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1
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What is a number of frost free days for growing crops is called?

A

Growing season

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What is selective breeding?

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Keeping seed or stock that is better and getting rid of that which is not as beneficial for good production.

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What is cash cropping?

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Growing food for the business of selling it

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What is industrialization?

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Adaptation of technology

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What is subsistence farming?

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Growing crops and raising livestock to meet immediate needs for families,

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What is a word used to describe agricultural activity which focuses on small amounts if land, large capital and labour investments and bigger returns per hectare

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Intensive farming

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Describe Toxic alley

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Poisonous waste, chemicals leech into underground streams, 22 thousand tons of toxic chemicals, 43 toxic hotspots.

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Why did the family of love canal make the news?

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The kids were eating berries by the waste and contracted tumors or arthritis.
9 out of 15 houses experienced a cancer related death

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What are the effect of Dioxin exposure?

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Messed with our hormones, birth defects.

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The only significant source of water in the southwest comes from where?

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The Colorado river

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What seven states share the water from the Colorado river?

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New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.

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How does the government decide were water should go?

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Where the most jobs or people are

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Who was Jane Jacobs?

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An author who wrote the death and life of great American cities.

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What are the three D’s (Naheed Nenshi)

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Density, diversity and discovery.

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What are “the healthiest cities”

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The ones that are in a constant state of flux.

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In London, what did workers come across when digging?

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Roman roofing tiles

17
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Why did people move into cities in the 18th century?

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The industrial revolution

18
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When did London’s initial construction of underground mass transit begin and what two cities followed suit?

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1858.

New York and Paris.

19
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Who were the first people to move water in a systematic way?

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Romans with their aqueducts.

20
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What significant sewer tech developed in mid 19th century?

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The flush toilet.

21
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What are natural/organic cities?

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Cities set up by trade spots and sprawls.

22
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What are planned cities?

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Built by people with arterial motives

23
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What is teotihuacan?

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A city just outside Mexico City. A planned metropolis, built on the apparent center of the universe and was estimated to be built 500 A.D and estimated to have hold 125 million

24
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What are some noteworthy things about Portland?

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Teared up a freeway through city center, made parks out of parking lots, affordable houses on riverside, and is the most livable city.

25
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What are a few things about Brasilia?

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Built in five years in the shape of a jet plane, no neighborhoods or street names, you have to travel by car and has the highest pedestrian death rates in the world.

26
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What are low order goods?

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Stuff like candy, milk, newspapers and lottery tickets. Trivial things.

27
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What are middle order goods?

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Clothing, calculators.

28
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What is infrastructure?

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A system of public works such as school and libraries.

29
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What is a hinterland?

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Areas around a town that trade with them.

30
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What is a threshold population?

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The minimum number of customers requires for an urban service to exist

31
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What is cultural diffusion?

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The outward spread of knowledge and influence from a large center.

32
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What is a diversified city?

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A town with many economic bases

33
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What is economic bases?

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Functions and activities on which a city depends on for existence.

34
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What is conventional energy?

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Oil, natural gas, coal, hydro and nuclear electricity

35
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What is alternative energy?

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Wind, Solar, Biomass energy

36
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What is a basic industry?

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Industry that sells it’s products and services outside the community and bringing money inside.

37
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What is the CBD?

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The central business district, area of town where the most important commercial and government business takes place.

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