Term | Definition |
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. |
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 |
compulsory | Required |
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 persue 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 |