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Acid Rain

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industrial produced sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (factories and cars)

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Megalopolis

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largest settlement cluster in a country

US - (D.C, Baltimore, Phily, NY, Boston)

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Ogallala Aquifer

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Midwest aquifer (Nebraska to Texas)

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Counter-Urbanization

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People leave cities to move to smaller towns and rural areas

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Urban Decentralization

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Metropolitan areas spread in all directions and suburbs take on many characteristics of downtowns

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Concentric Zone Model

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urban land areas neatly organized in rings around business districts

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Gentrification

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Displacement of lower-income residents of communities with neighborhoods with higher income residents

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Cultural Assimilation

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Process in which immigrants were absorbed by larger host society

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Canada Population (# of people)

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35 million

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Megacities (examples)

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Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro

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Latin America (Landscape)

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  • Home to largest rain forest, river by volume

- Large reserves of natural gas, oil and copper

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Grassification

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Conversion of tropical forest into pasture

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Subsidence

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Soil sinkage (Mexico City)

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El Nino

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Warm Pacific current arrives along cold costal waters of Ecuador and Peru, brings floods and drought

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Urban Primacy

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Condition which country has primate city 3-4 times larger than any other city in the country

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Squatter Settlements

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Urban poor reside here (usually outside major cities)

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Latifundia

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Practice of maintaining large estates

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Minifundia

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Peasants farm small plots for their subsistence

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Agrarian Reform

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Peasant demanding land redistribution

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Mestizo

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Mixed person (European and Indian)

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Remittances

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Money sent back home (from immigrants)

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Virgin of Guadalupe

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Patron saint of Mexico

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Portuguese come to America

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Pope (dividing between Portugal and Spain)

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African continent (eastern half of Atlantic) to Portugal
Western Half (Americas) to Spain
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Supranational Organization
Governing bodies that include several states
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Subnational Organizations
Groups that represent areas of people within a state
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Neoliberalism
Policy reforms that emphasized increased trade, privatization and reduced government spending
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Maquiladoras
Mexican assembly plants that line boarder with U.S
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Dependency Theory
Expansion of Europe capitalism created the regions underdevelopment
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Dollarization
Process by which a country adopts in whole or part the U.S dollar
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Rimland
Coastal zone of the mainland beginning with Belize
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Greater Antilles
Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico
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Lesser Antilles
Small islands form Virgin Islands to Trinidad
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Caribbean Diaspora
Economic flight of Caribbean people across the globe
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Creolization
Mix of European and African cultures
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Mono-crop Production
A single commodity like sugar
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Indentured Labor
Workers contracted to labor on estates for a set period of time
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African Diaspora
Forced removal of Africans form native area
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Diaspora
Mass movement of people
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Maroons
Communities of runaway slaves
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Voodoo
Most practiced religion - Haiti
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Music in Caribbean
Reggae, Calypso, Merengue, Rumba
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Monroe Doctrine
U.S would not tolerate European military involvement | - Caribbean in U.S sphere of influence
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Country leading Caribbean from agrarian economy to industrial
Puerto Rico
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Operation Bootstrap
tax incentives and cheap labor brought U.S textile and clothing firms to relocate in Puerto Rico
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Brain Drain
Training professionals for benefit of developed countries
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US Clean Water Act and Canada Green Plan
tries to limit pollution in water
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Central American Free Trade
Evidence of heightened economic integration in the western hemisphere
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Mercosur
Revived trade bloc concept
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Organization of American States
Inter-continental for the purpose of regional solidarity and cooperation amongst member states
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Syncretic Religions
Blends of different belief systems
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Outsourcing
Business practice that transfers portions of a company's production and service activities to lower-cost settings, often located overseas
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Sectoral Transformation
Evolution of a nations labor force from one dependent on the primary sector to one with more employment in the secondary
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Unitary State
States in which power is centralized at the national level
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World Trade Organization
153 members are dedicated to reducing global barriers to trade
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Brain Gain
Return migration of Caribbean people from North America and Europe
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Capital Leakage
Gap between gross income and total tourist dollars
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Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
Proposed a regional industrialization plan and created the Caribbean Development Bank to assist poor states
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Isolated Proximity
Caribbean people are poor and live in the shadow of North America's wealth - unique location in the world

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