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Chapter 1 Region: United States and Canada
Geography: the study of earth’s physical features and the living things which inhabit it. • Geographer’s must consider:
• 1. The world in spatial terms (location) • 2. Regions • 3. Physical Systems • 4. Human Systems • 5. Environment and Society (interrelationship)
• 6. Uses of geography (how the information and data is attained and
Absolute Location: the exact location (spot) in which a place is found on earth.
Grid System: Longitude and Latitude
Hemispheres: two halves - Equator (0 degrees) - Prime Meridian (0 degrees)
• Region: area united by specific factor.
Maps
U.S. and Canada: 12% of land • Advantages: • Fresh Water Supply • Fuels: Natural Gas, Oil, and Coal • Minerals: Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, and Nickel
• Vast Forests- Timber (50% has been cut down)
• Ocean Access- Fisheries (not landlocked)
Natural Gas
Coal Reserves
Athabasca Oil Sands
Peak Oil: the maximum of oil production/extraction is reached.
Immigration • Due to the physical divide caused by the Atlantic and Pacific, the Native populations were relatively small.
• Current populations are primarily based off of immigrant populations.
• less than .9% in the U.S. and 2% in Canada is native.
Population Distribution
• Canada: • Most of the Canadian population is along the U.S. and Canadian Border
• U.S.: • Sunbelt: the southwest growth boom due to...? • Coastal Populations: East, West, and Southern Gulf
• Megalopolis: chain of metropolitan areas which share a similar infrastructure.
Megalopolis: Chain of metropolitan areas which share a similar infrastructure.
Economics • Both are mixed markets • post-industrial: most of their economic activities are no longer manufacturing, but based in service industries.
• Created the Rustbelt and retooling.
• agriculture: most crops are grown as
commodities, and not for sustenance.
• Cornbelt: Ohio through Nebraska
Rust belt
Retooling: Adapt an industrial facility to produce a new product.
Politics • U.S.- Federalism, Republic • Canada- Parliamentary Democracy, limited power to 13 provinces.
