Chapter 6 - Cultural Geography of the US

What is the definition for migration?

• I do not know the definition.

• the movement of people with in a country.

• the grading of papers.

What is the definition for frontier?

• the free, open land in American West that was available for settlement.

• the wild Wild West

• I do not know the answer.

What is the definition for Columbian Exchange

• I do not know the answer

• the movement of plants, animals and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres during the age of exploration.

• the name of Christopher Columbus' ship.

What is the definition for representative democracy?

• the land in Europe.

• a government in which the people rule through elected representatives.

• I do not know the answer.

What is the definition for suburb?

• political unit or community touching the borders of the central city or touching other suburbs that touch the city.

• I do not know the answer.

• a small country.

What is the definition for Louisiana Purchase?

• the territory including the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, that the United States purchased from France in 1803.

• currency in France

• I do not know the answer.

What is the definition for megalopolis

• I do not know the answer.

• a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together.

• a mega store

What is the definition for export?

• accepting imports

• a product or good that is sold from one economy to another.

• I do not know the answer.

What is the definition for New England?

• the South

• I do not know the answer.

• the six northern state in the Northeast United States - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

What is the definition for postindustrial economy?

• an economic phase in which manufacturing no longer plays a dominant role.

• I do not know the answer.

• New England