Industrial Basics
This "Index" uses the price of a specific food to compare the cost of living and purchasing power globally. What is the name of the "Index"?
The Big Mac Index
This is the most common mode of transportation for short distance travel.
Truck
This term describes the decline in industrial jobs in older cities due to automation and moving shops.
Deindustrialization
In this type of industry, the raw materials weigh more than the final product, so factories locate near the inputs.
Bulk-gaining industry
This pollution is diffuse, flowing across the land from multiple sources such as agricultural runoff or urban streets, often carried by rainwater.
Non-point source pollution
The Industrial Revolution first began in this part of the world during the 18th century. Which part of the world?
Northern England/Southern Scotland
While slow, this method is used for shipping goods because it has a very low cost per mile.
Ship (Cargo ship)
This source of water pollution enters a body of water at a single, specific location.
Point-Source Pollution
This process involves middle-class people moving into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovating housing.
Gentrification
True or False?: CO2 levels in the atmosphere have risen by over 40% in the last 200 years.
False, it's 25%
This "revolution" refers to improvements in technology that transformed how goods are manufactured.
The Industrial Revolution
This is the most expensive but fastest mode of transporting goods.
Air(plane)
These protective gases in the atmosphere are threatened by pollutants called CFCs.
Ozone Layer
According to this rule, the nth largest city in a country is 1/n the size of the largest city.
Rank-Size Rule
Industrialization: This economic shift began with companies fleeing older industrial cities for their suburbs. (True or False)
False, it's Deindustrialization
These are the three main global regions where industry is currently concentrated.
Europe, North America, and East Asia
Because inputs weigh more than the final products, plant location is near market or near their raw material sources to reduce transportation costs. How is the industry called?
Bulk-reducing industry.
This phenomenon, caused by rising CO2 levels, is anticipated to raise Earth's temperature.
Greenhouse effect
Weber's Least Cost Theory focuses on energy, labor costs, and this third factor.
Transportation costs
True or False?: Manufacturing plants in Mexico near the U.S. border are known as maquiladoras.
True
These "site factors" are the three most important components of industrial location.
Land, Labor and Capital
Companies specializing in perishable products must be located ________ that the product does not spoil or become dated during transportation.
Near their market
This is the name for industrial plants that move to escape Union regulations or state laws.
Runway shops
This term describes when similar businesses locate near each other for mutual benefit, like fast food on an interstate.
Agglomeration
Industry is a major polluter of air, ____, and water, because the production of goods and services also produce some degree of waste.
Land