Tour of North America
City Life
Going Global
It's a Culture Thing
Big Ideas
100

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

100

The basic facilities, services, and machinery—like roads, bridges, and power plants—needed for a community to function.

What is Infrastructure

100

The general term for the movement of people from one place to another.

Question: What is Migration?

100

The popularity of sushi, a Japanese dish, in cities all across the United States is a simple example of this.

What is Cultural Diffusion

100

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?

200

A hub for agriculture and manufacturing, this region features a mix of large cities and rural communities with flat farmland.

What is the Midwest

200

The process of people moving from city centers to live on the outskirts, in areas called suburbs.

What is Suburbanization

200

These are goods that are produced in one country and sold to another country.

What are Exports

200

The movement and spread of ideas, goods, and culture from one place to another.

What is Cultural Diffusion
200

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

300

Known for its hospitality, humid climate, and "Bible Belt," this region has landscapes from mountains to bayous.

What is the South

300

The process of building up big cities to entice more people to move there.

What is Urbanization

300

This term describes a company or organization that involves or operates in several different countries.

What is Multinational

300

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

300

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?

400

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

400

This happens when poorly planned development spreads a city’s population over a wider and wider area.

What is Urban Sprawl

400

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

400

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

400

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

500

These are the 10 political units in Canada that are similar to states in the USA.

What are the Provinces

500

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

500

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?

500

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

500

An economy where jobs were based on manufacturing.

Industrial Economy

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