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Ch. 14-17 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cultural diffusion | The process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors |
| Renaissance | The revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries |
| Industrial Revolution | The shift from human power to machine power |
| summit | The highest point of a mountain or similar elevation |
| prevailing westerlies | The constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth |
| euro | The common currency used by member nations of the European Union |
| compulsory | Required |
| fertile | Able to produce abundantly |
| ore | A rocky material containing a valuable mineral |
| tertiary economic activity | An economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others; service industry |
| moor | Broad, treeless, rolling land, often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog |
| bog | An area of wet, spongy ground |
| glen | A narrow valley |
| peat | spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used as fuel |
| cultural divergence | The restriction of a culture from outside influences |
| blight | A plant disease |
| fjord | A narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacier ice |
| geothermal energy | Energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat |
| mixed economy | A system combining different degrees of government regulation |
| dialect | A variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community |
| Impressionism | A style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color, light, and shadows |
| nationalize | To bring a business under state control |
| recession | An extended decline in business activity |
| confederation | A system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
| reparation | Money paid for war damages |
| inflation | A sharp, widespread rise in prices |
| lignite | A soft, brownish-black coal |
| dike | An embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water |
| polder | An area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea |
| decentralize | To transfer government power to smaller regions |
| canton | A political division or state; one of the states in Switzerland |
| neutral | Not taking sides in a war |
| perishable good | A product that does not stay fresh for long |
| strip mining | The process whereby miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits |
| navigable | Deep and wide enough enough to allow the passage of ships |
| dry farming | A farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture |
| sirocco | A hot, dry wind from northern Africa |
| hub | A central point of concentrated activity and influence |
| seismic activity | Earthquakes and and volcanic eruptions |
| subsidence | A geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks |
| graben | A long, narrow area that has dropped in between two faults |
| inhabitable | Able to support permanent residents |
| tsunami | A huge wave caused primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as an earthquake or a volcanic eruption |
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