Chapter 7 and 8 Vocab
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megalopolis | A very large city; a region made up several large cities and their surrounding areas, considered to be a single urban complex.
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Mangrove | A tropical that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas.
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Bayou | A marshy inlet or outlet of lake or a river.
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Fall Line | Imaginary line between the Appalachians Mountains and their Atlantic coastal plain, where rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal plains.
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Sunbelt | The southern and southwestern states of the United States, from the Carolinas to southern recently, rapid population growth
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Humus | The organic material that results when plants and animals that live in the soil die and decay.
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Growing Season | In farming the average number of days between frost of spring and the first frost of fall.
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Grain Elevator | A tall building equipped with machinery for loading, cleaning, storing, and discharging grain.
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Grain Exchange | A place where grains is bought and sold as a commodity.
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Tundra | A dry, treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow
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Aqueduct | A large pipe or channel designed to transport water from remote source over a long distance.
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province | a territory governed a political division of a country
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maritime | bordering on or near the sea; relating o navigation or shipping
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lock | an enclosed sectin of a canal, in which a shipnmay be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of the water in that section
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bedrock | the solid rock underlying the earth's surface
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separatism | a movement to win political, religious, or ethnic independence from another group
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secede | to withdraw formally from membershiping a political or religious organization
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customs | fees charged by a government on imported gods
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tariff | a tax imposed by a government on imported goods
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NAFTA | North america free trade agreement, which phase out trade barriers among the united states, Canada, Mexico
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