9 & 10 Review
Section 1
Planes, Trains, Automobiles
Section 4
Random
100
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the:
What is total value of outputs of goods & services produced in a country during a year?
100
Goods made in the home are known as this type of industry.
What is cottage industry?
100
Producers of automobiles select assembly plant locations primarily for their closer access to this.
What are markets for finished automobiles?
100
This eliminated tariffs on goods and services traded across the borders of Mexico, Canada, & the US.
What is NAFTA?
100
States that have laws that make it more difficult for unions to organize workers & bargain with employers are known as this type of state.
What are "right-to-work" states?
200
This is what the Gender Inequality Index does:
What is compares the indicators of gender inequality of females to males within a country?
200
This is where the industrial revolution began.
What is Great Britain?
200
This is why the Chicago area became a significant asset for the Western Great Lakes region owing to its steel industries and this.
What is access to the nation's transportation network?
200
This is the type of manufacturing which involves the coordinated assembly of products as supplies and parts are received and thus reduces production costs and decreases inventory space.
What is just-in-time production?
200
This is the most important factor in locating an industry according to Weber's model.
What is cost of transportation?
300
The type of agriculture primarily found in humid low-latitude regions.
What is shifting/ slash & burn cultivation?
300
This is when the industrial revolution began.
What is the late 1700s?
300
Becuase the motor vehicle assembly industry is typically bulk-gaining & involves just-in-time delivery, this is the most important factor when selecting a location for a new assembly plant.
What is being close to the market / minimizing the cost of shipping finished vehicles to its customers?
300
More flexible work rules is a characteristic of this type of production.
What is Post-Fordist production?
300
This is the capital of Rwanda.
What is Kigali?
400
This type of agriculture creates a system where crops provide the food for livestock and the livestock provides manure for crop fertilization.
What is mixed crop (crop & livestock) agriculture?
400
This is the mining region that has the most varied mineral deposits of the world with over 1,000 different types.
What are the Ural Mountains?
400
New US automobile assembly plants have been built primarily in these regions.
What is the Midwest and South (to minimize distribution costs and labor competition)?
400
These two factors influence more industries to remain in the northeastern United States and northwestern Europe.
What is skilled labor and rapid delivery to market?
400
This is how much the Earth's surface temperature has increased since 1880.
What is 1 degree?
500
This is the term used in the US to describe how many farm are integrated into a large food production industry.
What is agribusiness?
500
This is the step of the copper production process that involves the crushing and grinding of particles.
What is concentration?
500
Containerization was developed to facilitate long-distance transport by this method before transferring to trucks and trains.
What is by ship?
500
The new international division of labor reflects the growing importance of this.
What is outsourcing?
500
In order to become a global industrial power, Japan had to overcome this problem.
What is distance from consumers?
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