Chapter 6

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is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change.

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Urbanization

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mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city (as in Australia and New Zealand) or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city (as in the United States and Canada).

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Suburb

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is a multifaceted concept, which includes the spreading outwards of a city and its suburbs to its outskirts to low-density and auto-dependent development on rural land

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Urban sprawl

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is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas.

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Megalopolis

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was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

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Underground Railroad

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were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain (and the British monarchy) during the American Revolutionary War.

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Loyalists

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also called the Maritimes or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

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Maritime Provinces

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is a region of Canada, specifically in western Canada, which may correspond to several different definitions, natural or political.

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Prairie Provinces

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is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French parlement

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Parliament

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It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.

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Quebec

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is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories

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Nunavut

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is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.

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NAFTA