North America - Adam Payne Exam 1

5 themes of geography

Movement

Religion

Human

Environment interaction

Location

Place

3 types of movement of people

migration

immigration (In)

emigration (Exit)

3 types of movement

people, goods, and ideas

relocation diffusion

the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

expansion diffusion

hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus diffusion

formal region

An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics

Functional Region

An area organized around a node or focal point

vernacular region

A popular region that is named for the way people perceive it

types of location

absolute location

relative location

absolute location

Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates

relative location

The position of a place in relation to another place

place

A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

North America has _ different environmental regions

7

Costal Europe and Africa

1500-1820

Push: freedom of religion

Pull: Wealth

Destination: Coastal America

Northwest Europe (Irish and German)

1820-1890

Push: famine/political problems

Pull: Job/Land

Destination: Rural areas

South and East Europe (Italians and Jews)

1890-1920

Push: political problems

Pull: Jobs (wealth)

Destination: Northeast/Urban areas

Mexican immigration

1920-1980

Push: N/A

Pull: N/A (jobs)

Destination: South (Texas)

Latin Argentina and Asia

Push: Cultural & Military conflict

Pull: reunification/better life.

Destination: large cities & E/W Coast.

What are British influences?

Roads and house boundaries.

English Language.

What percentage of the NA population lives in urban areas?

85%

Canada is made of

Providences and territories

The US trades with _ more than any other country

Canada

Canada's Core

represents only 2.5% of their land. 50% of people live there, 40% agriculture is there, and 75% economic outlets.

Quebec is separated from Canada by the

St Lawrence river

Quebec created the types of property

Long Lots

Canada's two largest cities

Montreal & Quebec.

Canada's agriculture involves

lumber, mines, aspestos, (hydro electric power)

What is the largest territory in Canada? and Who lives there?

Nunanut and the Inuit

1987 is when the _ was proposed and three years later (1990) failed.

Meech Lake Accord

Example of a vernacular region

The Midwest

14% of the world's land mass comes from

North America

3rd largest hydroelectric power producer

Quebec

Glaciers created this million of years ago

interior lowlands

how many languages were in America by 1942

2,200

Canada is mostly made up by

Ontario and Quebec