Pre-Industrial World
What is the cottage industry?
what is when handmade goods are made in the home?
How did the industrial revolution affect agriculture?
It allowed for farming to be much more efficient with the introduction of machines.
Smog is an example of what type of pollution.
What is air pollution?
location, unique features, and physical features. what makes it different from the surrounding area.
What is site?
just-in-time delivery.
When parts are delivered within minutes or hours or when they will be used.
Explain trade pre-industrialization.
Not often, mostly specialized products, and did not travel far for trade.
Describe the effect the industrial revolution had on transportation and trade.
The creation of steam-powered boats and trains allowed for much quicker transportation and the trade of larger and heavier objects.
what is the greenhouse effect?
what is when gases trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere?
how things are interconnected; the surrounding area. How to places work with each other.
What is situation?
what is break-of-bulk?
When goods change the way they are moved/transported.
A political, economic, and social system in medieval and early modern Europe.
What is manorialism?
When and where did the industrial revolution start?
The 1760s in Britain.
what causes more UV to enter the atmosphere?
What is ozone layer depletion?
When products weigh less than the raw materials. Usually near resource to reduce transport costs.
what is bulk-reducing industry?
US-owned companies with factories in Mexico;
what are maquiladoras?
A social system that is based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a lord and a vassal.
What is feudalism?
Describe the diffusion of industrialization.
Slowly began to diffuse from Britain into mainland Europe, North America, and eventually Asia.
Pollution that comes from one identifiable source.
what is point source pollution?
When products weigh more than the raw materials. Usually near customers to reduce transport costs.
what is bulk-gaining industry?
Companies move low-skill jobs to areas with cheaper land and labor.
what is outsourcing?
A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.
What is a vassal?
What were the first fuel sources used in the industrial revolution?
what are coal and wood?
How is acid rain formed?
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the air and mixed with water in clouds and making the water acidic.
When an industry can be located anywhere without consequence.
What is a footloose industry?
workers placed in teams & work together to finish one unit.
What is post-Fordist production