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Introduction to Geography, 8/e
Arthur Getis, San Diego State University
Judith Getis
Jerome D. Fellmann, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Economic Geography

Essay Quiz

Complete the following by supplying the required answers.



1

If primary commodities are an important portion of total international trade, then why has the exportation of these commodities from less developed countries been considered “as unequal and potentially damaging”?
2

a) What are the two major impacts which high technology industries have had on the patterns of economic geography?
b) List three locational tendencies of these industries.
3

List two important positive aspects and two negative aspects of the Green Revolution.