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An efficient manufacturing process in which components are added to a product in a sequential manner using optimally planned logistics, resulting in extremely fast production |
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An industry critical to the health of an area's economy. |
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A point at which a product is transferred from one shipping method to another. |
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Industrial land abandoned or underused due to real or perceived environmental contamination. |
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An industry whose products increase in size or weight during manufacturing |
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An industry whose products decrease in size or weight during manufacturing. |
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The monetary assets that a business possesses. |
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An industry, often manufacturing, that groups numerous independent producers, generally working from home. |
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A process of sociopolitical change in an area's economy in which industrial capacity and activity declines, to be replaced by information-based business. |
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An industry that can be located anywhere without any ramifications. |
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Special area(s) of a country where some normal trade barriers are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered in hopes of attracting new business and foreign investments. |
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| Form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to preform repeatedly |
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| Def: A stage at which an industry runs at its former location despite the disappearance of the location's desirable site factors. Ex: To some degree, the factories in America's "Rust Belt" are running on industrial inertia, as Mexican auto manufacturing has proven lucrative. |
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A period from the 18th to the 20th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times. Its hearth was Great Britain, but it quickly diffused to Western Europe, and, by proxy, its colonies. |
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The basic services and facilities needed for an area's economy to function |
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The cost advantages that a business gains due to expansion. |
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An industry where a high percentage of the overhead costs are consumed by paying employees.
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The textile industry needs to hire numerous dexterous workers in order to operate spinning machines |
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A theory of industrial location, developed by Alfred Weber, that locates industries based on their classifications as "bulk-reducing" or "bulk-gaining industries." |
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The summation of the works of Alfred Weber, Von Thunen, and others, concerning the location of economic activity. |
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A region in which manufacturing activities have clustered together. |
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The large-scale production of standardized products. |
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The usage of third-parties to perform functions for a business. |
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The industries taking place in the primary sector of the economy. |
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The substances from which a finished product is produced. |
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Industries that produces goods or services that are consumed locally. |
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Three economic factors based on the location of a factory: land, labor, and capital. |
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Economic factors considering the transportation of raw materials and products to and from a factory, concerning costs and methods (ship, rail, truck, or air). |
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The industries of the secondary sector of the economy. |
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The substitution of a product, service, or process to another that is more efficient or beneficial in some way with the same functionality. |
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A mechanical system of weights and pulleys to determine the ideal location of a factory based on the costs of transportation to and from the factory. |
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A German economist who pioneered the least-cost theory of industry. |
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The accumulation of acidic particles that settle out of the atmosphere or of acidic gases that are absorbed by plant tissues or other surfaces |
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Any form of precipitation, including rain, snow, hail, fog, or dew, that is high in acid pollutants, especially sulfuric and nitric acid |
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# of different species within a specific habitat |
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chemicals used as refrigerants, aerosol propellants, solvents, and in foam: some cause a breakdown of ozone in the earth's atmosphere |
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Utilized products containing iron and/or steel |
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Utilized metals NOT containing iron or steel |
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A gas that absorbs ultraviolet solar radiation, found in the stratosphere, a zone 9 to 30 miles above Earth's surface |
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the application of this effect to a planet's atmosphere; carbon dioxide and some other gases in the planet's atmosphere can absorb the infrared radiation emitted by the planet's surface as a result of exposure to solar radiation, thus increasing the mean temperature of the planet |
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The amount of oxygen required by aerobic microorganisms to decompose the organic matter in a sample of water and used as a measure of the degree of water pollution |
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The clustering of productive activities and people for mutual advantage. |
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