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Chapter 3-5 Flashcards

1
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Acid Rain

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industrial produced sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (factories and cars)

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Megalopolis

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largest settlement cluster in a country

US - (D.C, Baltimore, Phily, NY, Boston)

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3
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Ogallala Aquifer

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Midwest aquifer (Nebraska to Texas)

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Counter-Urbanization

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People leave cities to move to smaller towns and rural areas

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Urban Decentralization

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Metropolitan areas spread in all directions and suburbs take on many characteristics of downtowns

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Concentric Zone Model

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urban land areas neatly organized in rings around business districts

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Gentrification

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Displacement of lower-income residents of communities with neighborhoods with higher income residents

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Cultural Assimilation

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Process in which immigrants were absorbed by larger host society

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Canada Population (# of people)

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35 million

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10
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Megacities (examples)

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Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro

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Latin America (Landscape)

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  • Home to largest rain forest, river by volume

- Large reserves of natural gas, oil and copper

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12
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Grassification

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Conversion of tropical forest into pasture

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13
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Subsidence

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Soil sinkage (Mexico City)

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14
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El Nino

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Warm Pacific current arrives along cold costal waters of Ecuador and Peru, brings floods and drought

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15
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Urban Primacy

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Condition which country has primate city 3-4 times larger than any other city in the country

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16
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Squatter Settlements

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Urban poor reside here (usually outside major cities)

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17
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Latifundia

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Practice of maintaining large estates

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18
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Minifundia

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Peasants farm small plots for their subsistence

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19
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Agrarian Reform

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Peasant demanding land redistribution

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Mestizo

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Mixed person (European and Indian)

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21
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Remittances

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Money sent back home (from immigrants)

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22
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Virgin of Guadalupe

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Patron saint of Mexico

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23
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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Portuguese come to America

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Pope (dividing between Portugal and Spain)

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African continent (eastern half of Atlantic) to Portugal
Western Half (Americas) to Spain
25
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Supranational Organization

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Governing bodies that include several states

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Subnational Organizations

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Groups that represent areas of people within a state

27
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Neoliberalism

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Policy reforms that emphasized increased trade, privatization and reduced government spending

28
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Maquiladoras

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Mexican assembly plants that line boarder with U.S

29
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Dependency Theory

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Expansion of Europe capitalism created the regions underdevelopment

30
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Dollarization

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Process by which a country adopts in whole or part the U.S dollar

31
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Rimland

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Coastal zone of the mainland beginning with Belize

32
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Greater Antilles

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Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico

33
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Lesser Antilles

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Small islands form Virgin Islands to Trinidad

34
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Caribbean Diaspora

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Economic flight of Caribbean people across the globe

35
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Creolization

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Mix of European and African cultures

36
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Mono-crop Production

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A single commodity like sugar

37
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Indentured Labor

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Workers contracted to labor on estates for a set period of time

38
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African Diaspora

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Forced removal of Africans form native area

39
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Diaspora

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Mass movement of people

40
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Maroons

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Communities of runaway slaves

41
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Voodoo

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Most practiced religion - Haiti

42
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Music in Caribbean

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Reggae, Calypso, Merengue, Rumba

43
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Monroe Doctrine

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U.S would not tolerate European military involvement

- Caribbean in U.S sphere of influence

44
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Country leading Caribbean from agrarian economy to industrial

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Puerto Rico

45
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Operation Bootstrap

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tax incentives and cheap labor brought U.S textile and clothing firms to relocate in Puerto Rico

46
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Brain Drain

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Training professionals for benefit of developed countries

47
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US Clean Water Act and Canada Green Plan

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tries to limit pollution in water

48
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Central American Free Trade

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Evidence of heightened economic integration in the western hemisphere

49
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Mercosur

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Revived trade bloc concept

50
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Organization of American States

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Inter-continental for the purpose of regional solidarity and cooperation amongst member states

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Syncretic Religions

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Blends of different belief systems

52
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Outsourcing

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Business practice that transfers portions of a company’s production and service activities to lower-cost settings, often located overseas

53
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Sectoral Transformation

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Evolution of a nations labor force from one dependent on the primary sector to one with more employment in the secondary

54
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Unitary State

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States in which power is centralized at the national level

55
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World Trade Organization

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153 members are dedicated to reducing global barriers to trade

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Brain Gain

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Return migration of Caribbean people from North America and Europe

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Capital Leakage

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Gap between gross income and total tourist dollars

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Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)

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Proposed a regional industrialization plan and created the Caribbean Development Bank to assist poor states

59
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Isolated Proximity

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Caribbean people are poor and live in the shadow of North America’s wealth - unique location in the world

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