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Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Borderland | General term for linear zone that parallels a political boundary. |
Transition Zone | An area of spatial change where the peripheries of two adjacent realms or regions join. |
Physiographic Regions | A region within which there prevailing substantial natural-landscape homogeneity, expressed by a certain degree of uniformity in surface relief, climate, vegetation, and soils. |
Continetality | The variation of the continental effect on air temperatures in the interior portions if worlds land masses. |
Rain shadow effect | The relative dryness in areas downwind of mountain ranges resulting from orographic precipitation, wherein most air masses are forces to deposit most of their water content as they cross highlands. |
Federations | A country adhering to a political framework where in a central government represents subnational entities within a nation state. |
Aquifer | An underground reservoir of water contained within a porous, water-bearing rock layer. |
Fossil Fuel | Energy resources of coal, natural gas, and petroleum(oil). |
Urban System | A hierarchical network or grouping areas within a finite geographic area, such as a country. |
American Manufacturing Belt | North America’s near-rectangle core area, whose corners are Boston, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Baltimore. |
Distribution Center | A centralized focus of economic activity specializing in the distribution of goods, situated as a major hub on its regional transportation network. |
Inter model Connections | Facilities and activities related to the transfer of goods in transit from one transportation mode to another. |
Outer City | The non-central-city portion of the American metropolis. |
Deindustrialization | Combines relocate manufacturing jobs to other regions for cheaper labor. |
Central Business District (CBD) | The downtown heart of a central city; marked by high land values. |
Information economy | The new, increasingly dominant, postindustrial economy that is maturing in the most highly advanced countries of North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. |
GPS(Global Positioning System) | The orbiting-satellite-based navigation system that provides locational and time information anywhere on Earths surface. |
Gentrification | The upgrading of an older residential area through private reinvestment, usually in the downtown area of a central city. |
Neighbourhood effect | The impact if ones neighborhood on an individual’s outlook, aspirations, socialization, and life chances. |
Residential Geography | The spatial distribution of a residential population. |
Sunbelt | Warmer climate, superior recreational opportunities, and other amenities attracting large numbers of relocating people. |
Migration | A chance in residence intended to be permanent |
Electoral Geography | The spatial distribution of political preferences as expresses in voting behavior for political parties and/or candidates |
Melting Pot | Traditional characterization of American society as a blend of numerous immigrant ethnic groups that over time we're assimilated into a single societal mainstream. |
First Nations | Name given Canada’s indigenous people of American descent, whose U.S. counterparts are called Native Americans. |
World-City | A large city with particularly significant international (economic) linkages that also has a high ranking in the global urban system. |
Technopole | A planned techno-industrisal complex (such as Claiformiq’s Silicon Valley) that inovates, promotes, and manufactures the products of the post industrial information economy. |
Pacific Rim | A far-flung group if countries (extending clockwise on the map from New Zealans to Chile) sharing the following criteria: face the Pacific ocean, |
Tar Sands | The main source of oil from non-liquid petroleum reserves. Oil and sand mixed and extracted. |
Boreal Forest | The subarctic, mostly conferous snowforest that blankets Canada south of the tundra that lined the Arctic shore; known as the taiha in Russia. |