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Ch. 7&8 Vocabulary
Ch. 7&8 Vocab
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 coastal areas. |
bayou | A marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or a river |
fall line | imaginary line between the Appalachian mountains and he Atlantic coastal plain, where rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal plain. |
sunbelt | The southern and southwestern states of the United States, from the Carolina 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 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 grain is brought and sold as a commodity |
tundra | a region where temperatures are always cool or cold specialized plants can grow |
aqueduct | a large pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source over long distances. |
province | A territory governed as a political division of a country |
maritime | Bordering on or near the sea; relating to navigation or shipping |
lock | an enclosed section of a canal in which a ship may be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of the water in that section |
bedrock | the solid rock underlying the earths surface |
separatism | 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 on a government on imported goods |
NAFTA | North America Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the united states, Canada, and Mexico. |