Glossary of Terms: Environmental Impact, Urbanization, and Globalization, Quizzes of Geography

Download Glossary of Terms: Environmental Impact, Urbanization, and Globalization and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 acid rain DEFINITION 1 industrially produced sulfur dioxide & nitrogen oxides that damage forests, poison lakes & kill fish TERM 2 boreal forest* DEFINITION 2 coniferous evergreen forest? (North of Great Lakes) TERM 3 tundra DEFINITION 3 mixture of low shrubs, grasses, & flowering herbs that grow briefly in short growing seasons of high latitudes (near Hudson Bay, etc.) TERM 4 megalopolis* DEFINITION 4 largest settlement cluster in US: Washington, DC; NYC, Boston TERM 5 counterurbanization DEFINITION 5 people move from cities to towns/rural areas TERM 6 urban decentralization DEFINITION 6 metropolitan areas sprawl in all directions TERM 7 concentric zone model DEFINITION 7 urban land uses were neatly organized into rings around a highly focused central business district (CBD) TERM 8 gentrification DEFINITION 8 selective improvement; displacement of lower-income residents of central-city neighborhoods with higher-income residents to improve inner-city landscapes, etc. TERM 9 ethnicity DEFINITION 9 group of people w/ common background and history to identify w/ one another TERM 10 cultural assimilation DEFINITION 10 process where immigrants were absorbed by larger host society