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W. Geo
Chapter 14,15,16,17 Vocab.
Term | Definition |
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cultural diffusion | The process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors. |
Renaissance | The revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. |
Industrial Revolution | The shift from human power to machine power. |
summits | 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. |
compulsory | required. |
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 in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others. |
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. |
nationalize | To bring a business under state control. |
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 political division or state; 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. |
navigable | Deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships. |
dry farming | A farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture. |
sirocco | A hot, dry wind from northern Africa. |
hub | A central point |
seismic activity | |
subsidence | |
graben | |
inhabitable | |
tsunami |