Industry and Technology
This machine used steam to power trains and factories in the past.
What is a steam engine?
These are areas just outside a city where people live, with homes, schools, and shops.
What are suburbs?
This is the pollution caused by a toxic metal that affects air, water, and land.
What is mercury pollution?
This major change in history helped factories use machines to make goods faster.
What is the industrial revolution?
These are modern tools like computers and robots used in factories.
What is high technology?
A company that works in many countries is called this.
What is a multinational corporation?
This is a man-made waterway used for transporting goods.
What is a canal?
This is the percentage of people who can read and write in a place.
What are Literacy Rates?
This train was powered by a steam engine and was used in the 1800s.
What is a steam locomotive?
This is a person or company hired to help with part of a larger job.
What is a subcontractor?
The process when factories use machines to make goods faster, which can sometimes cause pollution.
What is industrialization?
The way countries and businesses become more connected through trade and technology.
What is Globalization?
This industry makes clothing and fabric.
What is the textile industry?
This is when people or businesses move from one place to another.
What is relocation?
A place where goods are made mainly for selling to other countries.
What are export processing zones?
Work done by people, especially in factories or industries.
What is labour?
The process of improving buildings and businesses in an area.
What is development?
These countries are still growing and improving their economies.
What are developing countries?
Natural materials (like coal, oil, and water) or skills that people use to produce goods.
What are resources?