With reference to production, to turn over in part or in total to a third party (a different place)
What is outsourcing
100
the name of the geographer associated with the least cost theory
Who is Alfred Weber
100
Four primary industrial regions
What is Eastern North America, Western and Central Europe, Russia and Ukraine, Eastern Asia
100
DAILY DOUBLE
The title of this chapter
What is "Chapter 12 Industry and Services"
100
# one steel producing country
What is China
200
places where two or more means of transportation meet
(trains, cars, planes, etc)
What is intermodal connections
200
DAILY DOUBLE
his model identifies the zone of profitabiblity
Who is Losch
200
the two countries where industry first took root in East Asia
What is China and Japan
200
the amount of timeit took for industrialization to diffuse from Great Britian to Eastern Europe
(map on pg. 366)
What is roughly 40 years
200
a high tech corridor where technology is researched and established (Silicon Valley)
What is a technopole
300
the clustering of people or activities where businesses benefit from close proximity to services and products provided by other businesses
What is agglomeration
300
location of an industry cannot be understood without reference to the location of other industries of like kind.
What is Locational Interdependence (Hotelling's Model)
300
this manufacturing belt contains the Kanto Plain which is the second biggest metropolis on Earth
(hint: this belt is in Asia)
What is Japanese manufacturing belt
300
the two things that industrial zones needed to be located near in Europe
What are coal fields and a port
300
The world's third largest steel producing country
What is China
400
the affects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction
What is distance decay
400
three categories of costs associated with the least cost theory
What is transportation, labor, and agglomeration
400
two world events that caused the United States to emerge as the world's industrial power
What is WWI and WWII
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Silicon Valley is the headquarters of these major companies
(name two)
What is Google, Apple, etc....
400
The name given to Nizhni Novgorod because of its huge automobile factories. (named after an American city)
What is Soviet Detroit
500
phenomenon whereby corporations and others can draw from labor markets around the world, make possible by the compression of time and space through innovaton in communication and transportation systems
What is global division of labor
500
geographer who worked to determine the locations businesses could choose to maximize profit
(used two variables price and space in his model)
Who is Losch
500
an example of a break of bulk point in Merica is...
(the one mentioned in the book)
What is New York
500
with the help of cast iron and the steam engine, this tranportation method was placed all over Europe in the early 1800's
What is the railroad
500
FOR MS. PRIEWE ONLY...
the nineteenth word in the third paragraph on page 365
....NO CHEATING..... (please sign the imaginary honor code)