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ch 7&8
Ch. 7 & 8 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| megalopolis | a very large city |
| mangrove | a tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas |
| bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or river |
| fall line | imaginary line between appalachian mountains and the atlantic coastal plains, where rivers and streams form waterfalls ahnd rapids as they descend from higher to the coastal plains |
| sunbelt | the southern and southwestern states of the united states, from the carolinas to the southern california,characterizedby 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 the first frost of fall |
| grain elevator | a tall building equipped with mach |
| grain exchange | |
| tundra | |
| aqueduct |