Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
World Goegraphy
Chapter 14-17 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cultural Diffision | The process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors. |
| Renaissance | The revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe between the Fourteenth , Fifteenth, Sixteenth Century. |
| Industrial Revolution | The shift of human power to machine power. |
| Summit | The Highest point of a mountain or similar elevation. |
| Prevailing Westernlies | The consent flow of wind from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth. |
| Euro | The common |
| Compulsory | Requirement |
| Fertie | Able to produce abundandanty |
| 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 persue activities that serve others |
| Moor | Broad, treeless, rolling land often poorly drained and having patches of march and peat bog. |
| Bog | An area of wet, spongy ground. |
| Glen | A narrow valley. |
| Peat | Spongy material containing decaying and waterlogged mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as plants. |
| Cultural Divergence | The restriction of a culture from outside influences |
| Blight | A plant disease. |
| Fjord | A narrow inlet or valley from the sea originality carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacier ice. |
| Geothermal Energy | Energy produced by the earths intense interior heart. |
| Mixed Economy | A system combining diffrent degrees of government regulations. |
| Dialect | Varions of a language that is unique in a country or community. |
| Impressionism | Artist that were leaders in the style of paining |
| nationalized | brought under state control |
| Confederation | loose political union |
| Reparation | Money for war damages |
| inflation | sharply rising prices |
| lignite | Soft, brown coal |
| dike | embankment of the earth and rock, to hold back the water. |
| Polder | reclaimed land from the sea |
| decentralze | to tansfer government power to smaller regions |
| Canton | States |
| neutral | not taking sided in the war |
| perishable good | A product that does not stay fresh for long |
| strip mining | the process whereby miners strip awat the surface of the eath to lay the mineraldepostits. |
| recession | An extended decline in a business acivity |
Created by:
Dance1999
Popular Geography sets