Practice Quiz Chapter 10

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. Economic activities concerned directly with the collection and utilization of natural resources are called _________.

a) primary activities correct incorrect

b) secondary activities correct incorrect

c) tertiary activities correct incorrect

d) quaternary activities correct incorrect

e) quinary activities correct incorrect

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. Secondary activities are economic activities that _________.

a) process, transform, fabricate, or assemble raw materials correct incorrect

b) collect and utilize natural resources and raw materials correct incorrect

c) involve the sale, distribution, and exchange of goods correct incorrect

d) handle and process knowledge and information correct incorrect

e) rely on the contributions of “gold collar” service providers correct incorrect

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. _________ refers to the situation where a company hands work that was previously completed in-house to other firms.

a) Offshoring correct incorrect

b) Industrialization correct incorrect

c) Deindustrialization correct incorrect

d) Outsourcing correct incorrect

e) Reindustrialization correct incorrect

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. The situation in which a single producer sells the entire output of an industrial good or service in a given area is called _________.

a) locational interdependence correct incorrect

b) a spatial monopoly correct incorrect

c) an isotim correct incorrect

d) an isodapane correct incorrect

e) a feudal state correct incorrect

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. The primary fuel used at the start of the Industrial Revolution is _________.

a) conventional oil correct incorrect

b) oil correct incorrect

c) coal correct incorrect

d) charcoal correct incorrect

e) solar correct incorrect

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. _________ has the highest natural gas production.

a) China correct incorrect

b) Indonesia correct incorrect

c) Canada correct incorrect

d) The United States correct incorrect

e) Qatar correct incorrect

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. _________ is one of the five principal centres of industrial activity in the world but the only centre of the five from the less developed world, though it is rapidly transitioning to more developed.

a) Japan correct incorrect

b) China correct incorrect

c) Ukraine correct incorrect

d) The Philippines correct incorrect

e) Malaysia correct incorrect

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. _________ are NOT one of the technological factors that represent a transition to flexible accumulation.

a) Circulation technologies correct incorrect

b) Transaction technologies correct incorrect

c) Collective technologies correct incorrect

d) Production technologies correct incorrect

e) All of the above are technological factors that represent a transition to flexible accumulation. correct incorrect

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. The first transnational corporations arose during _________.

a) Fordism correct incorrect

b) post-Fordism correct incorrect

c) globalization correct incorrect

d) industrial restructuring correct incorrect

e) the Industrial Revolution correct incorrect

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. _________ refers to loss of manufacturing activity and related employment in a traditional manufacturing region in the more developed world.

a) Outsourcing correct incorrect

b) Offshore production correct incorrect

c) Information technologies correct incorrect

d) Reindustrialization correct incorrect

e) Deindustrialization correct incorrect