AP Human Geography

Chapter 10 Study Guide (Part 4)

1. What is provided by tertiary industries?

2. Give two examples of a tertiary industry not listed in the textbook.

(Use your brain!)

3. What sector of the U.S. economy has grown the most in recent years?

4. According to the Figure 10.13 on pg. 316, what countries have seen a
decline in manufacturing between 1995 and 2005?

5. In what countries has manufacturing increased between 1995-2005?

6. What countries have seen the biggest jump in manufacturing between

1995-2005?

7. Even though manufacturing has been declining in developed/core

countries, what have the not lost?

8. How much of manufacturing value added is still done in

developed/core countries?

9. If global dominance in manufacturing hasnt shifted, what has?

10.

Explain deindustrialization.

11.

What three explanations help account for deindustrialization?

12.
What is one of the main reasons that productivity is increasing in
manufacturing faster than in the service sector (hint: robots v.
humans)?

13.
What do the authors mean by changes in resource
endowments?

14.
How do changes in resource endowments lead to a loss of
industry in certain parts of the world?

15.
How has economic globalization impacted the geography of
labor?

16.
Historically, what roadmap have most economies followed as far
as their main economic functions?

17.
According to Figure 10.14 at the top of pg. 317, why did the steel
mill in Bethlehem, PA close?

18.

What has been opened in its place?

19.

What economic transition is this an example of?

20.
When quaternary and quinary services are taken into account,
how do we have to change how we define tertiary services?

21.

What percentage of jobs in the U.S. are in the service sector?

22.
During the recession that began in 2009, what services sector
jobs increased?

23.
What percentage of the U.S. workforce today is employed in
some type of manufacturing?

24.
What percentage of the U.S. workforce was employed in some
type of manufacturing in 1940?

25.
When the worlds countries are ranked by the percentage of their
GDP that is derived from services, what country comes out on top?

26.

What percentage of the U.S. GDP do services account for?

27.
How much of the GDP of developed countries comes from
services?

28.
How much of the GDP of developing countries comes from
services?

29.
What has the percentage of people employed in service
industries done since 1970?

30.
What has contributed to the worldwide diffusion of service
industries?

31.
What segment of society has been majorly impacted by the
global diffusion of service industries?

32.
What percentage of service sector jobs do women account for in
several countries?
33.

What is the goal of gender mainstreaming?

34.

What international organization has been promoting it globally?

35.
List the five characteristics of a postindustrial society (in
brief).

36.

What drives innovation in a knowledge based economy?

37.

What system prevails in postindustrial societies?

38.
What is one of the best indicators of a knowledge based
economy?

39.
How much more do high income countries spend on research and
development than low income countries?

40.

Describe a technopole.

41.

What is the recognized prototype of a technopole?

42.

When did it begin to develop?

43.

What are technopoles a good example of?

44.
What three reasons does sociologist Manuel Castells give for the
development of technopoles?

45.
In what ways can technopoles help areas where an economy is
slowing?

46.

How do technopoles typically start?

47.
What cities has the Research Triangle in North Carolina
developed around?

48.
What technopoles have developed in England, Sweden, and
France?

49.
What typically explains the existence of technopoles in
peripheral (2nd and 3rd world) countries?

50.
What technopoles have developed in India as a result of the
planned initiative of the state of Karnatka, India?

51.
What other technopoles have developed in peripheral (2nd and
rd
3 world) countries?