber’s least cost location theory uses all of the following factors to determine optimum location of a manufacturing facility except 

• labor cost
• transportation cost
• agglomeration effects
• global division of labor

The most important transportation improvement of the late 20th and early 21st century impacting international trade is 

• increased speed and efficiency of airplanes. 
• improvements in intermodal containerization. 
• decreased reliance on transportation using fossil fuels. 
• improved major highway systems in United States and Europe.          

Which of the following is the best example of a bulk reducing industry? 

• Automobile assembly
• Copper mining
• Toy manufactoring
• Soft-drink bottling

In the context of industrial location, which of the following best describes the concept of situation? 

• The number of jobs that an industry will create in a region. 
• The location of an industry in relation to other industries. 
• A force that attracts industries to a specific location. 
• The location of an industry in relation to resources used in production including its market.