Oil in SW Asia
It takes millions of years to form
What is a nonrenewable resource?
True or False: Most primate cities are located on bodies of water.
What is true?
The term describing hiring someone outside a company to do work
What is outsourcing?
Where most of China's population lives
What is the eastern part of the country?
A term for a business that has operations all over the world.
What is multinational corporation?
Wind, solar, hydroelectric power
What are types of renewable energy?
A city that has twice as large a population as the next largest city in a country
What is a primate city?
The factor that is most important for US companies to outsource to India
What is low wages?
a term describing how fast the population is growing each year
What is the rate of natural increase?
A term for the development of a worldwide society in which people, money, information, and goods flow freely from country to country
What is globalization?
An organization created to to keep oil prices steady
What is OPEC?
Constantinople
What is the former name of Istanbul?
The comparative advantage that India has over other countries that might attract IT workers
What is many English speakers?
The creation of SEZ's allowed foreign companies to trade and created more of this in China
What is greater economic freedom?
A tax on goods imported from another country
What is a tariff?
This peninsula has an arid climate and is the largest in the world
What is the Arabian Pennisula?
Ankara
The capital city of Turkey
The reason engineering and IT training has grown in India.
What is the government invested money in technology education?
This was built to provide clean energy in China
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
A term describing countries having strong economic ties and depending on each other for resources, technology, trade and investment.
What is economic interdependence?
This country has the largest oil reserve in South West Asia
What is Saudi Arabia?
The situation that contributes to Istanbul being a primate city.
What is that they are located on important trade routes?
A city that is the hub of IT work in India
What is Bangalore?
China increased it's GDP by creating these
What are SEZ's (specialized economic zones)?
The term that describes the flow of goods and services between countries with few tariffs or government control
What is free trade?