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| Central business district (CBD) | The traditional business and commercial center of a city or town, sometimes referred to as downtown |
| Chaparral | The type of vegetation made up of dense forests of shrubs and short trees common in Mediterranean climates |
| Headwaters | The source of a stream or a river |
| Fall Line | A boundary in the eastern US where the higher land of the piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain |
| Free Enterprise | A system that lets competition among businesses determine the price of products |
| Inuit | A memeber of the ARctic native peoples of North America |
| Market Economy | An economic systtem based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned |
| Megalopolis | A "great city" that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington DC |
| Metropolitan Area | A region that includes a central city and its surrounding suburbs |
| Parliament | In Canada, national legislature made up of the senate and the house of commons |
| Population density | The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer |
| Separatism | The breaking away of one part of a country to create a separate independent country |
| Sunbelt | Mild climate region in Southern US |
| Trade Deficit | Spending more money on imports than earning from exports |
| Urban Sprawl | The spreading of urban development on undeveloped land near a city |
