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CH 7 and 8
vocab ch. 7 and 8
Term | Definition |
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megalopolis | a very large city; a region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas, considered to be a single urban complex |
mangrove | a tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas |
bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or river |
fall line | imaginary line between the appalachian mountains and the atlantic coastal plain, where rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal plain |
sunbelt | the southern and southwestern states of the united states from the carolinas to southern california,characterized by a warm climate and recently, rapid population growth |
humus | the organic material that results when olants and animals that live in late summer and early fall, with winds of at least 74 miles per hour |
growing season | in farming, the average number of days between the last frost of spring and the first frost of fall |
grain elevator | a tall building equipped with machinery for loading, cleaning, storing, and discharging grain |
grain exchange | a place where grain is bought and sold as a commodity |
tundra | a dry, treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow |
aqueduct | a large pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source over a long distance |
province | a territory governed as a political division of a country |
lock | an enclosed section of a canal, in which a ship may be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of the water in that section |
maritime | |
bedrock | |
separatism | |
secede | |
customs | |
tariff | |
NAFTA |