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Chapter 7 and 8 Vocab

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megalopolis   A very large city; a region made up several large cities and their surrounding areas, considered to be a single urban complex.  
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Mangrove   A tropical that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas.  
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Bayou   A marshy inlet or outlet of lake or a river.  
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Fall Line   Imaginary line between the Appalachians Mountains and their Atlantic coastal plain, where rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal plains.  
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Sunbelt   The southern and southwestern states of the United States, from the Carolinas to southern recently, rapid population growth  
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Humus   The organic material that results when plants and animals that live in the soil die and decay.  
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Growing Season   In farming the average number of days between frost of spring and the first frost of fall.  
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Grain Elevator   A tall building equipped with machinery for loading, cleaning, storing, and discharging grain.  
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Grain Exchange   A place where grains is bought and sold as a commodity.  
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Tundra   A dry, treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow  
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Aqueduct   A large pipe or channel designed to transport water from remote source over a long distance.  
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province   a territory governed a political division of a country  
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maritime   bordering on or near the sea; relating o navigation or shipping  
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lock   an enclosed sectin of a canal, in which a shipnmay be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of the water in that section  
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bedrock   the solid rock underlying the earth's surface  
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separatism   a movement to win political, religious, or ethnic independence from another group  
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secede   to withdraw formally from membershiping a political or religious organization  
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customs   fees charged by a government on imported gods  
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tariff   a tax imposed by a government on imported goods  
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NAFTA   North america free trade agreement, which phase out trade barriers among the united states, Canada, Mexico  
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