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vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Megalopolis | very large city; a region made up of several large cites and their surrunding ares |
Mangrove | tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas |
Bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or river |
Fall Line | industry line between App. Mt. and the Atlantic coastal plain, where rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as the descend from higher elevations to coastal plain |
Sunbelt | southern and southwestern states if the U.S. from the Carolina to California characterized by warm climate and recently rapid populaton growth |
Humus | organic martial that results when plants and animals live in the soil die and decay |
Growing season | average number of days between the last frost of sprin to the frist frost of fall |
Grain Elevator | a tall building equipped with machinery for loading cleaning storing and discharging grain |
Grain exchanged | a place where rin is sold and bought in a a community |
Tundra | dry treeless plain where temps. are always cooled jcrulled |
Aqueduct | a large pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source over a long period of time |
Bedrock | the solid rock underlying the earths surface |
lock | enclosed section section of a canal, in which a ship may be raised or lowered by rising or lowering the level of the water in that section |
maritime | bordering on or near the sea; relating to navigation or shopping |
province | A principal administrative division of certain countries or empires |
separatism | movement to win political religious ethic Independence from group |
secede | withdraw formally from membership in a political or religon |
customs | fees charged by a government on imported goods |
tariff | tax imposed by government on imported goods |
NAFTA | north american free trade agreement which phased out trade barres among the unit states Canada and mexico |