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GEO chapter 5
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mormon | A member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| Dust Bowl | The Southern Great Plains during the severe drought of the 1930's |
| Topsoil | The fertile soil that crops depend on to grow |
| Agribusiness | An industry based on huge farms that rely on machines and mass production methods |
| Aerospace | The industry that makes vehicles that travel in the air and in outer space |
| Nomadic | A person who lives by moving from place to place to follow and hunt herds of migrating animals or to lead herds of grazing animals to fresh pastures |
| Pueblo | A town built by the Pueblo people in the American Southwest |
| Mission | A Catholic based community in the West |
| Frontier | A region just beyond the edge of a settled area |
| Manifest Destiny | The idea that it was the right of Americans to expand Westward to the Pacific Ocean |
| Annex | To declare ownership of a area |
| Extinct | Describing a particular kind of plant or animal that has disappeared completely from Earth |
| Reservation | An area of land that has been set aside for Native Americans |
| Cordillera | A region of parallel mountain chains |
| Timberline | The elevation above which it is too cold for trees to grow |
| Contiguous | Joined together inside a common boundary |
| Continental Divide | An imaginary line through the Rocky Mountains that separates rivers that flow west from rivers that flow east |
| Irrigation | The process of collecting water and using it to water crops |
| Chinook | A dry wind that sometimes blows over the Great Plains in winter. |
| Ethanol | A liquid fuel made in parts from plants |
| National Park | A park that has been set aside for the public to enjoy for it's great natural beauty |