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World Geography
Chapter 14-17 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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1. cultural diffusion | the process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors. |
2. industrial revolution | the shift from human power to machine power |
3. summit | the highest point of a mountain or similar elevation |
4. prevailing westerlies | the constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth. |
5. euro | the common currency used by member nations of the European |
6. compulsory | required |
7. fertile | able to produce abundantly |
8. ore | a rocky material containing a valuable mineral |
9. tertiary economic activity | an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve other; service industry |
10. moor | broad, treeless, rolling land, often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog |
11. bog | an area of wet, spongy groun |
12. glen | a narrow valley |
13. peat | spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and use as fuel. |
14. cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
15. blight | a plant disease. |
16. fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by an advancing glacier and fille bt melting glacial ice |
17. geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat |
18.mixed economy | a system combining different degrees of government regulation. |
19. dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community |
20. impressionism | a style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions mad by color light, and shadows |
21. recession | an extended decline in business activity |
22. confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
23. reparation | money paid for war damages |
24. inflation | a sharp, widespread rise in prices |
25. lignite | A SOFT, brownish-black coal |
26. dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water |
27. polder | an area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea |
28. decentralize | to transfer government power to smaller regions |
canton | a political division or sate; one of the states in switzerland |
neutral | not taking sides 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 |
nationalize | to bring a business under state conrtol |
navigable | deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships |
dry farming | a farming technique that leaves land planted every few years n order to gather moisture |
sirocco | a hot,dry wind from northern africa |
hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence |
seismic activity | earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
subsidence | a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks |
renaissance | the revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth,fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries |
graben | a long, narrow area that has dropped between two faults |
inhabitable | able to support permanent residents |
tsunami | a huge wave caused primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as and earthquake or a volcanic eruption. |