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Modern Business Geography 
QUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS 
A. Making a diagram of a manufacturing industry. 
1. Visit a local manufacturing plant and take notes from which you can pre- 
pare a large diagram similar to the one for the tanning industry, shown on 
page 245. Read about the industry in books, magazines, and papers, and 
ask questions of your parents and friends. Illustrate your diagram by 
pictures, maps, drawings, and specimens wherever it is possible to do so. 
Prepare a statement showing how far each of the eight conditions listed at 
the beginning of this chapter is important in determining the location of 
your factory or workshop. 
B. Other centers of your chosen manufacturing industry. 
1. From this book or from other books find out what other localities are 
especially good for the manufacturing industry that you have studied in 
Exercise A. What are the special advantages of these locations? Does 
some other region seem to be a better location for the industry than your 
own region? Why, or why not? 
On an outline map show how much of the world is called upon to contrib- 
ute to this industry, and on another show how much of the world depends 
upon its finished product. 
C. A study of local industries in general. 
1. Make a list of the chief local manufacturing industries. The local Cham- 
ber of Commerce probably has a full list. Let each pupil report on the 
industry for which he has made a diagram, and let the class then decide 
which industries are best suited to your locality. 
Make a simple sketch map of your town or city. On it locate as many 
industrial plants as you can. Explain why they are located where they 
are in the town. Are the newer industries in the suburbs or the center? 
Why ? 
What is a ‘‘ zoning ordinance ’’? If your local government has made one, 
indicate the zones on your sketch map. 
Write an answer to a manufacturer who has written to the Chamber of 
Commerce to ask whether your community is a good place in which to locate 
a factory. Choose for yourself the industry which he wishes to establish. 
D. The relative rank of different countries in manufacturing. 
1. From Figure 162 estimate the relative importance of the six manufacturing 
areas, and arrange the regions in their probable order of importance. 
Take into consideration the following points: (a) area where manufactur- 
ing is important; (b) density of population of the manufacturing area; 
(c) percentage of population engaged in manufacturing ; (d) distance from 
large markets. 
2. Give reasons for the leadership of the two regions that stand first. 
3. Pick out ten countries that show little sign of becoming leaders in industry. 
and give reasons for your choice. 
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