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Chapter 13 Vocab
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eurasia | Region that lies on both the European and Asian contiinents |
| Urban | City |
| Suburbs | Smaller communities that surround a city |
| Consumer goods | Clothes, radios, and automobiles |
| Rural | Countryside |
| tundra | Ground thaws during the summer |
| taiga | World´s largest forest |
| steppes | desert and grassland |
| Communism | Economical system |
| heavy industry | making of iron and steel |
| light industry | making of furniture and clothes |
| Slavs | An ethnic group |
| majority culture | Slavs |
| minority culture | Islamic or Jewish |
| Ethnic conflict | dispute between ethnic groups |
| nomads | people who move a lot |
| oasis | green area |
| elevation | above sea level |