HGeog Unit 2 Vocab

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Planned techno-industrial complex (such as California’s Silicon Valley) that innovates, promotes, and manufactures the products of the postindustrial information economy.

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Technopole

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General term for a linear zone that parallels a political boundary, marked by significant cultural and economic interaction across the boundary.

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Borderland

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The subarctic, mostly coniferous snowforest that blankets Canada south of the tundra that lines the Arctic shore; known as the taiga in Russia.

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Boreal Forest

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Sharing Economy

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A recent development in urban economies based on the digital revolution that allows for sharing of heretofore private resources ranging from cars and scooters to overnight accommodation, from work space to power tools.

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The region in the United States that stretches across the southern and south western portions of the country from Florida to California

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Sunbelt

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The movement of people from one place to another with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily

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Migration

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This type of economy involves the exchange of labour for money between individuals or companies via digital platforms that actively facilitate matching between providers and customers.

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Gig Economy

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Term that refers to traditional characterization of American society as a blend of numerous immigrant ethnic groups that over time were assimilated into a single societal mainstream

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Melting Pot

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First Nations

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Name given Canada’s indigenous peoples of American descent, whose U.S. counterparts are called Native Americans

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Facilities and activities related to the transfer of goods in transit from one transportation mode to another (trucks, railroads)

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intermodal connections