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WorlddGeographyy07
Chapter 7&8 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |
Mangrove | a tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along costal areas |
Bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or a river |
Fall Line | imaginary line between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coastal plains, where rivers and strams form waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the costal plain |
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. |
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 the last frost of spring and thee first frost of fall |
Grain Elevator | a tall building equipped with machinery for loading, cleaning, storing, and discharging grain |
Grain Exchange | a place where grain 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 |
Aqueducts | a large pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source over a long distance |
Province | a territory governed as a political division of a country |
Maritime | bordering on or near the sea; relatingto navigation or shipping |
Lock | an enclosed section of a canal, in whicha ship may be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of water in that section |
Bedrock | the solid rock underlying the earth's surface |
Seperatism | a movement to win political, religious, or ethnic independence from another group |
Secede | to withdraw formally from membership in a political or religious organization |
Customs | fees charged by a government on imported goods |
Tariff | a tax imposed by a government on imported goods |
NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico |