WORLD GEOGRAPHY 3200/3202 Name:______________________________

UNIT 5: Secondary and Tertiary Activities

Read Pages 216 to 233 and answer the following questions:

1. Classify the following industries as labour or capital intensive, and as light or heavy industry

INDUSTRY LABOUR

INTENSIVE

CAPITAL

INTENSIVE

LIGHT

INDUSTRY

HEAVY

INDUSTRY

Building a water

turbine

Assembling a

television

Manufacturing

clothes

Shipbuilding

Read the case study “Wrigley Gum” p. 219-220 and list the components of this

manufacturing operation.

2. List at least five inputs for Wrigley’s gum.

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3. List the steps of the manufacturing process at Wrigley’s.

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4. What is the output from Wrigley’s

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5. Is the chewing gum manufacturing labour intensive or capital intensive? Explain.

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6. What factors in its operation would be most difficult for Wrigley’s to control?

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7. Does the manufacture of chewing gum involve conditioning, synthetic processing or analytic

processing? Explain why.

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8. What does the term value-added mean?

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9. What significance does high value added manufacturing have for a country’s economy?

Explain using trees as an example.

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10. The Newfoundland government has legislated that all raw materials harvested in

Newfoundland must be processed in some way before it leaves the province. Is this a good idea?

Explain.

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Read the Case Study “Making Steel Worldwide” on page 221.

11. Classify steel production as heavy or light industry. Explain your answer.

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12. What are the cost advantages of removing impurities from iron ore at the mine site rather

than shipping unprocessed ore to a steel mill?

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13. Think of two good reasons to justify the practice of recycled scrap metal in steel production?

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14. Why would steel have a greater value at the end of stage 5 then at the end of stage 3?

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