Key issue questions
Chapter 11 - Industry
Directions: Answer the following questions and use this as a study guide for the Unit test. Make sure you
study notes as well! As you read each key issue, answer the questions. It is VERY likely to see these
questions on reading and unit quizzes as well.
Key Issue #1
1. Explain the maquiladoras in Mexico.
2. Why have 4 distinct industrial districts emerged in Europe? List them.
3. What was Industrial Revolution? Where was it? What was the outcome?
4. List the 7 industrial districts in Eastern Europe?
5. Where has manufacturing been concentrated in the US?
6. List the 5 regions and EXPLAIN the types of industry in each.
7. How has this manufacturing belt achieved dominance through history?
8. How has East Asia gotten involved in industry?
9. What do many East Asian countries base build industry on?
10.List 3 facts about China and its role in worldwide industry.
Key Issue #2
11.What does industry seek to maximize?
12.Define site and situation factors.
13.Explain the importance of proximity to inputs versus proximity to markets.
14.What is a bulk-reducing industry? Explain copper as an example.
15.How did the steel industry begin?
16.Originally, where was the start of the steel industry? Why?
17.How and why has the steel industry location shifted in the US?
18.Define bulk-gaining industries. List several examples.
19.How are inputs and products transported?
19.Based on question #19, what types of transportation are used based on distance?
21. What is break of bulk point?
22. What is the 3 most important site factor? Explain each one of the factors.
Key Issue #3
23. How has the distribution of industry changed intraregionally and interregionally?
24. Explain the shifts from the northeast? Why has this happened?
25. What role does the right to work laws play in industrial shifts?
26. Explain the industrial shifts in Western Europe.
27. List the 3 new industrial world regions.
Key Issue #4
28. Why are new industrial regions attractive?
29. What is outsourcing?
30. What is the selective job transferring called?
31. Compare and contrast the Fordist and post-Fordist theories regarding production and
workers.
32. What is just in time deliveries? Why would this be beneficial to companies? What are
some of the negatives of this type of business process?
33. Read the case study on p. 393, give a brief summary of the positives and
negatives of free trade in North America? What are some of the concerns for the future?