Europe
This historic event caused the greatest change to the settlement patterns in much of Europe.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This explains why Spanish is is spoken in Central and Latin South America today.
What are the effects of the Spanish Empire?
Farming method that made cultivation of crops in hilly or mountainous regions possible. Adaptation to physical geography.
What is terrace farming?
What is Canada?
Where all living organisms interact on Earth.
What is biosphere?
Majority of European settlements are small or medium-sized towns.
What are the population settlements in Europe?
Gold drove them to colonizing modern day Peru
Who are Spanish Explorers.
When citizens hold political power either directly or through elected representatives.
What is democracy?
Job opportunities, political freedom, access to education, promise of a better life, religious freedom
What are pull factors?
What is a functional region?
Created a large united trade zone across Europe.
What is the European Union?
During this event in history, the new world was exposed to cattle horses, and sugar.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Contact between different people during the period of Colonization.
What is the Columbian Exchange
What are agricultural cooperatives?
This process created landforms like mountains, rift valleys, and ocean trenches.
What are plate tectonics?
The "infant stage" of the European Union.
What is the European Coal and Steel Community?
An artificial waterway that decreases shipping costs.
What is the Panama Canal?
An industry whose labor force consists of family units or individuals working at home with their own equipment.
What is a Cottage Industry?
Population concentrated in large urban centers.
What is the population distribution of Canada and the U.S.?
This economic activity is suited for an urban setting.
What is manufacturing?
This describes the demographic trends in Germany and Spain.
What are low birth rates?
Because of the exposure to this, indigenous people in Latin America are underrepresented in the overall population
What are diseases?
Practices which are passed from one generation to another generation.
This event has most directly contributed to the process of urbanization.
What is industrial growth?
If this is the main economic activity, we typically can predict that the country is less developed.
What is agriculture?