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Question 1:

Economic activities concerned directly with the collection and utilization of natural resources are called ________.
a) primary activities
b) secondary activities
c) tertiary activities
d) quaternary activities
e) None of the above.

Question 2:

Secondary activities are ________.
a) economic activities that collect and utilize natural resources and raw materials
b) economic activities that handle and process knowledge and information
c) economic activities involving the sale, distribution, and exchange of goods
d) economic activities that process, transform, fabricate, or assemble raw materials
e) None of the above.

Question 3:

A material index is ________.
a) a measure that assumes that the cost of transport of materials is a direct function of their desirability
b) a measure that shows to what degree a firm’s least-cost location will be material- or market-oriented
c) a measure that assumes that human and physical geography are discontinuous and variable, which impacts the cost of goods
d) a measure that assumes that economic competition exists but is imperfect
e) a measure that describes how industrial activities actually operate in space, rather than being prescriptive

Question 4:

The situation in which a single producer sells the entire output of an industrial good or service in a given area is called ________.
a) locational interdependence
b) a spatial monopoly
c) a market-area monopoly
d) agglomeration
e) an isodapane

Question 5:

The primary fuel used at the start of the Industrial Revolution was ________.
a) conventional oil
b) whale oil
c) coal
d) charcoal
e) solar power

Question 6:

The Industrial Revolution sparked ________.
a) economic growth
b) the growth of urban centres
c) population growth
d) an age of imperial expansion
e) All of the above.

Question 7:

Newly industrializing countries include ________.
a) Japan, the United States of America, and Russia
b) Brazil, South Korea, and Greece
c) Montenegro, Hungary, and Colombia
d) Canada, Belgium, and Italy
e) Ukraine, Russia, and Japan

Question 8:

Original major industrial regions are ________.
a) Japan, the United States of America, and Russia
b) Brazil, South Korea, and Greece
c) Montenegro, Hungary, and Colombia
d) Canada, Belgium, and Italy
e) Ukraine, Russia, and Japan

Question 9:

The first transnational corporations arose during ________.
a) Fordism
b) post-Fordism
c) globalization
d) industrial restructuring
e) deindustrialization

Question 10:

The major consequence of deindustrialization, which is a reduction in manufacturing, is ________.
a) loss of access to enough manufactured products to respond to demand
b) significant migration to the deindustrialized area; no factory means a more pleasant living space
c) fast and effective regional development of knowledge industries and tourism
d) economic depression and unacceptably high unemployment in the deindustrialized area
e) reduction of investment in service industries in favour of redeveloping manufacturing

Higher Education

Human Geography 8e: Chapter 14