Chapter 14-17
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| cultural diffusion | the process by which people adopt the practices of the neighbors
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| renaissance | The revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
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| industrial revalution | The shift from human power to machine power
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| summit | THe highest point of a mountain or similar elevations
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| prevailing westerlies | he constant flow of air from west to eat in the temperate zones of the earth
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| euro | the common currency used by member nations of the European Union
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| compulsory | required
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| fertile | able to produce abundantly
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| ore | a rock material containing a valuable mineral
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| 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
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| moor | broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog
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| bog | an area of wet spongy ground
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| glen | a narrow valley
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| peat | Spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used as fule
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| cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences
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| blight | a plant disease
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| fjord | A narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice
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| geothermal energy | Energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat
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| mixed economy | A system combining different degrees of government regulation
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| fertile | Able to produce abundantly
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| ore | A rocky material containing a valuable mineral
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| tertiary economic activity | An economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others service industries
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| moor | Broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained and having pat he's of marsh and peat bog
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| bog | An area of wet spongy ground
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| glen | A narrow valley
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| peat | Spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as fuel
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| cultural duvergence | the restriction pf a culture from outside influences
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| blight | a plant disease
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| fjord | A narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice
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| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earths intense interior heat
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| mixed economy | a system combining different degrees of government regulations
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| dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or comminity
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| impressionism | a style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color light and shadows
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| nationalize | pride in ones nation the desire of a cultural group to rule themselves
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| recession | an extended decline in business activity
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| confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government
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| reparation | money paid for war damages
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| inflation | a sharp widespread rise in prices
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| lingite | a soft brownish black coal
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| dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water
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| polder | an area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea
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| decentralize | to transfer government power to smaller regions
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| canton | a political divison or stat one of the states in Switerland
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| neutral | not taking sides of a war
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| perishable good | a product that does not stay fresh for long
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| strip mining | the process whereby miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits
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| navigable | deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships
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| dry farming | a farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture
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| sirocco | a hot dry wind from north arfica
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| hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence
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| seismic activity | earth quakes and volcanic eruptions
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| subsidence | a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks
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| renaissance | The revival of art, literature and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
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| graben | a long narrow area that has dropped between two faults
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| inhabitable | able to support permanent residents
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| tsunami | a huge wave cause primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption
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