Industrialization & Economic Development Quiz

What is a tax on imported goods and services?

• Agglomeration

• Tariff

• Outsourcing

• Break-of-bulk

What are foreign owned factories in Northern Mexico that supply manufactured goods primarily to the United States called?

• Maquiladora

• Quaternary sector

• Gross domestic product

• Delindustrialization

What is the motivating impulse to control greater amounts of territory and resources?

• Imperialism

• Gender Inequality Index

• Just-in-time delivery

• Economies of scale

What is a location where cargo is transferred from one mode of transportation to another?

• Gross national income per capita

• Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth

• Break-of-bulk

• Least-cost theory

What is the decline and sometimes complete disappearance of employment in the secondary sector?

• Delindustrialization

• Primary sector

• Formal economy

• Gross domestic product

What are natural resources that Earth will naturally replenish over time?

• Renewable resource

• Industrialization

• Quinary sector

• Human Development Index

Which states underwent industrialization after World War II and have rapidly growing economies?

• Least-cost theory

• Newly industrialized countries

• Gross national income per capita

• Wallenstein's World Systems Theory

What is the part of the economy that is not officially recorded, maintained, or taxed by the government?

• Informal economy

• Tertiary sector

• Quaternary sector

• Gross domestic product

What are industries that extract natural resources from the environment called?

• Secondary sector

• Quinary sector

• Agglomeration

• Primary sector

What is the transfer of part of a business's internal operations to a third party called?

• Outsourcing

• Break-of-bulk

• Sustainable development

• Gender Inequality Index