Chapter 1 Region: United States and Canada

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Chapter 1 Region United States and Canada
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Geography the study of earths physical features
and the living things which inhabit it.

• Geographers 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 used)

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Absolute Location the exact location (spot) in
which a place is found on earth.
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Grid System Longitude and Latitude
Hemispheres two halves - Equator (0 degrees) -
Prime Meridian (0 degrees)
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• Region area united by specific factor.

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Maps
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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)

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Natural Gas
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Coal Reserves
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Athabasca Oil Sands
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Peak Oil the maximum of oil production/extraction
is reached.
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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.

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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.

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Megalopolis Chain of metropolitan areas which
share a similar infrastructure.
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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

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Rust belt
Retooling Adapt an industrial facility to
produce a new product.
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Politics

• U.S.- Federalism, Republic
• Canada- Parliamentary Democracy, limited power to
  13 provinces.

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