Vocab 3

Question 1

Acid Rain

Answer 1

Harmful form of precipitation high in sulfur and nitrogen oxides; originates in industrial regions, but falls wherever the wind blows

Question 2

Concentric Zone Model

Answer 2

Urban land use that shows a well-developedcentral business district (CBD) surrounded by rings of residences, with higher income groups living on the urban periphery

Question 3

Cultural Assimilation

Answer 3

The process in whic Immigrans are culturally absorbed into the larger host society

Question 4

Ethnicity

Answer 4

A shared cultural identity held by a group of people with a common background or history, often as a miniority group within a larger society

Question 5

Federal States

Answer 5

Political system in which a significant amount of power is given to individual states

Question 6

Megalopolis

Answer 6

Large urban region formed as multiple cities grow and merge with one another

Question 7

Nonmetropolitan growth

Answer 7

Movement of people from cities to smaller towns and rural areas

Question 8

Outsourcing

Answer 8

The external purchas eof services rather than production in house; call centers in India

Question 9

Postindustrial economy

Answer 9

The state of an evolving economy wherein traditional manufacturing activity has given way to the growth of high tech industry and an employment emphasis on services, governmnet and management information systems

Question 10

Renewable energy resources

Answer 10

Energy sources that are replenished by nature, including solar, wind, hydrowpower and geothermal energy

Question 11

Sectoral transformation

Answer 11

The evolution of a labor force from being highly dependent on the primary (extraction and agriculture) sector to being oriented around more employment in the secondary, tertiary, and quaternary sections

Question 12

Sustainable Agriculture

Answer 12

Environmentally friendly farming that uses organic farming principles, limited use of chemicals, integrated crop and livestock management

Question 13

Tundra

Answer 13

A mixture of low shrubs, grasses, and flowering herbs that grow in the short growing seasons of the high latitudes

Question 14

Urban decentralization

Answer 14

Settlement patters in which metropolitan areas sprawl in all directions and suburbs take on many of the characteristics of traditional downtowns

Question 15

Urban realms model

Answer 15

Simplified description of urban land use, featuring a number of dispersed, peripheral centers of dynamic commerical and industrial activity linked by sophisticated urban transportation networks