Geography (Unit VIII)

-Mechanisation: The use of machinery in the production process.
-Mining: The process of extracting minerals from the ground.
-Mineral: A naturally occurring solid chemical substance such as bauxite. Most minerals need to be transformed to enable them to be used for manufacturing products.
-Fossil fuels: Fuels that are formed by the decomposition of buried organic material, and exposure to heat ad pressure, producing substances such as coal, oil and gas.
-Industry: Any economic activity that produces a service or transforms raw materials into consumer goods.
-Energy: Power that comes from the utilization of physical or chemical resources to provide light and heat.
-Biomass: Organic material used as a fuel that releases energy when burned.
-Management: The people that run a company and ensure that goods and services of a high enough quality are produced and sold at competitive prices.
-Workforce:  The employees required to produce goods and services.
-Wind turbine: A device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy to drive machinery or generate electricity.
-Solar panel: is a set of solar photovoltaic electrically connected and mounted on a supporting structure.
.Renewable energy: is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale.
-Non-renewable energy: is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human-frames.
-Traditional energy: Refers to the energy sources that are most commonly used, such as oil.
-Alternative energy: refers to sources that are still being developed, such as solar energy.
-Dam: is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams.
-Guild: is an association of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town.
-Heavy indsutry: It can mean production of products which are either heavy in weight or in the processes leading to their production.
-Ligh industry: is usually less capital intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented.
-Craftperson: A person who makes products using basic tools and manual labour.