World Geo 1
What are highlands?
This is the line of the highest points in the Rockies that marks the separation between rivers flowing eastward and westward.
What is the continental divide?
part of a chain of mountain ranges on the South American continent that run down the Pacific coast of North, Central, and South America
What are the Andes Mountains?
These gently sloping mountains extend some 1,600 miles from Newfoundland to Alabama.
Continuing immigration is a recurring theme in the history of the United States; so is this- movement of peoples within a country.
What is migration?
This includes such things as sewers. transportation, electricity, and housing.
This river in South America flows about 4,000 miles from west to east, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
What are metropolitan areas?
The first inhabitants of present-day United States and Canada migrated probably from Asia over this, a land bridge that once connected what are now Siberia and Alaska.
What is Beringia?
In the Mediterranean region, this is a cold, dry wind from the north.
What is a mistral?
These refer to places where various cultures cross paths.
What are cultural crossroads?
What is feudalism.
What is a polder?
These refer to corporations that engage in business worldwide.
What are multinationals?
In the Saint Lawrence Seaway, ships are raised and lowered some 600 feet by a series of these, sections of a waterway with closed gates where water levels are raised and lowered.
What are locks?
structures that are used to control the sea's destructive impact on human life
What are seaworks?
This term refers to when people place loyalty to the region above loyalty to the nation.
What is sectionalism?
In this type of economy, industries produce goods that consumers want to buy.
What is a market economy?
Both of these are at work in moving peasants and farmers off the land and drawing them to the cities.
What are push and pull factors?
This is an economic system in which private individuals own most of the resources, technology, and business and can operate them for profit with little control from the government.
What is free enterprise?
Found in England, a representaive law-making body whose members are elected or appointed.
What is a parliament?
Some areas of northern Canada and Alaska permanently frozen ground called this.
What is permafrost?
Ancient Rome had this type of government in which citizens elect representatives to rule in their name.
What is a republic or representative democracy?
What is the Zuider Zee?
countries dominated by another nation
What are satellite nations?
process of a region breaking up into small, mutually hostile units
What is balkanization?
section of Scotland that has many high-tech companies
What is Silicon Glen?
Term refering to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
What is Benelux?
1,500-mile river that flows mainly through Venezuale
What is the Orinoco River?