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| A locational characteristic that permits a place to be reached by the efforts of those at other places |
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| Atlantic Provinces (Canada) |
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| commonly,a transfer point on a transport route where he type of carrier changes and where large-volume shipments are reduced in size |
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| CBD (Central Business District) |
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| The vegetation that would exist in an area if growth had proceeded undisturbed for an extended period |
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| The place in which two streams flow together to form one larger stream |
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The type of climate found in the interior of major continents in the middle, or temperate, latitudes.
Great seasonal variation |
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| Continental Economic Core |
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| The portion of a country that contains its economic, political, intellectual, and cultural focus. |
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Deviation of one degree temperature for one day from an arbitrary standard
Usually long term averages |
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| The systematic analysis of population |
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| Broad lower course of a river that is encroached on by the sea and affected by the tides |
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The area farthest from a large urban place in which people working in the urban place live.
Beyond suburbia |
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The physiographic boarder between the piedmont and coastal plain regions.
Rapids and falls |
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| The mass of rock and finely ground material carried by a glacier, then deposited when the ice melts. |
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| The shortest distance between two places on the earth's surface. |
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| Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain |
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| The source area of any innovation. |
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| The area tributary to a place and linked to place through lines of exchange or interaction. |
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| Informational Technology Epoch |
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| A measure of distance north or south of the equator. |
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| A measure of distance east and west of a line drawn between the North and South Poles. |
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| A climate strongly influenced by an oceanic environment. |
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| Rock that had been physically altered by heat and/or pressure |
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| Midlatitude Deciduous Forest |
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| A region marked less by its sameness than its dynamic internal structure |
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| A portion of the earth's surface with a basically common topography and common morphology. |
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| A period in geologic history when ice sheets covered large sections of the earth. |
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That portion of a region's economy devote to the extraction of basic materials.
Example: Mining, lumbering, agriculture |
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That portion of a region's economy devoted to informational and idea-generating activities.
Example: Basic research, college/university, new media |
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| Lines of long narrow fields in French Canada created to maximize access to rivers or roads for transportation. |
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| An area having some characteristic or characteristics that distinguish it from other areas. |
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| That portion of a region's economy devoted to the processing of basic materials extracted by the primary sector. |
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Rock formed by the hardening of material deposited in some process such as by wind or settled out from ancient lakes.
Most common: sandstone, limestone, shale |
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| Large land grant in French Canada possessing feudal privileges that were awarded by the kings of France to noblemen of the church. |
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Features of a place related to the immediate environment in which the place is located
Example: Terrain, soil, subsurface, geology, ground water. |
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Features of a place related to its location relative to other places.
Example:Accessibility, Hinterland quality. |
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| The occurrence of locational pairing such that items demanded by one place can be supplied by another. |
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That portion of a region's economy devoted to service activities.
Example: Transportation, retail and wholesale operations, insurance |
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| Marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena |
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| Lots of people, cities, building upward and closer together. |
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