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Vocabulary 7 & 8
Vocabulary 7& 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Megalopolis | A very large city; a region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas, considered to be a single urban complex, |
| Mangrove | a tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas |
| bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or a river |
| fall line | imaginary line between the Appalachian mountains and the Atlantic coastal plan, where rivers and steams form waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal plain |
| sunbelt | the southern and southwestern states of the united states from the carolinas to southern california characterized by a warm climate and recently rapid population growth. |
| Humus | the organic material that results 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 elevtor | 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 commodity |
| Tundra | a dry treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized |
| aqueduct | a large pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source over a long distance |
| provice | a territory governed as a political division of a country |
| maritime | bordering on or near the sea |
| lock | an enclosed section of a canal, in which a ship may be raised or lowered by raiseing the water |
| bedrock | |
| separatism | |
| secede | |
| NAFTA | |
| customs | |
| teriff |