1. Unit #3
VOCABULARY

2. Region: An area with common characteristics that are different from those of surrounding areas

3. Formal Region: A region with one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas. Usually has a distinct boundary.
Functional Region: A region that contain interactions and/or connections between places.
Perceptual Region: A region that definitely exists, but has characteristics and/or boundaries that are not agreed upon.

4. Cultural Influence: The power of one culture to affect the way another culture develops
Infrastructure – The basic support systems needed to keep an economy going.
Examples – power, transportation, water, sanitation, & education

5. Push-Pull Factors Push Factors – Reasons to leave a place
Events or reasons that cause people to leave their homeland and migrate to another region or place.
Push Factors – Reasons to leave a place
Pull Factors – Reasons to come to a place

6. Internal Migration: movement of people within a country
Urbanization: movement of people to cities and urban areas

7. Metropolitan Area: a large city and its surrounding suburbs
Megalopolis: a group of large cities that has merged into one continuous urban area

8. Immigration: the movement of people from one country to another.
Ethnic Group: A specific group that shares a common language, customs, and heritage

9. Illegal Immigrant: someone who has entered a country illegally
Guest Worker: a person with permission to work in another country

10. Natural Hazards: Extreme/Dangerous weather and/or other conditions caused by nature.
Tectonic Hazards: Extreme/Dangerous conditions caused by tectonic/earth movement.

11. Hurricane: A severe tropical storm in the Northern Hemisphere rotating clockwise, usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 73 miles per hour or more.
Tsunami: A great sea wave produced by underwater earth movements or volcanic eruption.

12. Province: similar to a state
Prime Minister: head of the government; usually the leader of the majority party
Parliament: a legislature; similar to Congress

13. Import: goods or services brought in from a foreign country
Export: goods or services sold to a foreign country
Bilingual: Countries where two major languages are spoken

14. Market Economy:
An economic system where production, distribution, and price are largely determined by the market (supply and demand)
Also known as: Free Enterprise, Free Market, or Capitalism