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RL - Chpt. 4
World Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| contiguous | joined together inside a common boundary |
| megalopolis | huge urban area made up of cities and suburbs that form a continuous line of settlement |
| coral reef | islands formed by the skeletons of small sea animals |
| free enterprise system | idea that individual people have the right to run businesses to make a profit |
| service industry | a business that services to people instead of producing goods |
| navigable | wide and deep enough to allow the passage of ships |
| fossil fuel | coal, oil and natural gas burned to power factories and cars |
| acid rain | rain containing high amounts of chemical pollutants |
| landfill | areas where trash companies dump their waste they collect |
| recycling | reusing materials instead of throwing them out |
| free trade | taking down trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas so that goods flow freely among countries |
| colony | overseas settlements tied to a parent country |
| representative democracy | voters chose leaders who make and enforce the laws |
| federal republic | form of government in which power is divided between the national government and the state governments |
| secede | withdraw from the national government |
| immigrant | people who move to a new country to make a permanent home |
| rural | countryside areas |
| urban | city dwellers |
| suburb | smaller communities surrounding a larger city |
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