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ch. 7 & 8 vocab
Term | Definition |
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megalopis | a very large city; a region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas, considered |
mangrove | a tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas |
bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or a river |
fall line | |
sunbelt | |
humus | the organic material that results when plants and animals that live in the soil die and decay |
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 | |
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 |
maritime | bordering on or near the sea; relating to navigation or shipping |
lock | an enclosed section of a canal, in which a ship maybe raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of the water in that section |
bedrock | the solid rock underlying the earths surface |
seperatism | a movement to win political, religous, or ethintic independence from another group |
secede | |
customs | |
tariff | |
NAFTA |