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| 1 | Five
definitions i - v are given below. Match each one of these definitions
to one of the words or phrases a - l listed underneath. |
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An
industry which needs to be close to a large supply of cheap, semi-skilled
labour. |
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| (ii) | An
industry which is producing equipment and/or software for information
and communications technology. |
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| (iii) | The
costs involved in getting a finished product from the factory to the
people who will purchase it. |
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| (iv) | Work
in which a person does not produce any goods, but provides a service
for customers. |
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| (v) | Something
which has been through a manufacturing process, but which is not ready
for sale to the public until it has been assembled with other things
to produce a finished product. |
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| a b c d e f g h i j k l |
primary employment secondary employment tertiary employment secondary industry tertiary industry quaternary industry raw material component market oriented labour oriented distribution costs collection costs |
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| 2 | Details
of the employment structures of three countries are given below.
Which of these three countries is: |
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| (i) | most
developed? |
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| (ii) | least
developed? |
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| (iii) |
Explain why you gave the answers to (i) and (ii) above. |
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| 3 | (i) | Name
an example of an industry which uses large numbers of components for
production on an assembly line. |
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| (ii) | Name
a place in the UK which has a factory assembling the product that
you named in (i) above. |
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| (iii) | Explain
why the place you named in (ii) was chosen as a location for that
factory. |
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| 4 | (i) | What
is a trans-national corporation (TNC)? |
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| (ii) | Many
TNCs locate factories in less economically developed countries (LEDCs). Choose a TNC which has located in an LEDC, and give the name of both the TNC and the LEDC. |
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(iii) |
Explain the benefits for the TNC of locating in that LEDC. |
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(iv) |
TNCs can bring both benefits and problems to the LEDCs in which they locate factories. With reference to one or more case studies, explain how LEDCs get both benefits and problems when TNCs choose them to locate their factories. |
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