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| 6525130245 | Acid rain | rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions | 0 | |
| 6525146013 | Agglomeration | A process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. | 1 | |
| 6525147903 | Agglomeration economies | The savings to an individual enterprise derived from locational association with a cluster of other similar economic activities, such as other factories or retail stores | 2 | |
| 6525149360 | Air pollution | pollution of the atmosphere | 3 | |
| 6525151558 | Aluminum industry (factors of production, location) | manufacturers of aluminum considered as a group | 4 | |
| 6525151559 | Assembly line production/Fordism | industrial arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers for continuous flow of work pieces in mass production operations, each movement of material is made as simple and short as possible | 5 | |
| 6525154916 | Bid rent theory | geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases. | 6 | |
| 6525154917 | Break-of-bulk point | A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another. | 7 | |
| 6525158025 | Canadian industrial heartland | the St. Lawrence Valley - Ontario Peninsula | 8 | |
| 6525159676 | Carrier efficiency | An organization that provides communications and networking services | 9 | |
| 6525159677 | Comparative advantage | An organization that provides communications and networking services | 10 | |
| 6525161689 | Cumulative causation | an expression of the multiplier effect, it tends to favor major cities and core regions over less-advantaged peripheral regions | 11 | |
| 6525161690 | Deglomeration | The process of industrial deconcentration in response to technological advances and/or increasing costs due to congestion and competition. | 12 | |
| 6525163645 | Deindustrialization | process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor, leaving the newly deindustrialized region to switch to a service economy and to work through a period of high unemployment | 13 | |
| 6525163646 | Economic sectors | primary secondary tertiary quaternary | 14 | |
| 6525166696 | Economies of scale | as a company produces larger numbers of a particular product, the cost of each of these products goes down | 15 | |
| 6525166697 | Ecotourism | ourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature | 16 | |
| 6525170198 | Energy resources | natural resources that provide people with energy | 17 | |
| 6525170199 | Entrepôt | a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported without paying import duties | 18 | |
| 6525174645 | Export processing zone | areas where governments create favorable investments and trading conditions to attract | 19 | |
| 6525180984 | Fixed costs | costs that do not vary with the quantity of output produced | 20 | |
| 6525180985 | Footloose industry | industry in which the cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not important for the location of firms | 21 | |
| 6525183623 | Four Tigers | 22 | ||
| 6525183624 | Greenhouse effect | warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere | 23 | |
| 6525185403 | Growth poles | economic activities that are deliberately organized around one or more high-growth industries | 24 | |
| 6525187089 | Heartland/rimland | Heartland is the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture. Rimland is the maritime fringe of a country or continent. | 25 | |
| 6525190721 | Industrial location theory | Alfred Weber, the selection of optimal factory locations has much to do with the minimization of land, labor, resource, and transportation costs, variable-cost framework that affects location of factory sites | 26 | |
| 6525193457 | Industrial regions (place, fuel source, characteristics) | Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, East Asia | 27 | |
| 6525194856 | Industrial Revolution | the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production | 28 | |
| 6525194857 | Industry (receding, growing) | R industry is diminishing in size and importance G industry is increasing in size and importance | 29 | |
| 6525197497 | Infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | 30 | |
| 6525197498 | International division of labor | the highest form of the social and territorial division of labor; the specialization of countries in the production of particular types of products, which they use for exchange | 31 | |
| 6525199369 | Labor-intensive | Labor intensive refers to a process or industry that requires a large amount of labor to produce its goods or services. | 32 | |
| 6525199370 | Least-cost location | Model developed by Alfred Weber according to which the location of manufacturing establishments is determined by the minimization of three critical expenses: labor, transportation, and agglomeration. | 33 | |
| 6532771328 | Major manufacturing regions | Great Lakes Brazil Central England tokyo | 34 | |
| 6532771329 | Manufacturing exports | The place in which the production and manufacturing of goods is exported. | 35 | |
| 6532774951 | Manufacturing/warehouse location | Based on the principle of agglomeration | 36 | |
| 6532774952 | Maquiladora | Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico. | 37 | |
| 6532778522 | Market orientation | a philosophy that assumes that a sale does not depend on an aggressive sales force but rather on a customer's decision to purchase product | 38 | |
| 6532778523 | Multiplier effect | expansion of economic activity caused by the growth or introduction of another economic activity | 39 | |
| 6532780393 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement | 40 | |
| 6532782476 | Outsourcing | contracting out selected functions or activities of an organization to other organizations that can do the work more cost efficiently | 41 | |
| 6532782477 | Ozone depletion | thinning of Earth's ozone layer | 42 | |
| 6532784809 | Plant location (supplies, "just in time" delivery) | factory is located close to market and supplier to reduce need for stalk items, and supplies, "Just in time" delivery. | 43 | |
| 6532787181 | Postindustrial | of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | 44 | |
| 6532787182 | Refrigeration | the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes | 45 | |
| 6532790090 | Resource crisis | When resources for a national or global market run low.When resources for a national or global market run low. | 46 | |
| 6532790091 | Resource orientation | tendency for an industry or other type of economic activity to locate close to its resources | 47 | |
| 6532792857 | Special economic zones (China) | Improved transportation, lower taxes, and other incentives attracted investments from foreign businesses. | 48 | |
| 6532792858 | Specialized economic zones | specific area within a country in which tax incentives and less stringent environmental regulations are implemented to attract foreign business and investment. | 49 | |
| 6532794781 | Substitution principle | Principle that maintains that the correct location of a production facility is where the net profit is the greatest. | 50 | |
| 6532794782 | Threshold/range | The population required to make provision of services economically feasible. | 51 | |
| 6532797169 | Time-space compression | through processes such as globalization time is accelerated and the significance of space is reduced | 52 | |
| 6532797170 | Topocide | The deliberate killing of a place through industrial expansion and change, so that its earlier landscape and character are destroyed. | 53 | |
| 6532798871 | Trade (complementarity) | the idea that one country can produce products that another country can't; the other country will then trade for those products with its own products that the other country can't produce | 54 | |
| 6532805286 | Transnational corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries | 55 | |
| 6532805287 | Ubiquitous | specific industry is inseparable from target market | 56 | |
| 6532806934 | Variable costs | expenses that change with the number of products produced | 57 | |
| 6532806935 | Weber, Alfred | Creator of the model that states that the optimum location of a manufacturing firm is explained in terms of cost minimization. | 58 | |
| 6532809595 | Weight-gaining | finished products weigh more than raw materials, so the factory needs to be close to the market | 59 | |
| 6532811697 | Weight-losing | raw materials weigh more than the finished product, so the factory needs to be close to the resources | 60 | |
| 6532811698 | World cities | a group of cities that form an interconnected, internationally dominant system of global control of finance and commerce | 61 |
