Rather than keeping a large inventory of components or products, companies keep just what they need for short-term production and new parts are shipped quickly when needed.
What is just-in-time delivery?
100
Japan has developed its industrial economy due to its abundant supplies of coal and iron ore.
False, because Japan must import many of its matierals. Japan is almost totally dependant on oil from distant sources.
100
In 2008, Saudi Arabia and this country were the world’s two largest oil producers.
What is Russia?
100
Over 50% of the goods entering Europe come through two ports in this country.
What is the Netherlands?
200
Places where two or more modes of transportation meet (including air, road, rail, barge, and ship), in order to ease the flow of goods and reduce the costs of transportation.
What are intermodal connections?
200
Global division of labor is a feature of post-Fordist stage of industrialization.
True, time-space compression has fundamentally altered the global division of labor. When the world was less interconnected, most goods were produced close to the point of consumption. (see "just-in-time delivery")
200
During the 1970s, U.S. television manufacturers began to move productions “offshore” to places such as special zones on the Mexican border.
What is Maquiladoras
200
U.S. oil reserves are estimated to be this percent of the world's total.
What is 8%?
300
Where corporations and others can draw from labor markets around the world.
What is global division of labor?
300
The Seto Inland Sea is an important route-way and focal point of Japan's industry.
True, because the Seto Inland Sea provides a water-way from Honshu to Kyushu, two major industrial regions of Japan.
300
Current amounts of goods and resources moving in the global system would be impossible without this invention.
What is the Container system?
300
This country is almost completely dependent upon imported oil/natural gas.
What is Japan.
400
Mass production of standardized goods using assembly line techniques.
What is Fordist?
400
Over 300 regional trade organizations are in existence today
What is True
400
Television research and design take place here.
What is core area?
400
The type of manufacturing is more likely to be located in peripheral countries.
What is Labor-intensive?
500
Fast, flexible production of small lots with outsourcing around the world.
What is post-Fordist?
500
The shift from coal to oil explains the recent industrialization of the Middle East.
What is True
500
By 1990, this was the only American company that was making color television sets.
What is Zenith
500
Labor moved to these areas to take advantage of lower labor costs.