Term | Definition |
cultural diffusion | the process by wich people adopt the parctces 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 shitf frim human power t o machine power |
summit | the highest point if mountian or similar elevation |
previlling wesrerlies | the constant flow of air from west to east in the tempreate zones of the earth |
euro | the common currency used by member nations of the european |
penicula | water on three sides of land |
compulsory | reqwierd |
fertile | able to produce abunadantly |
ore | a rocky meterial cintaining a valuable mineral |
tertiary economic ativity | an ecinomic activity in wic people do not directly gater or process raw materials but pursue acticities that seve otiers servuce inderstry |
moor | board treeless rolling land often poorly drained and heing patches of marsh and peat bog |
bog | an area of wet spongy ground |
glen | a narrow valley |
peat | spongy meterial containing waterlogged and deacying mosses and plants some times dried and used as fuel |
cultural duvergence | THE RESTRICATION OF A CULTURE from out side influences |
blight | a plant desease |
fjord | a narrow valley or inlet frm the sea originally coverd out by an adcanving glacier and filled by melting glacial ice |
geothermal | energy produced from the earth column of water and team into the air |
mixed economy | a system combinding diffrent degrees of goverment regulation |
dialect | variaions of laguage that are unique to a region or coumunity |
impressionism | this school of are sought to capture feeting visual impressions made by color light and shadows |
nationalize | brought under state controal sien businesses cibsudered vital to national intrests |
recession | an extended decli in business activity |
confederation | or losse political union |
reparation | money for war damages |
inflation | or sharply rising prices ruined the value if germanys currency |
lignite | a soft brown coal |
dike | or embanksments of earth and rock to hold back the water |
polder | beginning in te 1200 the dutch used wind mills to power the pumps that removed water from the land |
decentralize | its goverment that is transfer 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 | meaning that it does not stay fresh for long most of it is turned into processed products like chocolate and heese for export |
strip mining | where minersstrip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral depostits |
navigable | deep and wide enough ti allow the passage of ships |
dry farming | a farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gathier moisture |
sirocco | a hot dry wind from northjern africa |
hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence |
seismic activity | earthquakes and valacno erupshions |
subsidence | a gllogical phenimenon in wich the ground in an area sinks |
renaissance | the revival of art literature and learning that tood place in europe durng the fourteenth fifteenth and sictheenth centuries |
garben | a long narrow are that has dropped between two faults |
inhabitable | able to support permanent residents |
tsunami | a huge wave caused primarily by a dusturbance beneath the ocean such as an earthquake or a valcano eruption |