Vocabulary
Factors that encourage people to leave an area and move to another.
What are Push and pull factors?
The term used to describe people moving from rural to urban locations
What is urbanization?
An economical source of food shared by rural communities in both United States and Canada
What is farming?
The population of both the U.S.A. and Canada have a shared characteristic of being largely centered here.
What are urban areas?
A large amount of people at or below the poverty line often defines a country as this.
Developing
The meshing of two cultures not perfectly blended together but not being kept separate
What is Cultural Convergence?
The geographic factors that led to migration into Canada and the United States in the 17th century.
What is favorable land available to farming?
The shared vegetation region shared by the United States and Canada, often referred to as the 'bread basket'.
What are The Great Plains?
This invention hastened the expansion of westward growth and population
What are railroads?
Movement of people from one location to another
Migration
The spread of McDonalds to other countries is an example of what?
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The spread of Democratic government ideals to North America with the migration of colonists.
What is cultural convergence
A low infant mortality rate combined with low death rate and high GDP makes a country economically -
What is developed?
High amounts of economic opportunities often contribute to the development of this.
What is urbanization? What is a megalopolis?
This implies two cultural aspects come together and then retreat to their own respective cultural groups.
What is cultural divergence
The revolution surrounding the development of technology that led to the rise of cities and people moving to urban areas.
What is the industrial revolution?
Contributed to the settlement of the southern United States and increased it's population.
What is air conditioning?
The boundary that marks the border between the U.S.A. and Canada on a map is considered this type of region.
What is a formal region?
A high infant mortality rate, high death rate and low GDP define a country as this.
What is developing?
The economic system employed by the United States and Canada
The free enterprise system
A large or heavily populated urban location
What is a Megalopolis?
This is the direct impact of industrial growth on cities
What is urbanization?
The Great Plains forms this kind of region in both the United States and Canada
Informal region
This country is in stage 5 of the demographic transition model - where birthrate is lower than death rate.
What is Japan, Germany, Estonia, Ukraine
What is the GDP of a country?
All products finished within a country's physical borders within a set timeframe. The gross domestic product.