Geography 1001: Study Guide Quiz 5
J. Naumann
1. The concept of Comparative Advantage provides an understanding of what?
2. What are examples of primary activities?
3. What are examples of secondary activities?
4. Concerning countries or regions and the distribution of economically beneficial
mineral deposits, how evenly are they distributed by nature?
5. What are the three dominating characteristics of commercial [market] economic
systems?
6. What is the most expensive form of freight movement for long distances?
7. Quaternary economic activities involve what kind of businesses and processes?
8. How did the advances from the green revolution affect women and their role in
agricultural development programs?
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9. Women engaged in farm work are responsible for at least what percent of the world’s
food?
10. How do the economic rewards of women engaged in farm work compare with the
rewards from agriculture for men farmers?
11. Why have many foreign-owned factories have relocated in Thailand, Malaysia, and
Indonesia?
12. In every country the degree to which primary activities, secondary activities, tertiary
activities and quaternary activities are connected and integrated depends most
on what?
13. What are characteristics of traditional intensive subsistence agriculture?
14. Which factor or condition is most important in determining whether or not low-value
minerals or low-grade ores will be mined?
15. Regarding the typical corporate office building as a workplace; the internet, e-mail,
the fax, cell phones, laptop internet-ready computers, etc.; has been affected in
what way
16. What is the relationship between gross national product and energy consumption
among countries?
17. In free market economies, the location of industry is primarily determined by what
consideration?
18. All the basic economic questions are answered by the free choices of buyers and
sellers in which of the three basic economic models?
19. All the basic economic questions are answered by the government in which of the
three economic models?
20. What economic term is given to an economy where some of the basic economic
questions are answered by the free choices of buyers and sellers and others by
the government?
21. All the basic economic questions are answered by customs in which of the three
basic economic models?
22. Private ownership of land and capital and competition among producers are
hallmarks of which of the there basic economic models?