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Question | Answer |
Bauxite | Aluminium ore, which is used to make aluminium |
Capital | Money or assets available for investments |
Carcinogenic | Has the potential to cause cancer |
Developed world | Wealthy countries with good services and high living standards; also known as the North or First World countries |
Developing world | Poor countries with few services and low living standards; also known as the South or Third World countries |
Footloose | An industry that is not tied to a specific location |
Global | Of or relating to the whole world; worldwide |
Heavy industry | The manufacture of goods in which heavy or bulky raw materials are used (e.g smelting, oil refining) |
Incinerator | An enclosed chamber used to burn waste |
Industrialised | Has developed industries on a wide scale (e.g Europe) |
Industrially emergent | Has little or no modern manufacturing (e.g Sub-Saharan Africa) |
Inertia | A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged |
Labour force | People who are able to work |
Light industry | Manufacturing activity that uses moderate amounts of raw materials to produce goods (e.g fashion, electronics) |
Market | A place where goods are bought and sold; also, a group of people who buy goods |
MNC | Multinational Corporation |
Multinational corporation | A company who is based in more than one country |
Newly Industrialised | Has rapidly increased industrial activity in the recent decades (e.g South-East Asia) |
Policy | A plan or course of action |
Produced | A thing produced by effort |
Raw material | The basic material from which a product is made |
Transport | The movement of people, materials or goods from one place to another |
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