Weber’s Industrial location Theory

1. _____ can be used by Herman to find the perfect location for his new upholstery
plant.
A. Weber's Model of Industrial Location
B. Church's Facility Location Model
C. Remi On-Location Model
D. Distributed Labor Model
2. Industry in which production of goods and services is based in homes, as
opposed to factories. Dominant industrial model before Industrial Revolution.
Today, produce specialty goods, which are assembled individually or in small
quantities.
A. Agglomeration Economies
B. Cottage Industry
C. Footloose Industry
D. Fordist
3. Which of the following is a bulk-gaining industry?
A. A soda bottling company
B. A paper manufacturing plant
C. A winery
D. All of the answer choices represent bulk-gaining industries
4. In a bulk-gaining industry:
A. companies assemble products whose weight is greater after assembly.
B. companies make weight-gain supplements.
C. production centers are far from their markets.
D. companies make money buying and selling bulky items.
5. Alfred Weber's Least Cost Theory takes into account all of the following EXCEPT:
A. weight of raw materials.
B. consumer demand for the finished product.
C. locating markets close to raw materials.
D. transportation costs.
6. An example of a product made by a bulk-reducing industry is:
A. automobiles.
B. potato chips.
C. homes.
D. milk.
7. Shopping malls are an example of:
A. cumulative causation.
B. urbanization.
C. agglomeration.
D. deglomeration.
8. Deglomeration occurs when a location:
A. is saturated with businesses offering similar goods/services.
B. experiences a rapid loss of manufacturing activity.
 C. experiences a natural disaster.
D. does not have a large enough labor force.
9. Manufacturing or other industry in which cost of transporting both raw materials
and finished product is not important for determining location of the firm.
Common footloose industries include catalog companies, which can locate
anywhere as shipping in the US depends on weight not distance, as well as
expensive and light items such as diamonds or computer chips.
A. Agglomeration Economies
B. Footloose Industry
C. Cottage Industry
D. Fordist
10. According to Weber, the most important factor in locating a factory is
A. transportation cost
B. agglomeration
C. labor
D. Agglomeration Economies
ANSWER KEY:
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. B
10. A

OLIGO, CRISTINE JOY G.

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