Pop Quizzes

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Pop Quizzes

• Unit 6

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Quiz Basic or Non-Basic?

• Coal miner
• Family dentist in Marietta
• Mega structure engineer
• DJ Pauly D (Jersey Shore)
• Mr. Domenico
• Georgia State Senator
• US Senator from GA
• American Idol Studio
• Cobb County Policeman
• Madonna
• Johnson Ferry Dominos delivery guy
• ESPN Sportscast personality
• Shaun White (pro-snowboarder)
• Textile worker

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Pop Quiz 1

• A site where an item are off -loaded and placed
  onto another mode of transportation is called
  ____.
• The first three countries to industrialize were
  ______,_______, and ______.
• Which mode of transport is the cheapest in a trip
  around the world?
• Where would a bulk reducing factory be located?
• Where would a bulk gaining industry be located?
• What costs are saved by having just in time
  delivery?
• Which of the following is NOT a site factor you
  consider when deciding where to place a factory?
• -Land costs, labor costs, proximity to
  markets, access to capital.

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• 8. Weber's Least Cost Theory focused primarily
  on three variables, but which was the most
  important?
• 9. What is a SEZ?
• 10. List two reasons for the process of
  deindustrialization of the NE.
• 11. When insurance claim processing goes overseas
  to areas with low labor costs it is called?
• 12. What makes a footloose industry footloose ?
• 13. If the multiplier effect is 1 3 and there
  are now 2,000 basic jobs coming to our town, how
  many total jobs will emerge?
• 14. Why might a QT near the interstate be
  considered a basic job?

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Pop Quiz 2

• Which urban model is most closely associated with
  beltways?
• 2. Webers Least Cost theory said three major
  factors determine where a factory is placed. What
  are they?

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• 4. Why do some economists say that China didnt
  take over Hong Kong, Hong Kong invaded China?
• 5. Bulk gaining industries locate near _____.
• 6. Bulk reducing industries locate near ___.
• 7. What do Doi Moi and Perestroika have in
  common?
• 8. Name the four Asian Tigers.
• 9. What do Shenzen and maquiladora have in
  common?
• 10. What led to ghettoization in the USA in the
  1960s?

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• 11. How the modern international division of
  labor different from the old division of labor?
• 12. Which stage in Rostows model of development
  is the industrial revolution?
• 13. T/F World cities are always mega cities.
• 14. What is the difference between basic and
  non-basic jobs?
• 15. If a country conforms to the rank size rule
  and is the smallest megacity in the world, how
  many people live in the second largest city?
• 16. T/F Megalopoli occur when lots of edge cities
  grow into one megacity.

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• 17. Approximately what percent of the USA and the
  world live in urban areas?
• 18. What type of land use is found directly
  outside of the CBD in the concentric zone model?
• 19. Why do Muslim homes often have tall walls and
  no windows on the first floor?
• 20. What is found in the middle of the city in
  the sector model?
• 21. Chrystallers model is called?
• 22. What is the smallest urban area in the urban
  hierarchy?
• 23. List three types of zoning laws in the USA.

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• 24. What were the main attractions for Kia to
  locate in Westpoint Ga.
• 25. What is the problem with just-in-time
  delivery?
• Which model involves an interaction of edge
  cities?
• A disamenity sector is a synonym for ____.
• Which model suggests that urbanization is
  influence by the growth of infrastructure.