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ch 14-17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cultural diffusion | procces by which people adopt the practice of their neighbor |
| industrial revolution | shift from human power to mechan power |
| renaissance | revail of art literature and learming that took place to europe during the fourteenth fifteenth, and sixthteenths |
| summits | highest point if a mountian |
| euro | common currency used by member nations of the European |
| compulsory | required |
| fertile `` | able to produce abundantly |
| ore | rocky material containing valuable mineral |
| tertiary economic activity | enonomic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw material but pursue ativities that serve others aervious industrys |
| moor | broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained and having patches or marsh and peat bog |
| bog | area of a wet, spongy ground |
| glen | a narrow valley |
| peat | spongy material contaning waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used fuel |
| cultural divergence | process by which people adopt the practice of their neighbors |
| blight | plant decease |
| fjord | narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting ice |
| geothermal energy | energy produced from he earth's intence interior heat |
| mixed economy | system combining different degrees of government regulation |
| navigable | deep and wide 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 | hot dry wind from northern Africa |
| hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence |
| seismic activity | earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
| subsidence | geologic phenomenon in which the ground in the area sinks |
| Renaissance | revival of art literature and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth century |
| graben | a long narrow area that has dropped between two fults |
| inhabitable | able to support permanent resident |
| tsunami | huge wave caused primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as the earthquake or a volcanic eruption |
| dike | an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water |
| polder | area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea |
| decentralize | to transfer government power to smaller regions |
| confederation | system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
| reparation | money paid for war damage |
| inflation | a sharp widespread rise in prices |
| lignite | a soft brownish-black coal |
| dialect | a variation of a spoken language that is unique to region or community |
| impressionism | a style of art where the painters try to catch visual impression made by color, shadows, and light |
| nationalize | to bring a business under state control |
| recession | extended decline in business activity |
| canton | a political division or state one of the states in Switzerland |
| neutral | not taking sides in war |
| perishable good | product that does not stay fresh for long |
| strip mining | process whereby miners strip away surface of the earth to lay bare in the mineral deposits |
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