Business Geography 352 - Quiz 2
basic activities - correct answers produces goods and services that are sold outside the city
- measured by
... [Show More] employment, sales, income, or value added
- manufacturing or industry jobs
Value Added - correct answers increase in the value of a product in a stage of production process
EX: flour and bakery, flour counted twice once as flour and again as bread
What two events can cause basic activities to change in level? - correct answers 1. changes in external demands for currently exported goods and services (demand shift)
2. new basic activities emerging in city (more suppliers)
What causes new basic activities to emerge? - correct answers 1. local invention/innovation leading to new local export activities
2. industrial plans relocating to the local area from other places leading to additional export activities
forward linkages - correct answers growth of an industry leads to growth in industries that use its output as an input
ex: timber created saw mills or paper mills
backward linkages - correct answers growth of industry leads to growth of industries that supply it
ex: textile industry may encourage more cotton production
Secondary Linkages - correct answers money spend by workers employed in the basic sector circulates within the local urban economy and supports the employment of non-basic workers
ex: basic worker spends $ on groceries, which pays wages of produce manager, who buys fast food, which supports fast food worker, etc.
Non-Basic Activities - correct answers produce goods and services sold with the city/region
- retail activity is considered non basic
What things can change Non-Basic activities? - correct answers 1. responding to changes to export activities; modeled by export base multiplier relationship
2. expanding to become basic activity by exporting some of their goods and services to non local buyers; enhance export base multiplier relationship
3. newly initiated or relocation non-b emerging to produce local g/s for local consumption which previously had been imported from other areas; alter the form of export base multipliers relationship over time
site - correct answers actual physical location of a place (lat. long. or address)
situation - correct answers the surrounding area in relationship to a given place
regional approaches - correct answers still had profound impact on geography disiplines
perceptual regions - correct answers based on person perceptions about a given area
ex: the south, great plains
functional regions - correct answers areas defined based on their common function
ex: urban area, tv market [Show Less]