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Chapter 14-17
cultural diffusion | the process by which people adopt the practices of the neighbors |
renaissance | The revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries |
industrial revalution | The shift from human power to machine power |
summit | THe highest point of a mountain or similar elevations |
prevailing westerlies | he constant flow of air from west to eat 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 rock 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 fule |
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 earth's intense interior heat |
mixed economy | A system combining different degrees of government regulation |
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 industries |
moor | Broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained and having pat he's 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 duvergence | the restriction pf 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 regulations |
dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or comminity |
impressionism | a style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color light and shadows |
nationalize | pride in ones nation the desire of a cultural group to rule themselves |
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 |
lingite | 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 divison or stat one of the states in Switerland |
neutral | not taking sides of a war |
perishable good | a product that does not stay fresh for long |
strip mining | the process whereby 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 north arfica |
hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence |
seismic activity | earth quakes 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 cause primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption |