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geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Export | to send or transmit (ideas, institutions, etc.) to another place, especially to another country. |
| Peninsula | an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland. |
| Sustainable | capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below. |
| Biodiversity | biological diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment. |
| Ecosystem | Ecology. a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment. |
| Rainforest | a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall. |
| Grassland | land with grass growing on it, especially farmland used for grazing or pasture. |
| Tundra | one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. |
| Taiga | the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia. |
| Desert | a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all. |
| Multiculturalism | the state or condition of being multicultural. |
| Migration | the process or act of migrating |
| Temperate Forest | the part of the earth's surface lying between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere or between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized by having a climate that is warm |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement. |
| Globalization | the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world. |
| ) Cultural Diffusion | the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point |