AP Human Geography
Unit VI Review: Development and Industry
1) GDP per capita is the only economic indicator to reliably determine level of development for a
country.
2) The share of GDP accounted for by the secondary sector is larger in LDCs than MDCs.
3) Gross domestic product (GDP) measures the distribution of wealth in a country.
4) Less developed countries can be distinguished from more developed countries according to
social and demographic characteristics, as well as economic ones.
5) Raising the GDP of a country means an automatically higher standard of living.
6) The three large relatively developed regions in the world are North America, Western Europe,
and Eastern Europe.
7) The availability of energy and other resources is increasingly important to increase the level of
development.
8) Developing countries are increasingly choosing to pursue the international trade approach to
development.
9) Industry is uniformly distributed across Earth.
10) Wood became the main energy source during the Industrial Revolution due to overuse and
depletion of coal reserves.
11) The invention of the steam engine in 1769 by James Watt is considered the most important
invention for the development of factories at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
12) About three-fourths of world industrial production is clustered in four regions.
13) The most important industrial area in Western Europe, the Rhine-Ruhr valley, has large
deposits of coal.
14) The optimal location for a factory manufacturing a bulk-gaining product is likely to be one
that minimizes the cost of transporting the product to the market.
15) If the cost of transporting the inputs exceeds the cost of transporting the product, then the
optimal plant location is as close as possible to the customer.
16) U.S. steel mills have always been located to minimize the transport of inputs to the factories.
17) China has the largest labor force employed in manufacturing.
18) Of the four common shipping modes of transportation, air claims the lowest cost per
kilometer across all distances.
19) The site factor most affecting the relocation of industry in the twenty-first century is labor.
20) Factories in more developed countries are now more likely to be suburban or rural than in
urban centers.
Match the type of industry to the location within the United States.
A) southern Lake Michigan and East Coast.
B) California and Texas
C) Northeast
D) interior corridor from Michigan to Alabama
21) "High end" clothing
22) Electronic computing
23) steel mills
24) Automobile assembly
25) What are the two main situation factors that influence the location of a factory?