Region
DFW is an example of this type of region.
Functional region.
The process of adopting or joining into a more dominant culture.
Acculturation
This mountain range covers much of the western United States and even goes into Canada.
Rocky Mountains
Much of the Canadian Shield and Scandinavia in Europe was carved by these over thousands of years.
Glaciers
While Australia experiences fall, the United States experiences this season.
Spring
What is a functional region?
Area that consists of a major city and lots of smaller towns
What is desertification?
The process of fertile lands become deserts because of droughts and not proper agriculture.
What mountain range surrounds the country of Switzerland?
The Alps
80-90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of this border.
United States/Canada Border
This trade agreement allows free trade between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
NAFTA
What is a formal region?
Created on the basis of at least one or more of the following characteristics: common language.
What is lithosphere?
The crust or upper layer of the Earth.
What major body of water makes much of Southern Europe warmer despite how far north it is?
Mediterranean Sea
This province, inhabited by the Inuit, is Canada's newest, created in 1999.
Nunavut
The pope divided South America Between Portugal and Spain in this treaty.
Treaty of Tordesillas
What is a perceptual region?
Based on the shared feelings and attitudes of the people who live in the area.
What is monotheistic?
Belief that there is only one God.
This mountain range divides the borders of Spain and France.
Pyrenees Mountains
The United State's CIA changed many South American Government Types to this in the 1960S-1980S
Dictatorships
European's are the largest growing groups of this Denomination.
Atheism
What is an example of perceptual region?
Midwest in the United States.
What is dialect?
A particular form of a language which is particular to a region.
The Pan-American highway travels along much of this mountain range in South America.
The Andes
The process of a powerful country exploiting a less powerful country, usually for resources.
Imperialism
Puritans came over from England and brought this religion over to New England Colonies.
Protestantism