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chapter 6 vocabulary
geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cordillera | a chain of mountains |
| province | a region of a country; a tractor or district |
| timberline | the latitude of a mountain system at ad above which trees do not grow |
| Chinook winds | a wind phenomenon in North America that causes dramatic warming during the winter |
| overfishing | to exhaust the usable fish supply in certain waters |
| parliamentary | a representative government led by a parliament and a prime minister. |
| prime minister | the executive of a parliamentary republic |
| multicultural | the view that all cultures are equally valid and no culture is better than another |
| Quebecois | French speaking Canadians that live in Quebec |
| first nations | the native peoples in Canada |
| animist | religious belief that ascribes spiritual powers to animals, plants, and other aspects of nature |