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chap 7&8
chap 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 a swampy 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 plains where rivers and streams from waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal plains |
sunbelt | the southern and southwestern states of the united states from the Carolinas to southern California |
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 dry treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only 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 related to navigating 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 |
sepretism | 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 |