Vocab
Export processing centers located on the US/Mexican border that take advantage of low cost labor are called.
What are Malquiladoras?
The 3 major parts of Wallerstein's Dependency Model are. Bangladesh would be considered.
What is Core Periphery Semi-Periphery? What is periphery?
A country would try to deindustrialize because it wants to:
What is make way for another sector of the economy such as tertiary (quinary/quaternary)?
The Rhine-Rhur Valley is an example of a major industrial area in:
What is Western Europe or Germany?
Give an example of a Primary Economic Occupation
What is a miner? (no service jobs)
In Weber's Least Cost Theory what did he say was the leading cost factor in plant location?
What is transportation?
The Drug trade would be a good example of this type of economy.
What is an informal economy or the black market?
The most expensive type of transportation for manufactured goods is:
What is Air Travel?
An example of a "Footloose Industry" would be:
What are call centers? Answers will vary (low labor)
This theory states that LDCs do not have healthy economies because MDCs exploit them.
What is the Dependency theory? (alternatively what is Wallerstein's World Systems theory?)
TWO PARTS: Name two statistics that are looked at to get a countries HDI.
What are life expectancy, education (years of schooling) GNI (income) ?
Name the Four Asian Tigers/Dragons.
Who are South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong?
This movie won Best Picture, Best Actor, almost best EVERYTHING this year at the Academy Awards.
TWO PARTS: The clustering of industries and firms that depend on each other or are related in some way is called and the tech example in San Francisco is...
What is agglomeration? What is Silicon Valley?
The "Drive to Maturity" stage in Rostow's Model would support workers in this economic sector.
What is manufacturing or secondary?
TWO PARTS: The Industrial Revolution began in what country and spread which CARDINAL DIRECTION FIRST!
What is England and what is East (France and the Netherlands due to the gravity model)?
TWO PARTS: This country used SEZs to create the largest manufacturing region in the world. This SEZ is specifically known for its work in computing technology.
What is China? What is Shenzhen?
TWO PARTS: The process of transferring cargo from one mode of transportation to another. A specific example of this process.
What is Break of Bulk Point? What is when you transfer a container from a ship to a truck (answers may vary for example)?
Rostow's final stage in his modernization models ends in this.
What is Mass Consumption?
MULTIPLE PARTS: Give an example of a occupation paired with each economic sector: Primary Secondary Tertiary Quaternary and Quinary
What are:
Primary- Farming
Secondary- Welding Steel
Tertiary- Teacher Quaternary
Quinary-College President
ANSWERS MAY VARY
This country has re-emerged post Covid as a strong trading partner to the United States due to its gravity AND lower priced labor force.
What is Mexico?
This person broke the NBAs all time scoring record.
Who is Lebron James?