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| Borderland | show 🗑
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| show | A region within which there prevails substantial natural-landscape homogeneity, expressed by a certain degree of uniformity in surface relief, climate, vegetation, and soils.
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| Fossil fuel | show 🗑
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| show | The relative dryness in areas downwind of mountain ranges resulting from orographic precipitation, wherein moist air masses are forced to deposit most of their water content as they cross the highlands.
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| American manufacturing belt | show 🗑
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| show | The non-central-city portion of the American metropolis; no longer “sub” to the “urb,” this outer ring was transformed into a full-fledged city during the late twentieth century.
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| show | companies relocate manufacturing jobs to other places with cheaper labor, other place converts to a service economy while struggling with the accompanying effects of increased unemployment and meeting the retraining needs of its workforce.
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| show | The popular name given to the southern tier of the United States, which is anchored by the mega-States of California, Texas, and Florida. Its warmer climate, superior recreational opportunities, and other amenities have been attracting large numbers of re
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| Melting pot | show 🗑
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| show | Name given Canada’s indigenous peoples of American descent, whose U.S. counterparts are called Native Americans.
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| show | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
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| show | A 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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