Term | Definition |
megalopolis | a very large city, a region madeup of several cities and their surrounding areas |
mangrove | a tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas |
bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or river |
fall line | imagenary line between the appalacjian mountains and the atlantic coastal plain where rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal basin |
Sunbelt | the southern and southwestern states of the U.S. from th carolinias, characterized by a warm climate |
humus | organic material that result when plants and animals that live in the soil die and decay |
growing season | in farming the average number of days between the last frost of spring and the first frost of fall |
grain elevator | a tall building equipped with machinery for loading, cleaning, storing, and discharging grain |
grain exchange | a place where grain is bought and sold as a comodity |
tundra | dry treeless plain that sprouts grasses and mosses only in summer, when the top layer thickens |
aquededuct | large pipes that carry water over a long distance |
province | a territory governed as a political division of a country |
lock | enclosed section of canal in which a shp may be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of the water in that section |
maritime | bording on or near the sea |
bedrock | the solid rock underlying the earths surface |
seperatism | movement to win political, religious, or ethnic independence from another |
secede | to withdraw formally from membership in a political or religious orginization |
customs | fees charged by a government on imported goods |
tariff | a tax imposed by a government on imported goods |
NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the united states, canada, mexico |