Questions to Ponder*

Please email your assignment to me by 
March 30 by midnight.

1. What is a postindustrial economy?
   
2. What are some of the major geographic differences between Canada and the United States?
   
3. What is a physiographic province?
   
4. What were the three separate culture hearths of the United States?
   
5. What is the core area of the realm?
   
6. What are 5 stages in Borchert's model of American metropolitan evolution?
   
7. What are 4 stages in the Adams model of intraurban structural evolution?
   
8. What are the values that underlie the culture of the United States?
   
9. What is the emerging mosaic culture?
   
10. What is the meaning of primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary and quinary economic activity?
    
11. What are the growth industries in the postindustrial society?
    
12. What is a technopole?

*adapted from 10th edition study guide

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Created by Bill Strong.  Updated 10-23-02