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Vocabulary 7 & 8
Vocabulary 7& 8
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 the Atlantic coastal plan, where rivers and steams 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 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 the first frost of fall |
Grain elevtor | 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 |
aqueduct | a large pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source over a long distance |
provice | a territory governed as a political division of a country |
maritime | bordering on or near the sea |
lock | an enclosed section of a canal, in which a ship may be raised or lowered by raiseing the water |
bedrock | |
separatism | |
secede | |
NAFTA | |
customs | |
teriff |