Attracting a New Basic Industry Is Important to a Community

question 109

Multiple Choice

Attracting a new basic industry is important to a community, primarily because it

• A) changes the community's functional classification.
• B) stimulates new nonbasic industries.
• C) disrupts the central place hierarchy.
• D) changes the nation's rank-size distribution of settlements.
• E) replaces obsolete industry.

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