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Ch. 14-17
Term | Definition |
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cultural diffusion | the restriction of a culture from outside influence. |
renaissance | the revival of art literature and learning that took place in europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, centuries. |
industrial revolution | the shift from human power to machine power. |
summits | the highest point of a mountain or similar elevation. |
prevailing westerlies | the constant flow of air from west to east in the temperature 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 |
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 water logged and decaying mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as fuel |
cultural divergence | The restriction of a culture from 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 earths 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 religion or community |
impressionism | a style of art where painter try to catch visual impressions made by color light and shadows |
nationalize | To bring a 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 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 o 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 is in Switzerland |
neutral | not taking sides in a war |
perishable goods | a product that does not stay fresh |
strip mining | The process whereby miners away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits |
Navigable | Deep or wide enough to allow the passage of ships |
dry farming | A farming technique that leaves land unplanted every one or two years in order to gather moisture |
sirocco | A hot dry wind from northern africa |
hub | a central point of concentrated activity and i nfluence |
seismic activity | earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
subsidence | a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks |
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 a volcanic eruption |