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The author of your text uses the core-periphery model as a conceptual tool to categorize and explain important processes and patterns in European geography. Briefly define the core-periphery model. Describe the areal extent of both the core and the periphery in Europe, providing examples of countries (or areas) in each designation. Describe what factors would lead to designation in either category and explain how this relationship influences economic interaction and political relations at the supranational level. In other words, does the European Union treat countries of the core differently from countries of the periphery? If so, how?
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On page 45 of your textbook, the authors state: In the course of intertwined urbanization and industrialization, the spatial economy of North America underwent profound changes. Describe these changes over time. Define the four sectors of the economy and explain how they relate to the spatial distribution of economic activity in North America. (In other words, describe the growth and areal focus of secondary production, the shift to the tertiary sector, and the current expansion into the quaternary sector of the economy.) What do these changes suggest about economic unevenness in the United States and how does this influence regional demographic growth and/or decline?
3.Describe the Physical Geography of Middle America as outlined in chapter two. Discuss the relationship between population distribution and physiography as presented in your text. Where applicable, describe how the environment influences settlement and how settlement influences the physical environment.