Chapter 2
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| show | Aboriginal or native; an example would be the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas.
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| NAFTA | show 🗑
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| show | The free-trade area launched in 1994 involving the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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| show | modern industrial plants in Mexico’s U.S. border. foreign-owned factories import components, raw materials, export finished manufactures, to the United States.
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| show | A narrow isthmian link between two large landmasses. They are temporary features—at least when measured in geologic time—subject to appearance and disappearance as the land or sea level rises and falls.
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| Archipelago | show 🗑
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| Hurricane Alley | show 🗑
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| show | Vertical regions defined by physical-environmental zones at various elevations particularly in the highlands of South and Middle America.
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| Tropical deforestation | show 🗑
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| show | Heartland, source area, or innovation center; place of origin of a major culture.
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| show | The degree of direct linkage between a particular location and other locations within a regional, national, or global transportation network.
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| show | disadvantages faced by lower-income island-states, of their small territorial size and populations as well as overland inaccessibility. Limited resources,expensive importing of many goods and services;
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| show | Cultural modification resulting from intercultural borrowing. In cultural geography, the term refers to the change that occurs in the culture of indigenous peoples when contact is made with a society that is technologically superior.
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| show | A much higher than usual, world-class geographic concentration of natural plant and/or animal species. Tropical rainforest environments have dominated, but their recent ravaging by deforestation has had catastrophic results.
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| show | Term referring to financial havens for foreign companies and individuals, who channel their earnings to accounts in such a country (usually an “offshore” island-state) to avoid paying taxes in their home countries.
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| show | Money earned by emigrants that is sent back to family and friends in their home country, mostly in cash; forms an important part of the economy in poorer countries.
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| show | smoothly integrates different surface transportation modes. The shipping of cargo containers depends on fast and efficient transfers: they can be stacked on the decks and in the holds of ships as well as attaching to flatbed railcars and trailer trucks.
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| show | In a layered or stratified society, the population is divided into a hierarchy of social classes. In an industrialized society, the working class is at the lower end; elites that possess capital and control the means of production are at the upper level.
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| show | A person of mixed African (black) and European (white) ancestry.
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