Vocab

1. Cultural pluralism of North America: This is a diversity ranging from ancestral to traditional backgrounds, and these two population groups practice different cultures live adjacent to each other in a separate state. Canada for example has two official languages, English and French coexisting in one nation, along with a Asia sector. While the United States does not have an official language, and reelects many ethnics, Hispanic, Asians, and African American. Diversity in Canada and United States is due to immigration and cross cultures.

2. Physiographic regions: Some of the main regions in North America is the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, and the Appalachians. North America is diversified by these physical features. The Pacific Mountains stretch from Southern California to Canada/Alaska, and the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico. The Great Lakes create a lowland, and the glaciers creating a fertile Great Plains. The Appalachian Mountains travel from Georgia to Nova Scotia. From the north to south the landforms change immensely changing resources and services.

3. Rain shadow effect: This effect begins along the west coast in Seattle and Portland as moisture arrives from the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Mountains and the Rockies push the moisture up, cooling it and making it rain. As the air mass moves across the land it is dry, producing little rain in the Great Plains. North America is then only humid as you get closer to the Gulf of Mexico. Many of the air masses collect moisture as they travel over the Great Lakes. Because of the lack of rain in the central United States we see the population high on the west and east coast.

4. First Nations: This is another name for Indians or Native Americans, becaus...

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.... The South still today contains some of the poorest cities, and the catastrophic devastation from hurricanes hurt the economy.

19. Postindustrial complexes and technopoles: Technopoles are state of the art high technology centers, and one of the leading technopoles is the Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston-San Antonio triangle. It has became the most productive postindustrial complexes with many technopoles. Austin is the heart of this complex, and international trade is booming from the region, and NAFTA is the anchor in the region.

20. Pacific Rim and North America: This term consists of the western edge of the U.S., coastal China, east and south Asia, Australia, Chile, and Japan, otherwise is the discontinuous regions surrounding the Pacific Ocean. This region relies on each other for importing and exporting, and their economies created unprecedented opportunities.