North America
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| Transition zone | show 🗑
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| Physiographic region | show 🗑
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| Continentality | show 🗑
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| show | The relative dryness in areas downwind of mountain ranges resulting from orographic precipitation, wherein moist air masses are forced to deposit most of their water content as they cross the highlands.
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| Federation | show 🗑
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| show | An underground reservoir of water contained within a porous, water-bearing rock layer.
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| show | Unrenewable fuel source.
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| show | A hierarchical network or grouping of urban areas within a finite geographic area, such as a country
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| American Manufacturing Belt | show 🗑
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| show | A place centered around the distribution of goods.
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| Intermodal connections | show 🗑
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| Outer city | show 🗑
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| Deindustrialization | show 🗑
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| show | A new economy based around technology information.
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| GPS (Global Positioning System) | show 🗑
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| show | Upgrades of older residential areas through private reinvestment usually in downtown. Displacement of lower-income residents is very common.
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| show | The impact of one’s neighborhood on an individual’s outlook, aspirations, socialization, and life chances.
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| show | The spatial distribution of a residential population. The term is most often used by urban geographers to describe the clustering of various social groups into the neighborhoods that form the residential fabric of cities and suburbs.
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| Sunbelt | show 🗑
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| show | A change in residence intended to be permanent.
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| show | The spatial distribution of political preferences as expressed in voting behavior for political parties and/or candidates.
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| show | A variety of ethnicities in one place. Ex: Florida
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| show | A major centre for finance, trade, business, politics, culture, science information gathering and mass media. [Like New York or London]
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| show | A planned techno-industrial complex (such as California’s Silicon Valley) that innovates, promotes, and manufactures the products of the postindustrial information economy.
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| show | Discontinuous regions surrounding the great Pacific Ocean that have experienced spectacular economic growth and progress over the past four decades.
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| show | The main source of oil from non-liquid petroleum reserves.
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| show | The subarctic, mostly coniferous snowforest that blankets Canada south of the tundra that lines the Arctic shore; known as the taiga in Russia.
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