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1 NAME PERIOD LOCATION OF INDUSTRIAL REGIONS AROUND THE WORLD DIRECTIONS: Complete the following chart using Chapter 11 Key Issue # 1 in your textbook. Describe the relative location of each region and the major industries and resources found there. Then give the absolute location on the map provided. On your map, color and label each of these areas according to the time period in which their industries developed. You may use the numbers next to the regions to label your regions on your map. Be sure to explain in your key, your color coding for the time periods during which these industries developed. 1. United Kingdom originally in the today outdated today centered in population center closet to Channel Tunnel. 2. Rhine-Ruhr Valley 3. Mid-Rhine Valley 4. Northern Italy Po Basin 5. Northeastern Spain 6. Central Industrial District in Eastern Europe Moscow other heavy-metal industries locomotives, machinery, and armaments lacks abundant except in France and Luxembourg portion where Europe s largest resource field is located. Center of most important market most important financial and commercial center and hub of its rail, road and air networks. numerous workers inexpensive raw material processors and mechanical part assemblers. manufacturing region. Centered on oldest of Russian industrial output near largest market products tend to be high value require skilled labor

2 7. St. Petersburg Industrial District on the specializes in 8. Volga Industrial District Russia s largest fields Motor vehicle industry, oil refining, chemicals, metallurgy, leather and fur 9. Urals Industrial District 10. Kuznetsk Industrial District 11. Eastern Ukraine Donetsk 12. Silesia over 1,000 types of minerals iron and steel manufacturing, chemicals, and machinery and metal fabricating hindered by lack of east of the Urals Russia s largest reserves of and abundant supply of Donetsk coal field one of the world s reserves Eastern Europe s largest producer of pig iron and important steel production center near coal fields must be imported. 13. New England began with today known for relatively labor

3 14. Middle Atlantic US market industries that depend on markets or ( have located there largest port ) near financial, communications and entertainment_industries 15. Mohawk Valley inexpensive (Niagara Falls) attracts aluminum, paper and electrochemical industries 16. Pittsburgh-Lake Erie nation s most important area due to proximity of 17. Western Great Lakes is the hub of transportation networks in the US automobile manufacturers and other industries with national markets locate here 18. Southeastern Ontario main suppliers of machine tools, transportation equipment, clothing, furniture, agricultural machinery and food products to the interior of the country central to markets close to the Great Lakes inexpensive (Niagara Falls) has attracted

4 19. Southern California / West Coast 20. Gulf Coast first in the aircraft and military equipment now a center for low-tech manufacturing (US s largest clothing and textile production, 2 nd largest furniture producer, and a major food processing center) industries support naval operations Silicon Valley high tech Boeing and Microsoft access to oil refining, petrochemical manufacturing, food processing, and product manufacturing. 21. Southeast US prevent a union from negotiating a contract that requires workers to be in the union. 22. Japan less expensive country because of industrialization has few began because of kept up by developing skilled workers (still for lower pay than in other countries) high quality electronics, precision instruments, and other products that require well trained workers.

5 23. Tianjin, Beijing & Shenyang world s most populous country largest economy (although low GDP) 24. Yangtze River Valley 25. Guangdong Province & Hong Kong has abundant reserves of coal, iron ore and other minerals recently, became a major manufacturer of steel, farm machinery, and construction materials leading exporter of to the US foreign investors are being attracted to China because of large market and the availability of low-cost labor 26. South Korea have few natural resources building industries based on.

1. United Kingdom 2. Rhine-Ruhr Valley 3. Mid-Rhine Valley 4.

St Petersburg Industrial District 8. Volga Industrial District 9.

Eastern Ukraine Donetsk 12. Silesia 13. New England 14. Middle Atlantic 15.

Southern California 19. Southeastern Ontario 20. Japan 21.

6 1. United Kingdom 2. Rhine-Ruhr Valley 3. Mid-Rhine Valley 4. Northern Italy Po Basin 5. Northeastern Spain 6. Moscow 7. St Petersburg Industrial District 8. Volga Industrial District 9. Urals Industrial District 10. Kuznetsk Industrial District 11. Eastern Ukraine Donetsk 12. Silesia 13. New England 14. Middle Atlantic 15. Mohawk Valley 16. Pittsburgh-Lake Erie 17. Western Great Lakes 18. Southern California 19. Southeastern Ontario 20. Japan 21. Tianjin, Beijing & Shenyang 22. Yangtze River Valley 23. Guangdong Province & Hong Kong 24. South Korea TIME PERIOD 19 th Century 20 th Century 21 st Century (number is circled by the appropriate color when known)

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