In each blank, try to type in the
word that is missing. If you've
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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: What are the NIC ?
Answer: , China, India, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Vietnam(BRICS) Question: What are the four dragon/tiger countries? for their success?Answer: South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They focused on producing manufacturing goods(Clothing and Electronics). Low labor costs enabled them to sell inexpensively in developed countries. Question: What are the of industry moving to developing countries?
Answer: in manufacturing jobs in Europe, US & other MDC's Question: Where did the Industrial begin? How did it diffuse?Answer: It began in the UK and diffused into mainland Europe(Belgium, Netherlands, & France every 10 years; Last to receive--> Russia & eastern Europe) b/c coal fields connection via water to a port in flow of . Question: What is the clustering of similar industries ?
Answer: agglomeration Question: What are activities? Examples?
Answer: A knowledge based sector that includes research and development, business consulting, services, education, public administration, and software development. Question: What are of semi-periphery countries?
Answer: Chile, Brazil, India, , and Indonesia(MCRIBS) Question: What are ? Where are they located? Advantages to companies?
Answer: They are plants in Mexico near the U.S. border. They receive tax breaks if they ship materials from the U.S., assemble at the plant in Mexico, and export finished product to the U.S. Question: What is the Locational Interdependence Theory?
Answer: competitors, in trying to maximize sales, will seek to constrain each other's territory as much as possible which will therefore lead them to adjacent to one another in the middle of their collective customer base. Question: What are industries?Answer: Home-based found prior to the Industrial Revolution Question: Name the three main site .
Answer: Labor Capital and Land. Main is Labor. Question: Name the main factor.
Answer: /transportation Question: What are bulk gaining industries? Bulk reducing? ?
Answer: makes something that gains weight or volume during production(ex. fabricated metals and beverage production) when inputs weigh more than the final product(ex. Copper mining and ) Question: What are special economic zones? What country are they most in?
Answer: specific area within a country in which tax and investment incentives are implemented to attract (and domestic) businesses and investment. Most common in China & Bangladesh Question: What is ? Where does the US outsource secondary jobs? Tertiary jobs?
Answer: contracting work out to employees or other companies. Mexico, Japan, SK & Germany. Question: What at break of bulk areas? Examples?
Answer: location where transfer among transportation modes is possible(ex. seaports and or truck and boat) Question: Where has the US manufacturing belt been traditionally located? (Specific )
Answer: extends from the seaboard to Iowa and from the St. Lawrence Valley to the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.? Question: What is Immanuel theory? What has hurt the developing countries?
Answer: developed countries form an core area, whereas developing countries occupy peripheral locations? Question: What are the factors the Least Cost Theory is most concerned with? Most factor?
Answer: , Labor and Agglomeration. Transportation Question: What is Rostow’s Model? (all five ) Advantages? Disadvantages?
Answer: model of growth and that all developed economies pass through. Traditional Society, Pre-Condition for Takeoff, Takeoff, Drive to Maturity & High Mass Consumption Question: What are some barriers to investment?
Answer: tariffs, and license Question: What are some weakness to the self- sufficiency ? Advantages?Answer: Inefficient businesses are protected. A large bureaucracy is developed to take care of tariffs, restricting importers, etc.
Investment is spread as equally as possible all sectors of a country's economy and in all regions. Question: What is fair trade? The purpose of fair ?Answer: emphasizes small businesses and owned & democratically run cooperatives & requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organization & comply with minimum environmental & safety standards. Fair wages & better living conditions Question: What are the BRIC ?
Answer: countries expected to dominate global manufacturing. , Russia, India and China Question: What are the G- 7 ?
Answer: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kingdom, US and Canada. Most advanced colonies in the world. Question: What is the effect? Examples?
Answer: When regions suffer of drain of resources and talent because of agglomeration(ex.California's Silicon Valley took most high-tech industry workers so other regions were left without their resources and talents and thus suffered the backwash effect) Question: What are examples of countries mainly primary? Secondary? ?Answer: Primary: Ethiopia
Secondary: : US Question: What is HDI? What make up HDI?Answer: indicator of the of development for each country.
A decent standard of living, long healthy life and access to knowledge. Question: What does right to work mean? Effect? What of the country are mainly impacted? Why?Answer: A worker does NOT have to join a union to get a job. Mainly in Question: What is the NAFTA agreement? How did it US? Mexico?
Answer: agreement entered into by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to eliminate the barriers to trade in, and the cross-border movement of goods and services between the countries. Loss of US jobs. Helped maquiladoras end tariffs. Question: What are Europe’s main industrial areas? Main areas in the world?
Answer: UK, -Ruhr Valley, Mid-Rhine, Po Basin, Northeastern Spain, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Urals, Volga, Kuznetsk, Donetsk and Silesia. Europe, North America and Asia. Question: What is a conglomerate? ?Answer: one massive corporation that owns and operates a collection of companies – might own a bottling company and a food-coloring company( Time Warner, Phillip Morris, Kraft Foods, General Electric, Johnson and Johnson and Walt Disney Company) Question: What is GII and how is it ?Answer: Measures the extent of each country's inequality.
Empowerment, labor and reproductive health. Question: How is US on GII and why?
Answer: it has a low GII ranking b/c reproductive rates are low and percentage of women in the national legislature is much lower than other high HDI Question: SocietyAnswer: Question: for Take-OffAnswer: Question: Take-OffAnswer: Question: to maturityAnswer: Question: High Mass Answer: |
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