North America
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| show | An area of spatial change where the peripheries of two adjacent realms or regions join; marked by a gradual shift characteristics that distinguish them.
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| show | A region within which there prevails substantial natural-landscape homogeneity, expressed by a certain degree of uniformity in surface relief, climate, vegetation, and soils.
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| show | The difference in temperature in relation to the ocean.
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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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| show | A country where the government represents several groups (nation state). They have common interests.
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| Aquifer | show 🗑
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| show | North America’s near-rectangular core area, whose corners are Boston, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Baltimore.
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| Distribution center | show 🗑
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| show | Facilities and activities related to the transfer of goods in transit from one transportation mode to another (e.g., the loading of containers from a ship directly onto a truck or railcar).
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| show | The non-central-city portion of the American metropolis; no longer “sub” to the “urb,” this outer ring was transformed into a full-fledged city during the late twentieth century.
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| show | The downtown heart of a central city; marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings.
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| Information economy | show 🗑
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| show | The orbiting-satellite-based navigation system that provides locational and time information, anywhere on or near the Earth’s surface where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.
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| Gentrification | show 🗑
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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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| show | Popular name for Ca, Tx, and Fl. High temperatures, lots of recreational activates, and tourism.
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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 | Name given Canada’s indigenous peoples of American descent, whose U.S. counterparts are called Native Americans.
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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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