APHG Industry Chapter 11 Key Issue 1
Where is Industry Distributed?
1. What happened to Huffy bicycles, Ohio Art, Maytag? Why is this critical to understand? What is
the % of manufacturing job lost in 2000-2006 in the USA? What sector of the economy is most
affected? Why did the above mentioned companies make changes? Who is ultimately
responsible for this change?
2. Maquiladora:
a. What is it?
b. Where does the word come from? Meaning?
c. What is the USA’s involvement?
d. How market dominant is this process?
e. Is this a positive situation? To whom?
3. How does PLACE determine suitability for industry? What is critical, according to geographers?
What are the two most critical components?
4. How do transnationals operate? What do governmental officials recognize?
5. How did Industry diffused? What type of diffusion?
6. Industrial Revolution?
a. What was it?
b. What is the Cottage Industry? How did the Industrial Revolution change this system?
c. How does the Industrial Revolution effect prior concepts we have learned in this
course?
d. How did it impact the different industries? Make sure to incorporate James Watt’s
invention into your answer.
7. Where is ¾ of the world’s industrial production concentrated? How does this differ from
agriculture? (Be Detailed, Specific)
8. Where on our planet is manufacturing value added in excess of $1 trillion? Less than $1 billion?
Comments?
9. Western Europe: What are the 4 areas & why did they become important?
10. The UK: What is the story here? How did it happen? Why here?
a. What was the Industrial Revolution?
b. What did it include?
c. Why did the UK lose industrial leadership? How are they getting it back?
d. Why did Japan/ Germany emerge?
11. Rhine-Ruhr Valley:
a. Where is it?
b. Why did it take so long to develop (After the UK)?
c. What is manufactured there? Why? (Be detailed, Specific)
12. Mid-Rhine:
a. How different than Rhine-Ruhr?
b. What specialties are produced there? Why? (Details…..)
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13. Northern Italy (PO Valley):
a. What makes this area so productive?
b. What is made there?
14. Eastern Europe: Look at each area, and detail what is produced there & why:
a. Central Industrial District (Catalonia, Spain)
b. Moscow
c. St. Petersburg
d. Volga
e. Urals (Problems Here, Why?)
f. Kuznetsk
g. Eastern Ukraine
h. Silesia
15. North America:
a. Why was did Industry arrive later in the U.S. than in Europe?
b. First Industry? Why? Where concentrated (manufactured)? Why there?
c. For each of the following areas in the USA, detail what products dominate, & why
located there:
i. New England
ii. Mid-Atlantic
iii. Mohawk Valley
iv. Pittsburg – Lake Erie
v. Western Great Lakes
vi. Southern California
16. Canada: Where is industry located? What are the assets? What is produced?
17. East Asia: Main asset? How did they become an industrialized power in the 1950 – 60’s? What
happened in the 1970 – 80’s? What about China?
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