Group Trivia Review: Unit 6

1. Team Trivia: Review: Unit 6 Please sit in a group of 4. CHOOSE WISELY! Disruptions will END the review (which means NO ONE gets extra points!)

2. Trivia Guidelines • Create a TEAM NAME & write it on EVERY answer slip • 5 rounds + 2 bonus rounds • Wager 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 per each round; you may only use each point value ONCE per round • You have ONE minute to turn in your answer for each question! • ABSOLUTELY NO ELECTRONICS OUT AT ANY TIME!

3. Rewards (on test) • 1st place = 4 points • 2nd place = 3 points • 3rd place = 2 points • 4th place = 1 points • 5th place = 0 point

4. Round 1: Vocab/Terms

5. Round 1: Question 1 • QUESTION: The __ is the measure of all goods & services produced by a country in year, including abroad • ANSWER: GNP

6. Round 1: Question 2 • QUESTION: Mexico has established export processing zones with special tax, trade and regulatory arrangements for foreign firms, particularly U.S. based companies • ANSWER: Maquiladoras

7. Round 1: Question 3 • QUESTION: goods have to be transferred from one carrier to another • ANSWER: Break of Bulk Point

8. Round 1: Question 4 • QUESTION: The clustering of financial firms on Wall Street is an example of • ANSWER: agglomeration

9. Round 1: Question 5 • QUESTION: the decrease in employment in manufacturing as a share of total employment • ANSWER: Deindustrialization

10. Round 2: Models/Theories: Industry

11. Round 2: Question 1 • QUESTION: If several industries cluster in one city, they can provide support by sharing talents, services, and facilities. This statement describes Alfred Weber’s factor of • ANSWER: Agglomeration

12. Round 2: Question 2 • QUESTION: The most important factor in Weber’s Least Cost Theory is • ANSWER: transportation cost

13. Round 2: Question 3 • QUESTION: Part of Ullman’s conceptual frame includes ___, which refers to something that would reduce the attractiveness of more distant locations • ANSWER: Intervening Opportunity

14. Round 2: Question 4 • QUESTION: Hotelling’s model promoted ____, which states that the location of industries can’t be understood without reference to the location of other, similar industries • ANSWER: Locational interdependence

15. Round 2: Question 5 • QUESTION: These are dominant in terms of their global-political economy; centers of control of the world economy, not the largest in terms of population, etc… • ANSWER: World cities

16. Round 3: Development

17. Round 3: Question 1 • QUESTION: Compared to more developed countries, less developed countries have a higher percentage of workers in which sector of the economy? • ANSWER: Primary

18. Round 3: Question 2 • QUESTION: the report in 1980 that created a map showing the relative wealth of the countries north of the line compared to the countries south of the line • ANSWER: Brandt Report

19. Round 3: Question 3 • QUESTION: Name ONE demographic characteristic of a less developed country (LDC) as compared to a more developed country (MDC): • ANSWER: • High CBR • High dependency rates • Less elderly people • Higher infant mortality rates

20. Round 3: Question 4 • QUESTION: Applying the Core-Periphery model, what would best describe the classification of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore? • ANSWER: Semi-periphery

21. Round 3: Question 5 • QUESTION: Which stage of the DTM is most associated with the full industrialization of a country’s economy? • ANSWER: Stage III

22. BONUS ROUND • QUESTION: List the Four ‘Asian Tigers’: (2 pts each) • ANSWER: • Hong Kong • South Korea • Singapore • Taiwan

23. Round 4: Industry

24. Round 4: Question 1 • QUESTION: The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries BEGAN in which country? • ANSWER: England

25. Round 4: Question 2 • QUESTION: A good example of a bulk-gaining industry: • ANSWER: soda-bottling

26. Round 4: Question 3 • QUESTION: The sector of an economy that transforms raw materials into usable products is considered • ANSWER: Secondary

27. Round 4: Question 4 • QUESTION: The largest single industrial area of Western Europe is centered on: • ANSWER: the Ruhr Valley

28. Round 4: Question 5 • QUESTION: Which form of transportation would most likely be used to haul fruit from Central America to markets in the U.S • ANSWER: plane

29. Round 5: Models/Theories: Development

30. Round 5: Question 1 • QUESTION: This development strategy encourages countries to spread its investments equally across all sectors of its economy and regions, encourages high tariffs and measures to protect new emerging industries • ANSWER: Self-sufficiency

31. Round 5: Question 2 • QUESTION: dominance of service sector, more use and production of goods, and increased acquisition of consumer goods all describe which stage of Rostow’s Theory of Industrial Development? (need name, not just number!) • ANSWER: Stage 5: Age of Mass(High) Consumption

32. Round 5: Question 3 • QUESTION: the relationship of power and the transfer of resources from less developed to more developed areas is explained by this model • ANSWER: Core-Periphery Model

33. Round 5: Question 4 • QUESTION: Rostow’s model, developed in the early 1960s, was based upon the experience of • ANSWER: Western Europe/U.S.

34. Round 5: Question 5 • QUESTION: Making sure that a higher percentage of the profit in international trade goes to the producers in less developed countries is the goal of this economic movement • ANSWER: Fair Trade

35. FINAL BONUS • Wager 0 – 15 points • QUESTION: List TWO economic indicators of development, TWO social factors of development, and TWO demographic indicators of development (total of 6 indicators – ALL must be correct) • ANSWER: • Possible economic: GDP, GNP, Types of Jobs, Consumer goods (i.e. cars, tvs, phones) • Social: education, literacy, ratio of people to doctors • Demographic: Natural rate of increase, CBR, infant mortality rate, life expectancy