1st Quarter Exam Flashcards
(186 cards)
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Region made up of different places that are linked and function as a unit
Many churches one religion
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Functional region
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An area with one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas
Oasis in the desert
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Formal region
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The study of weather
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Meteorology
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The study of maps and mapmaking
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Cartography
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with one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas
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Region
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Regions that reflect human feelings and attitudes
Jamaica and Hawaii
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Perceptual regions
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What do geographers use to understand the world
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Spatial perspective
they look for patterns and try to explain them
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What are the two branches of geography
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Human geography and physical geography
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Studiesmthe distribution and characteristics of the world’s people
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Human geography
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Natural environment
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Physical geography
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A mapmaker
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Cartographer
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A person who studies the weather
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Meteorologist
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What are the three types of regions
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Formal functional perceptual
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The grid on a globe is made up of
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Longitude and latitude
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The_____lies halfway between the north and south poles
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Equator
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Lines of latitude are also called
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Parallels
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Lines of longitude are also called
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Meridians
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The_____ is an imaginary line drawn from the north pole to the South Pole
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Prime meridian
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What do parallels and meridians measure distance in
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Degrees
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A collection of maps all in one book
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Atlas
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Mapmakers put our round earth on a flat map using
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Map projection
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Name the tree map projections
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Cylindrical conic flat plane
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The shortest route between any two places on the planet is called
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Great circle route
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Helps us determine real distance between points on a map
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Distance scales
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A compass Rose is a type of
Directional indicator
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Identifies the symbols on a map and what they represent
Legend
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Most accurate at the equator (where the paper touches)
Advantages: direction and shape
Disadvantage: north gets bigger. South gets smaller
Cylindrical projection
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Where the cone touches Is most accurate
Advantages: Direction and shape
Disadvantages: Shows less
Conic projection
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Touches only at one point
Advantages: Perfect direction
shortest distance is not straight-great distance route
Disadvantages: Size coastline shape
Flat plane projection
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The study of everything on earth from rocks and rainfall to people and places
Geography
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The two halves of the globe
Hemispheres
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Shows the average temperatures and precipitation in a place
Climate graph
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The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place
Weather
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Weather conditions in a geographic location over a long time are called
Climate
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Winds that blow from the same direction most of the time
Prevailing winds
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How does a front occur
Went to air masses of widely different temperatures or moisture levels meet
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What is the Gulf Stream
A warm water current
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Process in which water changes from a liquid to a gas
Evaporation
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The amount of water in the air
Humidity
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Process by which water vapor changes from a gas into liquid droplets
Condensation
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Occurs when moist air pushes against a mountain
Orographic effect
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Middle latitude storms
Tornadoes
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Most powerful and destructive tropical cyclones
Hurricanes
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The name of hurricanes in the Western Pacific ocean
Typhoons
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A dryer area on the Leeward side of the mountain range
Rain shadow
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The study of the Earth's physical structure and the processes that have created them
Geology
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Rocks break and decay overtime in a process is called
Weathering
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What causes erosion
Water wind and ice
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Movement of water through the hydrosphere is called the
Hydrologic cycle
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First and smaller streams from Runoff
Headwaters
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Any small stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river
Tributary
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The whole region drained by the river and its tributaries
| Drainage basin
Watershed
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Provide water supplies fish and recreation opportunities
Lakes
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Semi enclosed body of water where fresh water and sea water mix
Estuaries
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Any landscape that is covered with water for at least part of the year
Wetlands
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Can move apart collide or slip past each other
Tectonic plates
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When two plates on the ocean floor collide
One slides underneath the other
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How are most mountains formed
Tectonic plate collisions
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Explains how forces within Earth create landforms
The theory of plate tectonics
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Name to renewable resources
Soil and forests
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Name three nonrenewable resources
Coal natural gas and petroleum
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The Statistical study of human population
Demography
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Information in number form
Statistics
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The average number of people living in an area
Population density
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Number of births each year for every 1000 people
Birthrate
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Total number of deaths each year for every 1000 people
Death rate
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Process of moving from one place to live in another
Migration
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People who leave a country to live somewhere else
Emigrants
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People who come to a new country to live
Immigrants
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What are some push factors name some
Causes people to leave a location
| War lack of freedom or safety hurricanes weather political situation jobs finance
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What are pull factors name some
Attracts people to a new location
| Weather political situation freedom safety jobs family sites school finance
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People who have been forced to leave and cannot return to their homes
Refugees
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Activities and behaviors in which people often engage
Cultural Traits
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An area in which people have many shared culture traits
Culture region
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A human population that shares a common culture or ancestry
Ethnic groups
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How does culture traits change
Through time
| Marriage age women education segregation values
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When an Individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture
Acculturation
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When immigrant groups Adopt all of the features of the main culture
Assimilation
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New ideas that a culture accepts
Innovation
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When an idea or innovation spreads from one person or group to another and is adopted
Diffusion
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Connections around the world increase and cultures become more alike
Globalization
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Opposite of globalization
Traditionalism
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Any movement in which people believe in strictly following certain established principles or teachings
Fundamentalism
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Focuses on one ethnic group
Ethnic religions
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People believe in the presence of spirits and forces of nature
Animist religions
