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Ch. 14-17 Vocab...
Term | Definition |
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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 west to east in the temperate zones of the earth. |
Euro | the common currency used by member nations of the European Union. |
Compulsory | required. |
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 drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog. |
Bog | an area of wet spongy ground. |
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 culture form outside influences. |
Blight | a plant disease. |
Fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial 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. |
Nationalism | pride in ones nation; the desire of a cultural group to rule themselves as a seprate nation. |
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 damages. |
Inflation | a sharp, widespread rise in prices. |
Lignite | a soft, brownish black coal. |
Dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water. |
Polder | an area of low-laying 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 war. |
Perishable Good | a product that does not stay good for long. |
Strip Mining | the process by which miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits. |
Navigable | deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships |
Dry Farming | a farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture |
Sirocco | a hot, dry wind from northern Africa |
Hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence |
Seismic Activity | earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
Subsidence | a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks |
Renaissance | the revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries |
Graben | a long. narrow area that has dropped between two faults |
Inhabitable | able to support permanent residents |
Tsunami | a huge wave caused primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption |