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unit 1 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| location | the site or position of a place or a thing |
| enviroment | the surrounding plants in which people or animals live |
| plain | large area of flat or nearly flat land |
| barrier island | a narrow island between the main land and the ocean |
| escarpment | a steep slope or cliff |
| plateau | an are of high flat land |
| fault line | a crack in earths surface cause by moving plates |
| aquifers | a layer of rock or gravel that absorbs rainfall and keeps it flowing underground |
| basin | a sunken area in plateau found between mountain ranges |
| elevation | height above sea level |
| arid | lacking enough water for things to grow |
| petroleum | a type of oil that is the source for gasoline |
| drought | a period of lower than normal anticipation |
| erosion | the wearing away of earths surface by the movement of water, wind, ice, and gravity |
| mesa | a small high plateau |
| butte | a flat topped hill smaller than a mesa |
| agribussines | large scale farming including production prosecessing and distrubission |
| nomad | a person who moves from place to place |
| archeologist | a scientist who studes the physical remains of the past |
| artifact | any object made or used by humans such as tools pottery bones or shells |
| hunter gatherer | a person who lives by hunting and gathering food rather than growing it |
| shaman | a person who believed to have the power to summon and heal the sick |
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