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Geography 101
7th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| export | Sending goods to sell in other countries |
| peninsula | a piece of land that is almost entirely surrounded by water but is connected to the mainland on one side |
| sustainable | meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
| biodiversity | the variety of all living things and their interactions |
| ecosystem | a geographic area where plants, animals and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. |
| rain forest | forests that receive a great amount of rainfall—more than 80 inches each year |
| grassland | its dominance of grasses and other herbaceous plants, its moderate rainfall, and the relative absence of trees and large shrubs |
| tundra | treeless ecosystems where winters are long and cold, and summers are short and (usually) chilly |
| taiga | characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches |
| dessert | an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year |
| multicultralism | the social condition of diversity among a specific population evident through various spatial formations, but particularly seen through the spatial lens of nation states and cities. |
| migration | the movement of people away from their usual place of residence to a new place of residence, either across an international border or within a State |
| tempature forest | a forest found between the tropical and boreal regions, located in the temperate zone |
| NAFTA | another regional supranational organization that unifies trade among Canada, US, and Mexico |
| globalization | the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide |
| cultural diffusion | when certain cultural values, ideas, or even cultures are adopted by different cultures. |