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WorldGeographyy010
Chapter 14-17 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cultural Diffusion | the process by which the people adopt the practices of their neighbors |
| Renaissance | the rival 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 form west to east in the temperate zones of the Earth |
| Euro | the common currecny used by member nations of the European union |
| Compulsory | required |
| Fertile | able to produce abundantly |
| Ore | a rocky material comtaining a vulnerable mineral |
| Terciary Economic Activity | an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others |
| Moor | broad, treeless, rolling land often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog |
| Bog | an area of wet spongey ground |
| Glen | a narrow valley |
| Peat | spongey material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as fuel |
| Cultural Divergence | the resriction of culture from outside infuences |
| Blight | a plant disease |
| Fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancin glacier and filled by melting glacial ice |
| Geothermal Energy | energy produced from the earth intense interior heat |
| Mixed Economy | a system combinging differet 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 |
| Recession | an extended decline in buisness ectivity |
| Confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their soveringetybut give imited power to the 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-lying land that has been reclaimed form the sea |
| Decentralize | to transfer government power to smaller regions |
| Canton | a political division or state; one of the states in Switerland |
| Neutral | to bring a buisness under state control |
| Perishable Good | a product that does not stay fresh for long |
| Strip Mining | the process whereby miners strip away the surfaceof the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits |
| Navigable | deep and wide enough to allow the passage of strips |
| Dry Farming | a farming techmique that leaves land unplanted every few year in order to gather moisture |
| Sirocco | a hot, dry wind from northern africa |
| Hub | a central point of cencentrated activity influence |
| Seismic Activity | earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
| Subsidence | a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sink |
| Renaissance | the rival of art, literature, and learning that took place in europe during the 14, 15, and 16 century |
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