Ch 11 and 12

19) If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants, how many people live in the fifth largest city?

200,000

7) The Industrial Revolution began in

A) Great Britain.

34) The attraction of the outsourced "offshore banking" industry can best be explained by

A) bank secrecy laws and the avoidance of paying taxes in other countries.

44) A firm that sells its products primarily to consumers outside its settlement is a

A) basic industry.

10) The most important transportation improvement in the eighteenth century was the

A) canal.

26) Global cities are identified and ranked by a combination of

A) economic, political, cultural, and infrastructure factors.

22) The potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance in the

A) gravity model.

33) The attraction of the outsourced "call center" industry to locate in India can best be explained by

A) low wages and the wide use of English.

45) One of the most important basic activities in the southern Great Lakes region is

A) manufacturing of durable goods.

52) The most significant impact that Great Britain's enclosure movement made on the rural landscape was to

A) produce more of a dispersed rural settlement pattern.

28) A ________ is an example of a settlement that specializes in public services.

A) state capital

46) Richard Florida's research identified a relationship between the distribution of

A) talent and diversity.

37) Two major benefits many LDCs offer in terms of global financial services are

A) tax breaks and privacy.

40) What technical development has allowed back-office functions to relocate to LDCs?

A) telecommunications

35) World cities are defined by

A) the number and type of business services found there.

23) Periodic markets are likely to feature

A) vendors who move from town to town.

53) Clustered rural settlements were most common in which region of colonial America?

B) New England

27) The geometric pattern which geographers use to represent market areas is

B) a hexagon.

18) A primate city is

B) at least twice as large as the next smaller city.

1) The cottage industry system involved manufacturing

B) in the home.

47) Attracting a new basic industry is important to a community, primarily because it

B) stimulates new nonbasic industries.

21) The gravity model predicts that the optimal location of a service is

C) directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.

9) Prior to the Industrial Revolution, industry was geographically

C) dispersed.

24) Central Place Theory predicts larger settlements are

C) less numerous and farther apart.

16) If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution?

C) primate city

8) The Industrial Revolution began in

C) the late 1700s.

2) In the 1700s, water pollution increased significantly when the chemical industry began to contribute to the textile industry through methods of

D) bleaching and dyeing.

39) Back-office functions are also called

D) business-process outsourcing.

38) What factors determine where back office services will locate in LDCs?

D) low wage rates and workers who can speak English

25) In a linear community, we can deduce that the best location for a service is the

D) median.

51) The French long-lot system was developed primarily because of

D) need for access to a river.

17) The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the

D) rank-size rule.

43) Which of the following is most likely a basic economic activity?

D) steel mill

6) Given the earlier history of the chemical industry, we can hypothesize that its 20th-century contributions to the textile industry began to include

D) the creation of synthetic fabrics.

12) Outside of the three world regions where industry is concentrated, the next two largest industrial producing countries are

E) Brazil and India.

11) Approximately three-fourths of the world's industrial production is concentrated in three regions, including which of the following?

E) eastern North America and northwestern Europe

13) The Po River basin in Italy

E) has inexpensive hydroelectricity from the Alps.

36) LDCs specialize in what two types of global business services?

E) offshore financial and back office

20) The minimum number of people needed to support a service is called the

threshold