Major Industrial Cities/Economic Activity
Models
Vocabulary!
Major Industrial Belts
Miscellaneous
100
Draws from the land and therefore are located where resources (forests, minerals, and good soils) are found
What is a primary activity?
100
The main factors to consider when choosing an industrial location
What is variable costs?
100
When so much agglomeration produces a negative effect, resulting in industries leaving a region
What is deglomeration?
100
Where manufacturing in North America began, as early as late colonial times
What is New England?
100
When outsourced work is located outside of the country
What is offshoring?
200
Western and Central Europe, Eastern North American, Russia and Ukraine, and Eastern Asia
What is the four primary industrial regions?
200
Determines the locations of manufacturing, and owners seek a zone of profitability
What is Losch's Model?
200
Where cargo is transported from one mode of transportation to another?
What is the break of bulk point?
200
Japan’s dominant industrial/urbanized region, which contains one-third of Japan’s population
What is the Kanto Plain?
200
An area planned for high technology, located in Western Europe, eastern Asia, North America, and Australia
What is a technopole?
300
The name of the capital with a port located on the Thames River, and was an attractive site for industry because of its major role in the flow of regional and global capital in the 1800s
What is London?
300
The location of an industry cannot be understood without reference to the location of other industries of like kind
What is Hotelling's Model?
300
Rather then keeping a large inventory of components or products, companies keep just what they need for short-production and new parts are shipped quickly when needed
What is just-in-time delivery?
300
A region extending from the northeastern seaboard to Iowa and from the St. Lawrence Valley to the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
What is American Manufacturing (rust) Belt?
300
Activities of the service industry that collect, process, and manipulate information. Examples are insurance, computer services, and legal services.
What are quarternary industries?
400
Series of inventions that brought new energy sources and new machines to improve efficiencies and enable other new inventions
What is the eighteenth century?
400
Eliminated labor mobility and varying wage rates and calculated the "pulls" exerted on each point of manufacturing in his hypothetical region of analysis
Who is Weber?
400
Places where two or more modes of transportation meet in order to ease the flow of goods and reduce the costs of transportation
What is intermodal connections?
400
China’s industrial heartland, a complex of heavy industries based on the region’s coal and iron deposits, in the basin of the Liao River
What is the northeast district?
400
Where components for a single product are made all over the world and shipped to one place, used with just-in-time delivery
What is the global division of labor?
500
Labor force, ideal regional position for the distribution of finished products, presence of governmental agenices, a neary ocean port (Le Havre), France's largest domestic market
What is factors that played a role in Paris's development as a major industrial center?
500
The location of a manufacturing plant in terms of the owner's desire to minimize three categories of costs: transportation, labor, and agglomeration
What is Weber's Least Cost Theory?
500
If a raw material has to be shipped hundreds of miles to a factory, rather than being manufactured next door, _________ increases
What is friction of distance?
500
Europe’s greatest industrial complex, located in Germany. Has high-quality resources, good accessibility, and proximity to large markets
What is the Ruhr?
500
A period in the 18th century marked by new inventions and high capital flow into Europe
What is the Industrial Revolution?
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