A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another.
What is a break-of bulk point?
100
A machine created by James Watt that supplied more power than the methods used before the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
100
An industry in which wages and other compensation paid to employees constitute a high percentage of expenses.
What is a labor-intensive industry
100
An example of a bulk-reducing industry.
What is the copper/ steel industry?
100
The first industry to benefit from the steam engine.
What is the iron industry?
200
A fabric made by weaving, using in making clothing.
What is a textile?
200
A hearth of the Industrial Revolution
What is northern England/ southern Scotland?
200
A labor-intensive industry.
What is the textile industry?
200
The three situation factors companies use to determine where they would like to locate their factory.
What is proximity to markets, inputs, and transportation types?
200
The industry that helped diffused the Industrial Revolution.
What is the transportation industry?
300
A decision by a corporation to turn over over much of the responsibility for production to independent suppliers.
What is outsourcing?
300
A machine that makes cloth out of thread.
What is a powered loom?
300
A site factor that has to do with the terrain and the resources in the terrain
What is land?
300
The type of transportation preferred for short-distance delivery.
What are trucks?
300
Russia's most important region for minerals
What is the Urals?
400
Factories built by U.S. companies in Mexico near the U.S. border, to take advantage of much lower costs in Mexico.
What are maquiladoras?
400
The place where industries were first clustered?
What are large towns and cities?
400
The type of land that businesses prefer to build contemporary factories on.
What is rural land?
400
A type of industry that prefers to locate near markets to ensure that the product is brought as quickly as possible.
What are perishable product industries?
400
Canada's most important region for proximity to the great lakes and Niagara Falls.
What is southeastern Ontario?
500
A U.S. state that has passed a law preventing a union and company from negotiating a contract that requires workers to join a union as a condition of employment.
What are right-to-work laws?
500
The period before the Industrial Revolution.
What is the cottage industry
500
A region in California that has proximity to skilled labor and capital.
What is California's Silicon Valley?
500
A type of manufacture that sells to only one or two customers.