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World Geography
Chapter 7 and 8 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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. |
Mangrove | A tropical that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas. |
Bayou | A marshy inlet or outlet of lake or a river. |
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. |
Sunbelt | The southern and southwestern states of the United States, from the Carolinas to southern recently, rapid population growth |
Humus | The organic material that results when plants and animals that live in the soil die and decay. |
Growing Season | In farming the average number of days between frost of spring and the first frost of fall. |
Grain Elevator | A tall building equipped with machinery for loading, cleaning, storing, and discharging grain. |
Grain Exchange | A place where grains is bought and sold as a commodity. |
Tundra | A dry, treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow |
Aqueduct | A large pipe or channel designed to transport water from remote source over a long distance. |
province | a territory governed a political division of a country |
maritime | bordering on or near the sea; relating o navigation or shipping |
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 |
bedrock | the solid rock underlying the earth's surface |
separatism | a movement to win political, religious, or ethnic independence from another group |
secede | to withdraw formally from membershiping a political or religious organization |
customs | fees charged by a government on imported gods |
tariff | a tax imposed by a government on imported goods |
NAFTA | North america free trade agreement, which phase out trade barriers among the united states, Canada, Mexico |