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20. INDUSTRY QUESTIONS
This topic entails :-
- Definition of industry and industrialization
- Explaining the factors that influence the location and development of industries
- Describing types of industries
- Accounting for the distribution of industries in Kenya
- Explaining the significance of industrialization to Kenya
- Discussing the problems of industrialization and possible solutions
- Comparing and contrasting aspects of industrialization in selected countries.
- Carrying out field work on an industry in the local environment.
1. Give five effects of liberalization of the oil industry in Kenya.
2. (a) Define the term “industrial inertia.”
(b) State three factors that make industrialists prefer to locate their plants near already
established industries.
(c) Explain three benefits that would result from rural electrification in Kenya
3. (a) Define the term industrial inertia
(b) State three negative effects of industrialization
4. (a) Differentiate between a factory and industry
(b) Name any three types of tertiary industry
20. INDUSTRY ANSWERS
1. – Created variation in prices of petroleum products
- Led to mushrooming of many petroleum products dealers
- Encouraged importation of refined petroleum products
- Caused frequent price adjustments by oil dealers
- Created widespread / availability of petroleum products
2. a) Industrial inertia is the tendency of an industry to maintain its location and activities
after factors of its initial location have ceased
b) – Presence of an already established transport system
– Availability of skilled labour
– Utilization of out-puts of other plants as raw material
c) – it would encourage setting up of industries in the areas thus stimulation
decentralization of induction
– it would reduce the cutting down of trees and electricity would be available for
domestic use.
– It would attract/improve social amenities in rural area reducing the need for people to
move to urban areas
– Most people would invest in the rural area which would led to higher standards of living
– It would encourage development of horticultural farming to have ideal storage f
perishable products
3. a) -it is the inability of an industry to move from an area through original location factors
here changed/exhausted/are no longer existing
b) – it has resulted in pollution leading to environmental deterioration
– it has led to rural-urban migration depriving the source area able bodies people
– it has led to un even economic development
– other economic activities e.g. agriculture production have been underrated in favour of
industrial activities
– due to technological advancement some people have been rendered jobless
4. a) An industry is an enterprise or a commercial profit making undertaking while a factory
refers to the structures or buildings which may house an industry
4. b) – Transport
– Communication
– Banking
– Insurance
– Trade
