Unit 7 part 2

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Across
  1. 3. A service that primarily meets the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services.
  2. 4. A service that primarily meets the needs of individual consumers, including retail, education, health, and leisure services.
  3. 5. These factors result from the unique characteristics of a location. These are labor, capital, and land.
  4. 9. The Industrial Revolution, now also known as the First Industrial Revolution, was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
  5. 10. A theory that explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.
  6. 12. A commodity, article, or service brought in from abroad (a foreign country) for sale.
  7. 13. The transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. A system or network that allows trade is called a market.
  8. 14. Makes something that gains volume or weight during production.
  9. 15. A type of operation or industry that involves extracting or refining natural resources, such as mining, agriculture, forestry, and fishing.
Down
  1. 1. A decision by a corporation to turn over much of the responsibility for production to independent suppliers.
  2. 2. These factors involve transporting materials to and from a factory. A firm seeks a location that minimizes the cost of transporting inputs to the factory and finished goods to consumers.
  3. 6. The period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.
  4. 7. A process that links people around the world as a result of shared activities and interests. Fueled by technology and an expanding communication network, globalization creates cultural, social, environmental, health, and economic connections among countries.
  5. 8. The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services (also known as hinterland).
  6. 11. Manufacturing based in homes rather than in factories, most common prior to the Industrial Revolution.