Term | Definition |
cultural diffusion | the process by which people adopt the practices of their |
renaissance | meaning rebirth |
industrial revolution | the shift from human power to machines power |
summits | highest points of the alps contrast with the flat North European Plain |
physical processes | over time what may happen to this sea stack |
economic activities | how does this photograph suggest that the North European Plain is an important agricultural region |
physical characteristics | name three other mountain ranges in Europe |
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; 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 |
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 earths 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 y 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 |
prevailing westerlies | the constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth |
ecosystems | the interaction of plant life animal life and the physical environment in which they live |
urbanization | the growth of city populations |
navigable | that is deep and wide enough to allow ships to pass |
dry farming | methods that leave land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture |
sirocco | or hot dry winds from northern Africa blow over this area |
hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence of new transportation routes |
seismic activity | it has many 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 | areas of land that have dropped down between faults were flooded |
inhabitable | able to support permanent residents |