Deck 16: Geographies of Production and Consumption

Question 1

Regarding per capita earnings on the map of the U.S.in 1950, what region was in the lowest category?

A)the northeast
B)the southeast
C)the southwest
D)the Great Plains states

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which might be a backward linkage with regard to the production of an automobile?

A)where the auto will be sold
B)the emissions the completed auto will output
C)how the auto will eventually be recycled
D)the iron ore which was mined and made into the auto's engine

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In the Anglo American manufacturing region in the northeastern United States, textiles were a prominent industry on the east coast.What was the prominent industry around Chicago?

A)textiles also
B)food processing
C)steel and metals
D)grain processing

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Industrialization diffused rather slowly because

A)the British jealously guarded industrial secrets and processes.
B)other parts of the world wanted nothing to do with these processes.
C)Britain wanted to hang on to its agricultural heritage as well.
D)outside Britain, only France was to eventually industrialize.

Question 5

Regarding the Anglo American manufacturing belt today compared to 1900

A)much of the Great Lakes/Midwest core is still intensely industrial.
B)almost none of the Great Lakes region is now industrial.
C)the majority of industry has shifted to Ontario and Quebec in Canada.
D)none of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 6

Which were not factors in Britain being the center of the Industrial Revolution?

A)locations near excellent transport on the Great Lakes
B)the transport centers of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
C)the great European centrality of the capital of London
D)availability of raw materials and Britain as already wealthy

Question 7

Steam engines ultimately drove which of the following which also drove the industrial revolution?

A)crop winnowing and harvesting
B)textile production and railway engines
C)house and tenement construction
D)road and highway development

Question 8

By about 1900 the Anglo American manufacturing belt extended

A)from Boston to Washington, D.C.on the eastern seaboard.
B)from San Diego to San Francisco in central and southern California.
C)from Atlanta to Jacksonville in Georgia and Florida.
D)from the eastern seaboard through the Great Lakes.

Question 9

Which would most likely to be locations of high-tech computer and software industries?

A)the east coast and the west coast
B)the Midwest
C)the Great Plains
D)the Deep South

Question 10

Processes of ____________ spurred demand for more goods as quantities rose and prices dropped.

A)political demarcation
B)supply
C)mass production
D)industrial relocation

Question 11

The location of traditional steel plants in the United States was a result of

A)automobile production in Detroit.
B)trying to get newer industry away from east coast ports.
C)a general westward shift in industry toward California.
D)central locations between Great Lakes iron and Appalachian coal.

Question 12

Production of petroleum in the continental U.S.in terms of number of oil and gas wells, has centered in ______________ according to the map.

A)Texas and Oklahoma
B)Alaska
C)California and Hawaii
D)the traditional Great Lakes/Midwest industrial area

Question 13

Beginning industry in the interior of the United States was often the result of

A)many paved and concrete roads being constructed.
B)delivery of goods by Interstate Highway.
C)the development of the rail network.
D)the establishment of a mill on a stream for water power.

Question 14

Manufacturing is a production chain that

A)delivers finished goods to market.
B)rarely exists outside of the United Kingdom.
C)takes raw materials and transforms them into finished products.
D)binds workers in an unbearable labor environment.

Question 15

What has been one major change in the location of automobile industry assembly plants over the last 50 years in the U.S.?

A)they have remained mainly in the Detroit/Michigan area
B)they have steadily moved westward to the L.A.and San Francisco areas
C)they have steadily moved into the upland and Deep South
D)they have moved into Florida

Question 16

The location of textile mills in the northeastern United States was found mainly

A)at the intersections of canals with ports.
B)at Atlantic port cities and their surrounding areas.
C)at cities surrounding the Great Lakes.
D)at the confluence of inland rivers, like at Pittsburgh.

Question 17

After Britain industrialized the next in line were

A)Belgium, France, and Germany.
B)the U.S.and Japan.
C)Russia and Poland.
D)Australia and New Zealand.

Question 18

The development of the steam engine was a main event powering

A)the agricultural revolution.
B)the industrial revolution.
C)agricultural diffusion.
D)none of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 19

Many Mexican 'maquiladora' plants are found

A)in Arizona and New Mexico.
B)deep into Mexico, near Mexico City.
C)in Mexico right on the border with the United States.
D)in Puerto Rico.

