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Geography final
final exam review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the U.S. large cities have moved from the Northeast to where? | south west |
| This continent will experience the greatest increase in uurbanization by 2050 | Africa |
| This city structure has wedges radiating out from the central business district | Sector model |
| This US city structure that has industry located around the central business district and upper class homes on the outskirts of the cit | concentric ring model |
| This US city structure that has small business districts scattered throughout the city. | multi-nuclei model |
| Historically, cities developed | along rivers for water and transportation |
| . In European cities, the upper class tends to cluster | the city center for access to amenities |
| The United Nations measure development of a country. | HDI |
| One strong indicator of low development is | more primary sector workers than secondary or tertiary sector workers |
| A primary sector of jobs | Farming |
| A secondary sector of jobs | Factory work |
| Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the distribution of industry was | Dispersed |
| Situation costs are critical to a firm wishing to | minimize transport costs |
| The mode of industrial transportation that is cheapest, but slowest, | shipping |
| The mode of industrial transportation that offers the most flexibility is | vehicle (trucks) |
| The mode of industrial transportation that is quickest is | airplane |
| The consumer good whose widespread availability reflects a high level of development is | television |
| A trading bloc that involves Canada, the US and Mexico | NAFTA |
| The organization works to eliminate trade barriers throughout the world | WTO |
| A model that an LDC could follow to increase development | self-sufficiency |
| . An LDC could borrow money for development from | The World Bank |
| The Industrial Revolution began in | Great Britain |
| The cottage industry system involved manufacturing | in the home |
| A copper concentration mill tends to locate near a copper mine because it is a | bulk-reducing industry |
| Transnational corporations have transferred some work to less developed countries because of access to | labor |
| The most common contribution that developing countries have to offer industry | low-wage workers |
| Western Europe’s most important industrial area | Rhine-Ruhr Valley |
| . The process whereby an increasing percentage of people live in an urban area | urbanization |
| The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered | Central Business District |
| The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service | range |
| A city at least twice as large as the next smaller city | primate city |
| The minimum number of people needed to support a service | threshold |
| The hierarchical organization of settlements by size is known as | rank-size rule |
| This fossil fuel has the largest worldwide reserves | coal |
| This crop that is most widely grown throughout the world | wheat |
| The commodity that is MN's highest grossing product | corn |
| In a subsistence form of agriculture, what percent of their population, on average, are farmers | 55% |
| What seed has an unknown hearth | rice |
| The US exports what fraction of the world corn | ½ |
| Some regions produce more cheese than milk because | they are outside the milk shed |
| The distinctive type of agriculture practiced in the US Midwest, from Ohio to Iowa | mixed crop & livestock |
| The most abundant metallic mineral | iron |
| This sea is drying up | Aral Sea |
| The oldest documented city | Ur |
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