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Chapter 8 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| colonies | territories controlled by the people from a foreign land. |
| plantations | large farms that produce one major crop often for exports. |
| bilingual | people who can speak two languages |
| textiles | cloth products |
| metropolitan area | is a city and its surrounding built-up areas. |
| arable | fit for growing crops |
| smog | chemical reactions involving sunlight and pollutants from automobiles and industries. |
| gentrification | process of buying run-down homes in older areas of a community and restoring them. |
| trade deficit | a situation in which the value of a country's exports is less than the value of the country's imports. |
| superpower | a huge powerful country. |