Question 20

Alfred Weber developed a model of plant location saying that a factory would be located

A)near a port.
B)near a transport break.
C)at a centralized location between raw materials and the market.
D)at a large city.

Question 21

Silicon Valley is a good example of

A)the rust belt.
B)traditional U.S.manufacturing.
C)a high technology cluster.
D)a steel region.

Question 22

Social activities that occur regardless of where they are located refers to

A)territoriality.
B)separatism.
C)autonomy.
D)deterritorialization.

Question 23

Which of the following provide more federal money compared to what they absorb?

A)Colorado and Wyoming
B)Alaska and West Virginia
C)New Jersey and Nevada
D)Alabama and Kentucky

Question 24

Arrows on the map representing colonial control and that era are focused in

A)the Pacific.
B)the Atlantic.
C)the Indian Ocean.
D)the Arctic.

Question 25

Conspicuous consumption is

A)when a population mainly eats outside.
B)when a culture sees its automobiles as cultural markers with personalities.
C)when people display status by ostentatiously showing off their material goods.
D)when a culture accepts masques and costumes trying to hide its true identity.

Question 26

One example of a trans-national corporation which acquired another trans-national corporation in a different country (but later split from it) was

A)IBM taking over Google.
B)AT&T taking over T-Mobile.
C)Mercedes-Benz taking over Chrysler.
D)Airbus taking over Boeing.

Question 27

As a diversified multi-national corporation, German Bayer

A)has most of its production facilities in Germany and the U.S.
B)has factories spread mainly through Europe.
C)has facilities on every continent.
D)has offices and labs mainly only in New York City.

Question 28

Agglomeration economies occur when

A)technology flees a country in a 'brain drain' situation.
B)technology enters a country with new migrant streams.
C)one type of industry feeds on another causing 'snowballing' development.
D)new industries occupy the old brick factories of the old industries.

Question 29

The global production line for clothing

A)involves three countries from more to less developed.
B)adds buttons and zippers from the third world.
C)involves final manufacturing in New York City.
D)all of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 30

The global economies today are

A)shifting toward Asia.
B)still dominantly centered in the west.
C)upcoming in Brazil.
D)all of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 31

The definition of luxury is

A)something needed to survive.
B)elemental food condiments like table salt or pepper.
C)something desired in a culture which is not a necessity.
D)having an automobile.

Question 32

While predominantly poor with rural agriculturalists, India

A)has manufacturing but few high tech industries.
B)has many high tech industries despite areas of poverty.
C)has recently developed to just about the level of the U.S.in manufacturing prowess.
D)has superior abilities particularly in the development of steel for skyscrapers.

Question 33

Just about the only country without a consumption oriented tourism industry is

A)Russia.
B)North Korea.
C)Indonesia.
D)South Africa.

Question 34

The tourism industry caters to

A)only the wealthiest of clients.
B)the consumption of place through travel.
C)mainly people in the United States.
D)none of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 35

Regarding timing of federal development projects

A)there were many more nationwide in the mid-1900s.
B)they have never been large compared to state projects.
C)urban renewal projects established by cities are the largest in space occupied.
D)they are only now becoming popular because of the current president's spending policies.

Question 36

Water projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority

A)have long since been shut down.
B)are new government projects coming on line.
C)was a public/government funded project of a type no longer very popular.
D)were not successful.

Question 37

On the global scale high technology industries are focused mainly

A)in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.
B)in Argentina, South Africa, and Australia.
C)in central Africa in the developed parts of the rainforest.
D)in Mexico, Israel, and Indonesia.

Question 38

Today, Las Vegas is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world.In 1930

A)it was just as popular.
B)it had not even started its rise to consumer stardom.
C)it only had four or five big casinos.
D)all of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 39

The example of Nike shoes shows

A)whole advertising worlds developed in order to enhance consumption.
B)a production system without heed to demand.
C)supply driven without the need of advertising.
D)none of the above. Scrambling: Locked

Question 40

The top three transnational companies in the world

A)have economies bigger than Denmark, Ireland or Finland.
B)generally only produce one single product.
C)mainly have their activities in one city within one country.
D)are reluctant to produce goods outside of the developed world.