APHG Industry

A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another.

• Acid deposition

• Break-of-bulk point

• Bulk-gaining industry

• Site factors

An industry in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs.

• Bulk-gaining industry

• Cottage industry

• Bulk-reducing industry

• Apparel

An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs.

• Just-in-time delivery

• Bulk-gaining industry

• Bulk-reducing industry

• Right-to-work law

A form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to preform repeatedly

• Green House

• Break-of-bulk

• Air Pollution

• Fordist Production

• Ferrous

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

• New international division of labor

• Air pollution

• Apparel

• Industrial Revolution

Shipment of parts and materials to arrive at a factory moments before they are needed

• Just-in-time delivery

• Labor-intensive industry

• Cottage Industry

• Bulk-reducing industry

Transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid, less-skilled workers, from more developed to less developed countries.

• Apparel

• Acid deposition

• Greenhouse effect

• New International Division of Labor

A decision by a corporation to turn over much of the responsibility for production to independent suppliers.

• Ozone

• Photochemical smog

• Outsourcing

• Textile

Which of the following regions are primary industrial regions? 

• Western and Central Europe 
• Eastern North America 
• Russia and the Ukraine and Eastern Asia
• All of the above

The five stages of growth experienced by countries who ascribe to the international trade approach to economic development; namely, traditional society, preconditions for take-off, take-off, drive to maturity, and the age of high mass consumption.

• Rostow's Stages of Growth Model 
• Hotelling's Model 
• Demographic Transition Model 
• Development Transition Model