HGeog Unit 2 Vocab

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

• World city

• Manufacturing Belt

• Technopole

• Computer Central

General term for a linear zone that parallels a political boundary. The most dynamic of these areas, such as those lining the U.S.-Mexico border, are marked by significant cultural and economic interaction across the boundary that separates them.

• Borderland

• Transition zone

• Physiographic region

• Sunbelt

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

• Great Plains

• Canadian Shield

• Great Basin

• Boreal Forest

Sharing Economy

• The economy involves the exchange of labor for money between individuals or companies via digital platforms that actively facilitate matching between providers and customers

• The new, increasingly dominant, postindustrial economy that is maturing in the most highly advanced countries of North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. Here, traditional industry is being eclipsed by a higher-technology productive complex focused on information-related activities.

• 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.

• Process by which companies relocate manufacturing jobs to other regions or countries with cheaper labor, leaving the newly-deindustrialized region to convert to a service economy while struggling with the accompanying effects of increased unemployment and meeting the retraining needs of its workforce.

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

• Rocky Mountains

• Great Plains

• Sunbelt

• Rustbelt

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

• Visiting

• Migration

• Evolution

• Urbanization

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

• Information Economy

• Sharing Economy

• Gig Economy

• Imports and Exports

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

• Neighborhoods

• Migration

• Melting Pot

• Regionalization

First Nations

• Where human beings originated from

• A leading world power

• Great Britain

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

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

• Drones

• intermodal connections

• canal

• distribution center