Test 2 short answer

• Mining and Ag: dominant until 1900
• Manufacturing: dominant until 1950
• The Service Era: 1980s
• The Information/ High Tech Era: present

• Arctic Coastal Plain
• Arctic Islands
• Wester Mountain region
• Westen Interior Plains
• Canadian Shield
• Hudson Bay Lowlands
• Great Lakes Lowlands
• St. Lawrence
• Appalachian Region

• Post Industrialism
• Poverty
• Illegal immigrants
• Age (strain on healthcare/economics/etc because of the baby boomers retiring)
• Debt (approaching 17 trillion)

• Isolation-distance to markets-small pop base
• Still must import several products
• Young people are leaving because of high taxes
• Legal problems with the Maoris (their pop is growing)

• Disputed Islands with Russia
• Family Breakdown: young people want more privacy. self-determination. most school children still wear uniforms
• High teen suicide Rate
• Pollution and other Urban problems
• Crowded population despite the low birth rate
• An aging nation and shortage of labor
• Have to depend on other countries for imports
• Competition from other countries- neg reaction from U.S. in 1990s

• Industry processing is weak
• Small local markets
• Long distance to many markets
• Legal problems with aboriginals

• S. Mo
• NW Ar
• E Ok
• SE Ks

• Grain farming
• Dairy farming
• Beef cattle
• Forestry
• Lead mining

• Tourism
• Medical 
• Farming

Springfield - Branson

• Poverty
• Marijuana
• Meth

the physical geography and culture are much like this area since many of the people came form there (hills, language, music, etc.)