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ch 14-17 vocab
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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summit | the highest point of a mountain or similar elvevation |
prevailing westerlies | the constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth |
euro | the common currency used by member nations of the European union |
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 century |
industrial revolution | the shift from human power to machine power |
compulsory | required |
fertile | able to produce abundently |
ore | a rocky material containing a valuable maatrial |
tertiary economic activity | an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve other service industy |
moor | broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog |
bog | an area of wet spongy ground |
glen | a narrow valey |
peat | spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as fuel |
cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an Advancing glacier and filled by glacier ice |
geothermal energy | energy produced from the earths intense interior heat |
mixed economy | a system combining different degrees of government regulation |
blight | a plant disease |
Dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community |
impressionism | a style of art were painter try to capture visual impressions made by color light and shadows |
nationalize | to bring business under state control |
recession | an extended decline in business activity |
confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
reparation | money paid for war damage |
inflation | a sharp wide spread of prices |
lignite | a soft brownish black coal |
dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water |
polder | an area of low lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea |
decentralize | to transfer government power to smaller regions |
canton | a political division or state one of the states in Switzerland |
neutral | not taking sides in a war |
perishable goods | a product that does not stay fresh for long |
strip mining | the process by witch miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bear the mineral deposites |