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industrial revolution
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A series of inventions and innovations, arising in England in the 1700's, that led to the use of machines and inanimate power in the manufacturing process.
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primary industry
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An industry engages in the extraction of natural resources, such as agriculture, lumbering, and mining.
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secondary industry
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An industry engages in processing raw materials into finished products; manufacturing.
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services
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The range of economic activities that provide services to industry.
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renewable resources
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A resource that is not depleted if wisely used, such as forests, water, fishing grounds, and agricultural lands.
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nonrenewable resources
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A resource that must be depleted to be used, such as petroleum.
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uneven development
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The tendency for industry to develop in a core-periphery pattern, enriching the industrialized countries of the core and impoverishing the less industrialized periphery. This term is also used to describe urban patterns in which suburban areas are enriched while the inner city is impoverished.
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technopole
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A center of high-tech manufacturing and information-based industry.
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deindustrialization
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The decline of primary and secondary industry, accompanied by a rise of the service sectors of the industrial economy.
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transnational corporations
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Companies that have international production, marketing, and management facilities.
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postindustrial phase
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A society characterized by the dominance of the service sectors of economic activity.
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transportation/communication services
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The range of economic activities that provide transport and communication to businesses.
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producer services
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The range of economic activities required by producers of goods.
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high-tech corridors
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An area along a limited-access highway that houses offices and other services associated with high-tech industries.
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consumer services
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The range of economic activities that facilitate the consumption of goods.
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cottage industry
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A traditional type of manufacturing in the preindustrial revolution era, practiced on a small scale in individual rural households as a part-time occupation and designed to produce handmade goods for local consumption.
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guild industry
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A traditional type of manufacturing in the preindustrial revolution era, involving handmade goods of high quality manufactured by highly skills artisans who resided in towns and cities.
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global warming
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The pronounced climatic warming of the Earth that has occurred since about 1920 and particularly since the 1970's.
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greenhouse effect
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A process in which the increased release of carbon dioxide and other gasses into the atmosphere, caused by industrial activity and deforestation, permits solar short-wave heat radiation to reach the Earth's surface but blocks long-wave outgoing radiation, causing a thermal imbalance and global heating.
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ecotourism
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Responsible travel that does not harm the ecosystems or the well-being of local people.
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labor-intensive industries
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An industry for which labor costs represent a large proportion of total production costs.
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footloose
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Industries that are able to shift the location of their facilities in order to take advantage of cheap labor.
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outsource
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The physical separation of some economic activities from the main production facility, usually for the purpose of employing cheaper labor.
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market
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The geographical area in which a product may be sold in a volume and at a price profitable to the manufacturer.
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agglomeration
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A snowballing geographical process by secondary and service industrial activities become clustered in cities and compact industrial regions in order to share infrastructure and markets.
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export processing zones
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Designated areas of countries where governments great conditions conducive to export-oriented production.
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industrial landscape
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Landscape forms that result from industrial avtivity.
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