Ch. 7 & 8 Vocab.
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Megalopolis. | A very large city; a region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas, considered to be a single urban complex.
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| Mangrove. | A tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas.
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| Bayou. | A marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or a river.
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| Fall line. | Imaginary line between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coastal plain, where rivers and streams from waterfalls and rapids descend from higher elevations to the coastal plain.
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| Sunbelt. | The southern and southwestern states of the United States, from the Carolinas to southern California, characterized by a warm climate and, 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 the last 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 grain 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 a remote source over a long distance.
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| Province. | A territory governed as a political division of a country.
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| Maritime. | Bordering or near the sea; relating to navigation or shipping.
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| Lock. | An enclosed section of a canal, in which a ship may 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 membership in a political or religious organization.
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| Customs. | Fees charged by a government on imported goods.
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| Tariff. | A tax imposed by a government on imported goods.
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| NAFTA. | North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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