Chapter 9 Vocab Flashcards
Secondary industries
Process raw materials extracted by primary industries Ex: logs into lumber, or fish are processed and canned
Primary industry
Involves extraction of natural resources. Ex: farming or mining
Cottage industry
Objects for family use were made in each house
Guild industry
Professional organizations highly skilled full-time in trade
Technopoles
Centers of high-tech manufacturing, research/development l, and info generation
Uneven development
Regional disparity
Deidustrialization
The decline and fall of a once prosperous factory
Ongoing locational shift in manufacturing regions is the work of…
Transnational corporations
Post-industrial phase
Decline of primary and secondary industries
High-tech corridors
Areas along limited access highways that contain offices and other services with high tech industries