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vocab geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| penninsula | a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water. |
| uplands | high land especially at some distance from the sea : |
| polder | a large area of land containing farms and villages encircled by dikes |
| bay | a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water |
| fjord | a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley. |
| canal | an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation. |
| waterway | any navigable body of water |
| ecosystem | a geographic area where plants, animals and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. |
| marine reserve | designated areas that are completely protected from the sea surface to the seafloor, including the foreshore |
| democracy | Democracy is government in which power and civic responsibility are exercised by all adult citizens, directly, or through their freely elected representatives. |
| city state | an independent city that encompasses the totality of its sovereign territory |
| Golden age | a time period in which there was cultural progress, peace, prosperity, and happiness |
| philosopher | a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment |
| plebeian | a member of the common people in ancient Rome |
| aqueduct | a bridge-like system built to move water from one location to another. |
| feudal systems | a type of social and political system in which landholders provide land to tenants in exchange for their loyalty and service. |
| navigation | the art and science of determining the position of a ship, plane or other vehicle, and guiding it to a specific destination |
| Natural Rights | those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable |
| Nationalism | an ideology that asserts that a nation is formed by a group of people with a common identity, language, history, and set of customs |
| Guillotine | an apparatus designed for effectively carrying out executions by beheading. |
| Reparations | reparations are meant to acknowledge and repair the causes and consequences of human rights violations and inequality in countries |
| Factory System | the factory system is a method of manufacturing whereby workers and manufacturing equipment are centralized in a factory |
| Republic | a form of government that emphasizes popular sovereignty, where leaders are elected by the public rather than inheriting power or seizing it by force. |
| Navigable | deep and wide enough for boats and ships to travel on or through |
| Radical | an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron |
| Rhine River | a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea |
| Alps | some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe |
| Danube River | a great river in Europe, symbolizing flow and connection |
| Acropolis | high city |
| Reformation | he action or process of reforming an institution or practice. |
| Renaissance | a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom |
| Industrial Revolution | marked a significant transformation in manufacturing processes and economic structures |
| Enlightenment | an intellectual movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that sought to improve society through fact-based reason and inquiry |
| John Locke | founder of a school of thought known as British Empiricism |
| Reign of Terror | a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular the period of the Terror during the French Revolution. |
| Great Depression | a severe, world -wide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929 . |
| Treaty of Versailles | a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919 |
| Cold War | a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare. |
| Iron Curtain | the political and physical boundary that divided Europe from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1990/1991 |
| Berlin Wall | designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin. |
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