Tour of North America
This region is known for its role in early American history, coastal landscapes, and a blend of Puritan and liberal culture.
What is New England
The basic facilities, services, and machinery—like roads, bridges, and power plants—needed for a community to function.
What is Infrastructure
The general term for the movement of people from one place to another.
Question: What is Migration?
The popularity of sushi, a Japanese dish, in cities all across the United States is a simple example of this.
What is Cultural Diffusion
This type of government is led by a Prime Minister who is chosen by elected representatives, not directly by the people.
What is a Parliamentary Government?
A hub for agriculture and manufacturing, this region features a mix of large cities and rural communities with flat farmland.
What is the Midwest
The process of people moving from city centers to live on the outskirts, in areas called suburbs.
What is Suburbanization
These are goods that are produced in one country and sold to another country.
What are Exports
The movement and spread of ideas, goods, and culture from one place to another.
A system of government, like in Canada, where the legislative and executive functions are combined and representatives choose the prime minister.
What is the Parliamentary Government
Known for its hospitality, humid climate, and "Bible Belt," this region has landscapes from mountains to bayous.
What is the South
The process of building up big cities to entice more people to move there.
What is Urbanization
This term describes a company or organization that involves or operates in several different countries.
What is Multinational
The process where two distinct cultures become more similar over time due to increased interaction, leading to a blending of ideas and practices.
Cultural Convergence
If a nation's largest companies are in finance, healthcare, and software development, it has this type of economy.
What is a Post-Industrial Economy?
The largest and most diverse U.S. region, it contains everything from the Great Plains to vast deserts and mountain ranges.
What is the West
This happens when poorly planned development spreads a city’s population over a wider and wider area.
What is Urban Sprawl
The historic trading of plants, animals, diseases, and culture between the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) and the New World (the Americas).
What is the Columbian Exchange
If two bordering countries with different languages establish open borders and free trade, this process of cultural blending is likely to happen over several generations.
What is Cultural Convergence
An economy where jobs in tech, finance, and healthcare have become more common than traditional manufacturing or factory work.
What is the Post-Industrial Economy
These are the 10 political units in Canada that are similar to states in the USA.
What are the Provinces
A region where several large cities and their surrounding areas have grown together, like the area from Boston to Washington D.C.
What is Megalopolis
When a smartphone is designed in the U.S., its parts are made in South Korea, and it's assembled in China, its creation is a result of this type of business operation.
What is Multinational?
One term describes the one-way spread of an idea, while the other describes a two-way blending of cultures.
What is the difference between Convergence and Diffusion
An economy where jobs were based on manufacturing.
Industrial Economy