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Unit 3 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Seismic Activity | earthquakes |
| Rural | country area |
| Terracing | carving a hill into stair-step shapes for farming |
| Vegetation | plant life |
| Climate | average temperatures and precipitation |
| Precipitation | rain, snow, sleet, hail |
| Urban | city area |
| Agriculture | farming |
| Irrigate | bringing water to crops through pipes or canals |
| Arid | dry |
| Topography | the shape of the landscape (flat or hilly?) |
| Urbanization | movement of people into cities; cities growing bigger |
| Dam Building | putting a wall across a river to control the flow of water |
| Deforestation | cutting down trees |
| Desertification | fertile land turning into a useless desert |
| Mining | digging into the earth to find metals, rocks, fossil fuels, etc. |
| Recreation | things people do for fun |