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ch. 14-17
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Cultural Diffusion | The process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors. |
Renaisance | The revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. |
Industrial Revolution | The shift from human power to machine power. |
Summit | The highest point of a mountain or similar elevation. |
Prevailing Westerlies | The constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth. |
Euro | The common currency used by member nations of the European Union. |
Fertile | Able to produce abundantly. |
Ore | A rocky material containing a valuable mineral. |
Tertiary Economic Activity | An economic activity which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others; service industry. |
Moor | Broad, treeless, rolling land, often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog. |
Bog | An area of wet, spongy ground. |
Glen | A narrow valley |
Peat | Spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used as fuel. |
Cultural Divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
Blight | a plant disease |
fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice |
Geothermal Energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat |
Mixed Economy | a system combining different degrees of government regulation |
Dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community |
Impressionism | a style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color, light, and shadows |
Nationalism | pride in one's nation; the desire of a cultural group to rule themselves as a separate nation |
Recession | an extended decline in business activity |
Confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
Reparation | money paid for war damages |
Inflation | a sharp, widespread rise in prices |
Lignite | a soft, brownish-black coal |
Dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water |
Polder | an area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea |
Decentralize | to transfer government power to smaller regions |
Canton | a deep valley with vertical sides that have been eroded by river water |
Neutral | not taking side in a war |
Perishable good | a product that does not stay fresh for long |
Strip Mining | the process whereby miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits |
Navigable | |
Dry Fardming | |
Sirocco | |
Hub | |
Seismic Activity | |
Subsidence | |
Graben | |
Inhabitable | |
tsunami |