Definition: The accumulation of acids or acidic compounds on the surface of the Earth, in lakes or streams, or on objects or vegetation near the Earth's surface, as a result of their separation from the atmosphere

Characteristics: Acids, water, earth

Example: Acidic water

Nonexample: Radioactive waste

Definition: Precipitation abnormally high in sulfuric and nitric acid content that is caused by atmospheric pollutants.

Characteristics: Water, Acid, Atmosphere

Examples: Acid Rain

Nonexamples: Tap water

Definition: A system designed to convert solar radiation into usable energy for space, water heating, or other uses. It requires a mechanical device, usually a pump or fan, to collect the sun's energy.

Characteristics: Conversion, Sun

Example: Solar Panels

Nonexample: Electricity

Defenition: A concentration of services clustered together; the lower the cost of production (firms have competing multiple suppliers, greater specialization and division of labor result) and the greater the market that the firm can sell into.

Characteristics: Production, Market, Low-cost workers

Example: Chinese Workers

NonExample: American Workers

Defenition:

Characteristics: Chemicals, atomosphere, pollution

Example: Global Warming

NonExample: Fresh Air

Defenition:

Characteristics:

dead, matter, fuel

Example:

Oil

NonExample:

Water

Defenition:

Characteristics:

cargo, units, seperation

Example:

Dock

NonExample:

UPS

Defenition:

Characteristics:

nuclear reactor, production

Example:

NonExample:

Microwave

Defenition:

Characteristics:

heavy, increased weight

Example:

Cement

NonExample:

Swimming Pool

Defenition:

Characteristics:

production, decreased weight

Example:

NonExample:

Cement

Defenition: any of several volatile, inert, saturated compounds of carbon, fluorine, chlorine, and hydrogen: used as refrigerants, foam-blowing agents, solvents, and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer.

Characteristics:

compounds of carbon, fluorine, chlorine, hydrogen

Example:

Green houses gas

NonExample:

Water

Defenition: the ability of an individual or group to carry out an economic activity, such as production, at a lower cost and more efficiently than another entity

Characteristics:

economics, low cost, efficienncy

Example:

Sweat Shops

NonExample:

Robots

the careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion

characeristics-

careful, natural resource

example-

solar energy

nonexample-

fossil fuel

                the production, for sale, of goods at home, as the making of handicrafts by rural families.

Characteristics-

Goods, home, sale, rural

Example-

Yard sale

Nonexample-

walmart

:

a commercial center where goods are received for distribution, transshipment, or repackaging

characteristics-

goods, distributuion, commercial center

example-

UPS

Nonexample-

mall

Also called nuclear fission. Physics. the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into nuclei of lighter atoms, accompanied by the release of energy

Characteristics-

Splitting, atoms, nuclei, energy, release

Example-

Nuclear Fission

Nonexample-

Isotopes

Industry that can be sited in any of a number of places, often because transport costs are unimportant. Such industries may have raw materials that are commonly available, for example a bakery

Characteristics-

Common, industry, unrare, goods

Example-

Bakery

Nonexample-

Specialty shop

he system formulated in Henry Ford's automotive factories, in which workers work on a production line, performing specialized tasks repetitively

characteristics-

automechanincs, tasks, factory

example-

production line

nonexample-

investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) 

characteristics-

invest, foreign citizen, u.s. based business

example-

investing in Subway

nonexample-

investing in Suzuki

any combustible organic material, as oil, coal, or natural gas, derived from the remains of former life.

Characteristics-

Organic, materials, dead matter

Example-

Biomass

Nonexample-

plastic

is a measure of inequalities between men's and women's opportunities in a country. It combines inequalities in three areas: political participation and decision making, economic participation and decision making, and power over economic resources.

Characteristics-

Inequality, male to female, inopportunity

Example-

Construction

Nonexample-

teaching

energy obtained from within the earth, originating in its core; also, energy produced by extracting the earth's internal heat and turning it into other energy (mechanical or electric)

characteristics-

energy, earth core, internal heat

example-

MELTING core

Nonexample-

Solar panel

an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect

characteristics-

earth, average, atmospheric, temperature, climate, greenhouse, effect

example-

Green House Gases

Nonexample-

Basketball

an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.

Characteristics-

Atmosphere, heat, radiation, transmittion

Example-

Global Warming

Nonexample-

Sunshine

The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a nation during a specified period.

Characteristics-

Total, market, valuem goods, service

Example-

Prices

Nonexample-

Amount of goods and services

the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate

characteristics-

time, atoms, half, radioactive, substance

example-

Uranium

Nonexample-

Water

The Human Development Index (HDI) is an index combining normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide

Characteristics-

Measures, life, expectancy, educational attainment

Example-

Distribution Model

Nonexample-

Green House Gases

the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools.

Characteristics-

Facilities, city, area

Example-

School

Nonexample-

Individual home

The phenomena of the last 40 years of LDCs being centers for manufacturing goods for market in MDCs and MDCs creating wealth through investment in LDCs. 

Characteristics-

LDC, manufactoring, wealth, investment

Example-

China

Nonexample-

Denmark

an international organization that promotes the stabilization of the world's currencies and maintains a monetary pool from which member nations can draw in order to correct a deficit in their balance of payments: a specialized agency of the United Nations.

Characteristics-

Organization, currency

Example-

United nations

Non example-

Welfare

The process of creating a product for sale.

Characteristics-

Production, goods, sales

Example-

Factory

Nonexample-

beach

the dominant system of economic production, consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century

characteristics-

economic production, consumption and socio-econmic phenomena, before the industrial revolution

example-

nonexample-

assembly line

The manufacturing industries that aggregate, pack, package, purify or process the raw materials close to the primary producers include agriculture, agribusiness, fishing, forestry and all mining and quarrying industries.

Characteristics-

Manufactor, industry, purification, process, materials

Example-

Process plant

Nonexample-

Grocery store

A measure of efficiency of the production of goods and services having exchange value.

Characteristics-

Efficient, production, goods, services

Example-

Creativity

Nonexample-

Standing still

An adjustment of the value of currency in terms of the goods they can buy.

Characteristics-

Currency, value, goods

Example-

Inflation

Nonexample-

Gross Domestic Product

the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.

Characteristics-

Emittin, radiation, nuclei, atom, element

Example-

Radiation

Nonexample-

Nuetral Atoms

Self-sufficiency refers to the state of not requiring any outside aid, support, or interaction, for survival;

Characteristics-

Non-requiring, no aid, independent

Example-

Independent

Nonexample-

dependent

Availability of land, labor, and capital. 

Characteristics-

Available, land, labor, capital

Example-

Open field

Nonexample-

city

The associated costs of shipping materials to and from a factory. 

Characteristics-

Shipping, cost, materials

Example-

Ground Shipping

Nonexample-

GPS

The distance a good can travel from the point of production or distribution and still be useful. 

Characteristics-

Travel, good, distance

Example-

Parishable

Nonexample-

Beach

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments

Characteristics-

Global, international, organization, trade

Example-

United nations

Nonexample-

war