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Belief in many gods
Polytheism
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Seek followers all over the world
Universalizing religions
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What happens in stage one
Both birthrates and death rates are high
Infant mortality rate is high
Typical of mainly agricultural countries
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What happens in stage two
Death rate begins to fall
Total population grow
Rapid growth of cities
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What happens in stage three
Both birthrates and death rates are low
Typical of economically advanced countries
Urban and industrial societies
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How is the rate of natural increase found
Birthrate minus deathrate
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These Religions focus on one ethnic group and generally have not spread into other cultures
Ethnic religions
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These religions seek followers all over the world
Universalizing religions
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These religions are based on monotheism
Universalizing religions
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People believe in the presence of spirits and forces of nature
Animist religions
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Hinduism is the largest religion of this type
Ethnic religions
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Polytheism is an essential part of most of these religions
Animist religions
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What does a missionary do
Helps to spread a religion
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Where are animist religions commonly found
Many traditional societies
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What is the goal of universalizing religions
To spread their beliefs to the entire world
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What makes up 80% of North America
Canada and United States
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Most major landforms in North America stretch from
North to south
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Islands along coastal Plains created by ocean waves and current depositing sand in shallow water
Barrier islands
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An area at or near the foot of the Mountain region
| Right next to it is lower elevation
Piedmont
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The boundary between the Piedmont and the coastal plain
Fall. Line
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Stretches from Alabama to southeastern Canada
Appalachian Mountains
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Which mountain ranges does the Appalachian Mountains include
Blue Ridge
Catskill
Green
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Created by collision of North America with Africa
Appalachian Mountains
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Between the Appalachian and the Rocky Mountains
Interior plains
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What does the interior plains contain
The Mississippi River basin (watershed)
thousands of lakes
Great Plains
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Stretch from New Mexico to Canada
Rocky Mountains
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Made up of several mountain ranges
Rocky Mountains
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A lower area of land generally surrounded by mountains
Basin
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Where is death Valley
In the great basin
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Where is the lowest point in North America
Death Valley
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What are the two major mountain systems
Sierra Nevada
| Cascades
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Tectonically active region around the edges of the Pacific
Ring of fire
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A place where magma builds
Hotspot
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Divides North America river systems into those flowing eastward and those flowing westward
Continental divide
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Events in the physical environment that can destroy human life and property
Natural hazards
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Small plants that consist of algae and fungi
Lichens
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The United States has 25% of the world what
Call reserves
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Where is the Appalachian Mountains
East
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Where is the piedmont
East
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Where is the Catskill Mountains
East
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Where is the Blue Ridge Mountains
East
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Where is the Mississippi River
Interior
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Where is the Great Plains
Interior
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Where is the Great Lakes
Interior
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Where is the Ozark Plateau
Interior
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Where is the Colorado River
West
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Where is death Valley
West
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Where is the Rocky Mountains
West
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Where is the Sierra Nevada
West
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It Piedmont is _____an region
Upland
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Where did many early settlements in the eastern part of United States form
Along the Fall line
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What is between the Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains
Interior plains
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Where does Sierra Nevada run along
California's eastern border
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Which continent has the most large lakes
North America
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The United States has every climate type but which one
Ice caps
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What are the four factors that influence the distribution of climates in the United States
Prevailing winds
Ocean currents
Highlands
middle latitude location
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Who reached the Americas about 500 years ago
The European explorers
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Who became the major influence on the United States
The British
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How many colonies did the British establish
13
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Which transportation was the colonist mainly the world
Water transportation
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What economy did the American colonies develop
Regional economies
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US federal system
Power divided between local state and national governments
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Ultimate power rests with who in US federal system
The people
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What is the Northeasts main economic development
Industrializing
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What is the South's main economic development
Plantations
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Plantations
Large farms that produce one major crop
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World War I
Started in 1910s
We were in 1917–1918
Changed the ways wars were fought
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Great Depression
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1930s
The stock market was new to people
do not know how to do it
They thought it would always go up
They never thought it would go down
There is also a drought and the Dustbowl
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World War II
Started late 1930s
| We entered in 1941 to 1945
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US superpower
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Around 1945
We won a huge war
Large military
Atomic bomb
Great economics and political stance
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Cold War
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Indirect war with Soviet Union
1930s to 1991
Political difference stopped alliance
Allies fought allies
Ends as Soviet Union fell apart
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Modern times
More diversity
| More people coming into power
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Bilingual
Able to speak two languages
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Where is the population Concentrated
Northeast
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What is an important factor in the development of the US economy
Education
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Smallest and most densely populated region
Northeast
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A group of cities that have grown into one large area
Megalopolis
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Name five cities that are megalopolises
Boston New York City Philadelphia Baltimore Washington DC
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Political and financial center
Northeast
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Most industrialized region
Northeast
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A city and its surrounding built-up areas
Metropolitan
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Major farming region
Midwest
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Fit for growing crops
Arable
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Cornbelt
Midwest
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Cornbelt states
Ohio Illinois Indiana Missouri
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Dairy belt
Midwest
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Dairy belt states
Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota
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Largest city in Midwest
Chicago
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Twin Cities
Minneapolis and St. Paul
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Industries based on raw materials
South
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New industries high-tech and aerospace
South
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Tourism and retirement
South
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Largest metropolitan area in the south
Dallas-Fort Worth
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Largest and most sparsely populated region
West
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We belt
Interior West
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Livestock
Interior West
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Pacific states
Silicon Valley tech capital
| Natural resources and tourism
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Silicon Valley
Tech capital
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A huge powerful country
Superpower
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Trade deficit
When the value of its exports is less than the value of its imports
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North American Free Trade Agreement
Agreement signed by North American countries eliminating tariffs encouraging trading
