GEO AND HISTORY PROJECT

GEO AND HISTORY PROJECT

By: Enrico Veloce and Jared Levy

10 vocabulary words

1. INDUSTRIALIZATION

definition

1. The process of expanding and intensifying industrial activities.

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2. Development

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The process of improving living conditions.

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3. Industrial Revolution

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The period that changed the history of work.

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4. Steel Production

definition

All the operation for converting iron into steel.

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5. High Technology

definition

Technology that uses the most recent scientific technology.

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6. Concentration

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A large number of elements in a given space.

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7.Commercialization

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Placing a product or service on the market.

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8. Marketing

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All operations necessary for selling products.

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9.STEAM LOCMOTIVE

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A machine built to transport products faster to companies.

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10. Relocation

definition

Change in the geographic site of a company’s activities to reduce production cost.

20 questions and answers 1. What are the 3 sectors of economic activity?

2. What sector do you sell the product?

3.Where did industrialization begin?

answers 1. Primary sector, secondary sector and tertiary

sector.

2. Tertiary sector.

3. Industrialization began in Europe.

QUESTIONS 4. When did Industrialization begin?

5. Name 2 inventions related to industrialization.

6. Who invented the steam engine?

Answers 4. At the end of the 18th century.

5. The steam engine, steam locomotive, mechanical loom, etc.

6. James Watt invented the steam engine.

Questions 7. Who invented the steam locomotive?

8. How did the steam engine help industrialization?

9. Why did companies set itself near to energy resourses and raw materials?

Answers 7. George stephson invented the steam locomotive.

8. The steam engine transformed and speeded up the product manufacturing process.

9. Because it was advantageous to set itself somewhere what you need.

Questions 10. If you were making a company what

company, where would you put it? why?

11. What are the bad things factories did to the environment?

12. True or False urbanization helped industrialization?

Answers 10. I would make a furniture company and place

it right by trees because I don’t need to pay as much and get it right away instead of transporting objects.

11. The last century factories dumped over 30000 toxic chemicals into the Great Lakes.

12. True.

QUETSIONS 13. Define the word commercialization?

14. In what part of the world has the highest concentration of industrial zones found?

15. True or False, the last decade China’s steel production has been weak growth?

Answers 13. placing a product on the market.

14. Europe

15. False, the growth was strong.

Questions 16. True or false Ethiopia still uses a lot of

hand made machines?

17. Why do some companies have there cars manufactured in several places?

18. What does IDL stand for?

Answers 16. True

17. It offers more advantages for a lower price.

18. International division of labour.

Questions 19. Who gave industrialized countries

environmental laws?

20. What does minimum wage mean?

19. Themselves

20. Its the minimum compensation a company must pay for a hour of service.

Top 15 facts 1. Three sectors of economic activity: Primary sector, Secondary sector and

tertiary sector. 2. Primary sector: natural resource developpement. 3. Secondary sector: to convert raw materials into consumer products. 4. Tertiary sector: sells the product. 5. The industrial revolution was from 1750-1900. 6. Industrialization began in Europe. 7. Industrialization revolution is something that completely changed history of

work. 8. During the last century companies have dumped over 30000 toxic chemicals. 9. Steam locomotive was one invention during the industrialization revolution. 10. The set of changes to the industrial activity is called industrialization. 11. Between 1955 and 1985 life expectancy increased by 16 years. 12. Industrialization helps developing countries take their place in the world

economy. 13. Over the last decade China steel production has experienced strong growth. 14. Industrialization caused urbanization. 15. Many people lose their job during industrialization.