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71 Unit 2 Vocabulary
Practice for the Vocabulary of Unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| contiguous | joined together inside a common boundary |
| megalopolis | continuous urban area that runs into other urban areas |
| coral reef | structures of islands formed by the skeletons of small sea animals |
| free enterprise system | market economy that individual people have the right to run a business to make a profit |
| service industry | business that provides services to people instead of goods |
| navigable | wide and deep enough to allow the passage of ships |
| fossil fuel | coal, oil, natural gas |
| acid rain | rain containing high amounts of chemical pollutants |
| landfills | areas where trach companies dump waste they collect |
| recycling | reusing materials instead of throwing them out |
| free trade | taking down trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas so that goods move freely between countries |
| colony | over seas settlement |
| representative democracy | voters choose leaders who make and enforce the laws |
| federal republic | power is divided between the federal and state governments |
| secede | withdraw from the national government |
| immigrant | people who move to a new country to make a permanent home |
| rural | countryside areas |
| urban | city |
| suburb | smaller communities surrounding cities |
| province | regional political divisions in Canada |
| glaciers | giant sheets of ice |
| tundra | vast, treeless plain where only the top layer of ground thaws in the summer |
| prairie | rolling, inland grassy area with fertile soil |
| cordillera | group of mountain ranges that run side by side |
| newsprint | type of paper used for printing newspapers |
| dominion | own government for local affairs but a different country controls foreign affairs |
| parliamentary democracy | voters elect representatives to Parliament and Parliament chooses the prime minister |
| prime minister | head of the government |
| bilingual | two official languages |
| autonomy | right to govern self |
Created by:
robbiesmom
on 2009-10-08