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Social studies SFA
Ch 4,5,6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Contiguous | joined together inside a common boundry |
| megalopolis | huge urban area made up of several large cities and nearby communities |
| praire | rolling inland grassland region with fertile soil |
| cordillera | region of parallel mountain chains |
| canyon | deep valleys with steep sides |
| navigable | wide and deep enough for ships to pass |
| glacier | giant ice sheet |
| divide | the high point in a land mass that determines the direction rivers flow |
| constrain | limit |
| route | a journey |
| Colony | overseas settlement tied to a parent country |
| annex | declare ownership of an area |
| terrorism | violence used against the people or governmant in the hopes of winning political goals |
| representative democracy | form of government in which voters choose leaders who make and enforce the laws |
| federalism | political and social system in which kings gave land to nobles in exchange for the nobles promise to serve them and provide military service as knights for the king |
| amendment | an addition to a legal settlement or law |
| parliamentry democracy | govt in which voters elect representative to a law making body called parliament and members of parliment vote for an offical caled the prime minister to head the govt |
| economy | way of producing goods |
| regime | govt usually led by a dictator |
| principle | rule or guideline |
| core | basic or fundamental |
| ban | legally block |
| surburb | smaller community just outside a large city |
| indigenous | accepting two offical languanges able to speak |
| evolve | develop |
| generate | make |
| partipate | take part in |
| free market | type of economyin which people are free to buy and produce and sell with limited govt involvement |
| profit | money a business earns after all its expenses are met |
| stock | part ownership of a company |
| newsprint | type of paper used for printing newspapers |
| guarantee | promise |
| media | types of commuinacation such as the internet, TV, and radio |
| reluctant | hesitant |
| trade deficit | situation that occurs when the value of a countries imports is higher than the value if it's exports |
| tariff | tax added to th price of goods that are imported |
| trade surplus | situation that occurs when the value of a country's exports is higher than the value of it's actions |
| acid rain | chemicals from air pollution that combine with precipitation |
| brownfield | sites that have been abandoned and may comtain dangerous chemical |
| urban sprawl | spread of human settlement |
| restict | to limit |
| commuinity | neighborhood |
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