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chapter 17 Geo terms
section 1&2
Term | Definition |
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The height of a physical feature above sea level. | Elevation |
Separate region of a continent. | Subcontinent |
Capable of being continued without damaging the environment or using up resources permanently. | Sustainable |
Farmers who grow food for their families to eat not sell. | Subsistence Farmer |
The protection of the environment. | Conservation |
A rigid section of Earth's crust that can move independently. | Plate |
Measures such as sewers to protect public health. | Sanitation |
A long period with little or no precipitation. | Drought |
A community of living organisms and their natural environment,or habitat. | Ecosystem |
An area where a river deposits sediment as it empties into a larger body of water. | Delta |
A long period of food shortage. | Famine |
A seasonal wind that brings intense rainfall during part of the year. | Monsoon |
A chemical or physical waste that creates an unclean or dirty environment. | Pollution |
The process of water Turing into vapor and rising into the atmosphere due to the sun's heating,part of the Hydrologic cycle. | Evaporation |
A layer of rock beneath earth that contains water. | Aquifer |
Fertile suitable for farming. | Arable |
spearation or begin set apart from others | isolation |
the nonviolent disobeying of laws | civill disobedience |
a good or godess | deity |
a group of people states ruled by a single ruler | empire |
a socialist studcer in india composed of forming leaves which was started by the Aryans | caste system |
center of civleltion which ideas and technology spread | cultural hearth |
the practice of one country derect ruler a deloving trade in a form of teratoriy for its on behave | colonialism |
an object of idea that can be used to represent an object or idea | symbol |
the birth of the soul into anorther physchial life | reincarnation |