pre / industrial rev
The Industrial Revolution started in this country
What is the UK?
These factors are related to cost of transportation.
What are situation factors?
Why do many industries want to locate their production in developing countries?
Lower labor costs.
This term describes power supplied by animals and people.
What is animate power?
This term describes the increase in earth’s temperature caused by carbon dioxide trapping some of the radiation emitted by the surface.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, people used this kind of industry system where they made tools/equipment in their own home
What is a cottage industry system?
Site factors deal with these three things.
What is land, labor, and capital?
This term describes the process of turning over responsibility for production to independent suppliers (transnational corporations do this to developing countries).
What is outsourcing?
This term describes fuel derived from wood, plant material, or animal waste.
What is biomass fuel?
This gas absorbs UV radiation in the stratosphere.
What is ozone?
This invention largely made the Industrial Revolution possible.
What is the steam engine?
This is the term for an industry in which the inputs weigh more than the finished product.
What is a bulk-reducing industry?
Much of the world's future industry is expected to cluster in these 4 countries, referred to with the acronym BRIC.
What is Brazil, Russia, India, China?
These are the three types of fossil fuels.
This term describes water pollution that enters a body of water at a specific location.
What is point-source pollution?
According to Karl Marx, the Industrial Revolution caused the creation of a new working class, called this.
What is the proletariat?
The proximity to inputs has risen in recent years due to the rise of this kind of delivery, describing the shipment of parts to arrive at a factory moments before they are needed.
What is just-in-time delivery?
This term describes the selective transfer of some labor to developing countries while keeping some in developed countries.
What is the new international division of labor?
This type of nonrenewable energy is released through a process called fission.
This term descries the most common place for disposal of solid waste in the US.
What is a sanitary landfill?
Currently, these 4 countries account for one half of the world's industrial output.
Why is the car industry mostly located in Michigan?
Because the banks that were willing to lend them capital were located there.
This term describes the opposite of outsourcing--the typical form of mass production in which the company controls all parts of the manufacturing process.
What is vertical integration?
Name 3 types of renewable energy and how they work.
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Earth's protective layer is threatened by these pollutants found in solvents, aerosols, plastic foam, etc.
What are chlorofluorocarbons?