1. A company adds a warehouse in Asheville to ensure
products could more quickly reach customers in western
North Carolina.

Distribution

Explanation:

Distribution is the act of making the product available to the consumers as soon as possible.It is clear that the company tries to make the distribution process easier.  When a warehouse is added near the point of distribution the products will reach the customers in a quick manner.

When a warehouse is added nearby the store the company will be able to reduce the channels of distribution which can save money and time for the company.

The answers are "Equator" and "Prime Meridian" The grid system gives every point on the earth an address that can be represented as the intersection of two lines, latitude and longitude. The equator is the starting point for measuring latitude (0 degrees latitude), the numbers measure how far north or south of the equator a place is. Longitude shows how far a location is east of the Prime Meridian (0 degrees longitude) , which runs vertically, north and south, right over the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich England, from the North to the South Pole.