Defining Characteristics
Sectors of the Economy
Industrialized Effects
Manufactured Questions
Better Know a Berry
100
The process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
What is development?
100
These are the types of jobs within the Primary sector of the economy.
What jobs extract raw materials from the Earth?
Ex: agriculture, mining, fishing, forestry, etc.
100
The _______________ diffusion of the Industrial Revolution spread to Mainland Europe that had coal in the early 1800s and then to other regions without coal between 1800 and 1900.
What is Hierarchical diffusion?
100
This is the definition of a Brownfield site.
What is when industry leaves an area, industrial sites are left abandoned that many times may be polluted?
100
This is Mr. Berry's favorite superhero.
Who is Batman?
200
The theory from 1909 that describes where manufacturing facilities should be placed based on transportation costs, labor costs, and agglomeration advantages.
What is Weber's Least Cost Theory?
200
These are the types of jobs within the Secondary sector of the economy.
What are manufacturing and assembling of raw materials into useful products?
Ex: fabrication of materials into consumer goods
200
This region of the united states is called the "Rust Belt" for this reason.
What is an area that was once categorized by industry (particularly of cars and steel) that has heavily deindustrialized in the present day?
200
These are the countries that make up the acronym BRICS.
What are Brazil, Russia, India, China, & South Africa?
200
This is the name of Mr. Berry's FIRST child.
Who is Brooke?
300
These are the three factors of the Human Development Index.
What is...
- a decent standard of living (wealth)
- a long healthy life (health)
- access to knowledge (education)?
300
These are the types of jobs within the Tertiary sector of the economy.
What are services that allow for the general population to acquire goods and services?
Ex: retailing
300
These are three effects of the image seen below on industrialization around the world.
What are...(answer dependent)?
300
This is where the BRICS countries fall on the World Systems Theory.
What is semi-periphery?
300
The position Mr. Berry was when playing football in high school and college.
What is Wide Receiver?
400
These are the three main categories of determining the GII (Gender Inequality Index).
What are...
- Empowerment (% of seats held by women in legislature & % of women completing high school)
- Labor Force (% of women holding full-time jobs outside the home)
- Reproductive Health (maternal mortality ratio & adolescent fertility rate)
400
These are the types of jobs within the Quaternary sector of the economy.
What are knowledge and skill based jobs for complex processing and handling of information.
Ex: research & development, consulting (for businesses), information technology, etc.
400
These are three of the reasons why the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain.
What is...
-Easy access to coal
-Easy access to sea travel
-Located between Northern and Southern Europe
-Ag Revolution created larger population
-More people moving to cities meant larger labor force
-Easier to feed more people leading to specialization
400
This is the name of foreign-owned factories that sit on the Mexico side of the US-Mexico border.
What are Maquiladoras?
400
This is the number of countries Mr. Berry went to when he was on Semester at Sea.
What is 9?
500
This model is used to explain a certain phenomenon.
What is Rostow's Model which shows the stages of development of different countries and mirrors the trends seen in Wallerstein's World Systems Theory.
500
These are the types of jobs within the Quinary sector of the economy.
What are high level economic and social decision-making?
Ex: hospitality, government, etc.
500
This is how the location of industrial manufacturing has changed since 1950.
What is the fact that less developed countries contribute more to industrial manufacturing since transportation costs after 1950 have dropped?
500
This is how an iPhone is created.
What is...
500
This is the number of 14ers Mr. Berry has climbed.
What is 5?