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chapter 14-17
World Geo.
| cultural diffusion | the process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors. |
| renaissance | the revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. |
| industrial revolution | the shift from human power to machine power. |
| summit | the highest point of a mountain or similar elevation. |
| prevailing westerlies | the constant flow of air from the west to east in temperate zones of the earth. |
| euro | the common currency used |
| compulsory | |
| fertile | able to produce abundantly |
| ore | a rocky material containing a valuable mineral |
| tertiary economic activity | an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others service industry. |
| moor | broad, treeless, rolling land, often poorly drain and having patches of marsh and peat bog |
| glen | a narrow valley |
| peat | spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used as fuel |
| cultural divergence | the restriction of a cultural from the outside |
| blight | a plant disease |
| fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacier ice. |
| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat. |
| mixed economy | a system combining different degrees of government regulation |
| dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community. |
| impressionism | a style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color, light, and shadows. |
| nationalize | pride in one's nation; the desire of culture group to rule themselves as a separate nation. |
| recession | an extended |
| confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give give limited power to a central government. |
| reparation | |
| inflation | a sharp, rise in widespread rise in prices. |
| lignite | a soft, brownish-black coal. |
| dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water. |
| polder | |
| decentralize | |
| canton | a political division or state; one of the states in Switzerland. |
| neutral | |
| perishable goods | |
| strip mining |
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