1.
Where did industry originate?
2.
What did the Industrial Revolution transform? Where and when did it start? What was its root?
3.
What are the industrial regions in Western Europe? What do they produce?
4.
How did industry diffuse to Europe and the US?
5.
What are the industrial regions in North America? What do they produce?
6.
What is industry in Eastern Europe like?
7.
What is industry in Eat Asia like?
8.
Why do industries have different distributions?
9.
Explain situation. List the situation factors. (Hint---headings of the topics)
10.
Why are site and situation factors used to locate industry?
11.
What is bulk-reducing? Why is copper a bulk-reducing industry?
12.
What is the steel industry like?
13.
What is bulk-gaining? Why are soft drink companies bulk-gaining industries?
14.
How did Saturn Company select a site for its new plant?
15.
What is a single market manufacturer and how do they site their plants?
16.
What makes perishable products different?
17.
How do companies select the type of transportation they use?
18.
Explain a break of bulk point.
19.
Explain site. List all the site factors. (Hint---headings of the topics)
20.
Why is land important to site? Why is labor important to site?
21.
What is the textile industry like?
22.
What is capital? Why is it important?
23.
What is right to work all about?
24.
Explain the intraregional shifts in manufacturing in MDCs. Give examples.
25.
Explain the interregional shifts in manufacturing in MDCs. Give examples.
26.
Analyze the emergence of new industrial regions. Where are they and what are they manufacturing?
27.
What is the attraction of new industrial regions? Explain.
28.
Explain the new international division of labor.
29.
What is outsourcing? What impact has it had on manufacturing?
30.
What factors influence industries to remain in traditional regions? Why?
31.
Explain just-in-time delivery.