Why is it important to understand how North America’s political economy functions as compared to understanding its basic economic patterns?

INSTRUCTIONS practice icon 1. Why is it important to understand how North America’s political economy functions as compared to understanding its basic economic patterns? 2.What are at least three examples of types of economic production in the primary sector of the North American economy? 3.What are some of the major differences in the location patterns of truck farming, ranching, and cash grain farming in the United States? 4.Where is the Rust Belt located, and why has manufacturing in this part of North America declined so dramatically in the postindustrial era in recent decades? 5.Why has globalization been viewed more negatively by workers living in rural parts of the United States as compared to residents in urban areas of the U.S.? 6.What have been some of the major concerns of legislators and others who opposed the approval of NAFTA in the mid-1990s in terms of its potential to negatively impact local communities? 7.How did the major landform features of the Atlantic Periphery provide opportunities and constraints for early settlement? 8.Name at least three types of primary production that have long been important to the economies of the Atlantic Periphery. 9.What are some of the distinctive cultural landscape features that contribute to the Atlantic Periphery’s unique sense of place? 10.Find two pictures online that depict two of the features from question 9. Embed them into the PA document.

 

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