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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cultural diffusion | the process by which people adopt the practices of their |
| renaissance | meaning rebirth |
| industrial revolution | the shift from human power to machines power |
| summits | highest points of the alps contrast with the flat North European Plain |
| physical processes | over time what may happen to this sea stack |
| economic activities | how does this photograph suggest that the North European Plain is an important agricultural region |
| physical characteristics | name three other mountain ranges in Europe |
| 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 |
| fjord | a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice |
| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earths 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 y 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 |
| prevailing westerlies | the constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth |
| ecosystems | the interaction of plant life animal life and the physical environment in which they live |
| urbanization | the growth of city populations |
| navigable | that is deep and wide enough to allow ships to pass |
| dry farming | methods that leave land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture |
| sirocco | or hot dry winds from northern Africa blow over this area |
| hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence of new transportation routes |
| seismic activity | it has many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
| subsidence | a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks |
| renaissance | the revival of art literature and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth fifteenth and sixteenth centuries |
| graben | areas of land that have dropped down between faults were flooded |
| inhabitable | able to support permanent residents |
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