Ch 7 & 8 Vocab
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Megalopolis | A very large city; a region made up of several large cities and their surroundings areas, considered to be a single urban complex.
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Mangrove | A tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along the coastal areas.
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Bayou | A marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or a river.
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Fall Line | Imaginary line between Appalachian Mountains and the 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 Carolina to southern California, Characterized
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Humus | The organic material that results when plants and animal that live in the soil die and decay.
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Growing Season | In farming, the average number of days between the last frost of spring and the first frost fall.
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Grain Elevator | A tall building equipped with machinery for leading, cleaning, storing, and discharging grain.
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Grain Exchange | A place where grain 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 plans can grow
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Aqueduct | A large pipe or channel designed to transport waer from a remote source over a long destance.
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Province | A territory governed as a political division of a country.
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Maritime | Bordering on or near the sea; relating to navigation or shipping.
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Lock | An enclosed section of a canal, which a ship may be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of water in that section.
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Bedrock | The solid rock underlying the earths surface.
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Separatism | A movement to win political, religious, or ethnic independence from another group.
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Customs | Fees charged by a government on imported goods.
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Tariff | A tax imposed by a government imported goods.
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NAFTA | North America Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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Secede | To withdraw formally from membership in political or religious organization.
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