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ch 14-17
Term | Definition |
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cultural diffusion | procces by which people adopt the practice of their neighbor |
industrial revolution | shift from human power to mechan power |
renaissance | revail of art literature and learming that took place to europe during the fourteenth fifteenth, and sixthteenths |
summits | highest point if a mountian |
euro | common currency used by member nations of the European |
compulsory | required |
fertile `` | able to produce abundantly |
ore | rocky material containing valuable mineral |
tertiary economic activity | enonomic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw material but pursue ativities that serve others aervious industrys |
moor | broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained and having patches or marsh and peat bog |
bog | area of a wet, spongy ground |
glen | a narrow valley |
peat | spongy material contaning waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used fuel |
cultural divergence | process by which people adopt the practice of their neighbors |
blight | plant decease |
fjord | narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting ice |
geothermal energy | energy produced from he earth's intence interior heat |
mixed economy | system combining different degrees of government regulation |
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 | hot dry wind from northern Africa |
hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence |
seismic activity | earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
subsidence | geologic phenomenon in which the ground in the area sinks |
Renaissance | revival of art literature and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth century |
graben | a long narrow area that has dropped between two fults |
inhabitable | able to support permanent resident |
tsunami | huge wave caused primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as the earthquake or a volcanic eruption |
dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water |
polder | area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea |
decentralize | to transfer government power to smaller regions |
confederation | 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 widespread rise in prices |
lignite | a soft brownish-black coal |
dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to region or community |
impressionism | a style of art where the painters try to catch visual impression made by color, shadows, and light |
nationalize | to bring a business under state control |
recession | extended decline in business activity |
canton | a political division or state one of the states in Switzerland |
neutral | not taking sides in war |
perishable good | product that does not stay fresh for long |
strip mining | process whereby miners strip away surface of the earth to lay bare in the mineral deposits |