Physical Geography and Environmental Issues
Artic biome with a short growing season in which vegetation is limited to low shrubs, grasses, and flowering herbs
What is a tundra?
The large urban region formed as multiple cities grow and merge with one another
What is Megalopolis?
A culturally distinctive settlement in a well-defined geographic areas
What is cultural homeland?
An agreement made in 1994 among Canada, the United States, and Mexico that established a 15-year plan for reducing all barriers to trade among the three countries
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
The practice of large-scale, often corporate farming in which business enterprises control closely integrated segments of food production
What is agribusiness?
An effect in built-up areas in which development associated with cities often produces nighttime temperatures
What is urban heat island?
A process of urban revitalization in which higher income residents displace lower-income residents in central-city neighborhoods.
What is gentrification?
What is Spanglish?
A country in which the major territorial subdivisions have significant degree of political autonomy.
What is Federal State?
A term often used to describe gender differences in salary, working conditions, or political power
What is gender gap?
North Americans consume huge amounts of what
What is water?
Before this year, high birth rates produced large families, and large numbers of new immigrants arrived in the region
What is 1900?
North America has became a region of what?
What is immigrants?
What is the 1960s?
Together with Europe and East Asia, North America is a key player in what?
What is the global economy?
In the United States and Canada, there is environmental initiatives to improve what?
What is local and regional problems?
By 1990, more than half of the US population lived west of this river
What is the Mississippi River?
Native people are also strongly tied to their what?
What is their homelands?
Which war redefined the United States role in world affairs?
What is World War II?
What are key concerns for a region of graying baby boomers?
What is aging and other health care issues?
North American continues to experience the accelerating impacts of what
What is climate change?
North American cities are characterized by what?
What is urban decentralization?
What presents challenges for North Americans?
What is globalization?
North American is home to how many of the world's largest states?
What is two?
What does North America possess?
What is the most powerful economy and wealthiest population?