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world geography

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cultural diffusion   the process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors.  
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renaissance   the revival of art, literature,and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth,and sixteenth centuries.  
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industrial revolution   the shift from human power to machine power.  
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summit   the highest point of a mountain or similar elevation.  
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prevailing westerlies   the constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth.  
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euro   the common currency used by member nations of the European Union  
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compulsory   Required  
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fertile   able to produce abundantly  
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ore   a rocky material containing a valuable mineral  
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tertiary economic activity   an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but persue activities that serve others; service industry  
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moor   broad, treeless, rolling land, often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog  
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bog   an area of wet, spongy ground  
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glen   a narrow valley  
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peat   spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used as fuel  
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cultural divergence   the restriction of a culture from outside influences  
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blight   a plant disease  
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fjord   a narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by an advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice  
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geothermal energy   energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat  
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mixed economy   a system combining different degrees of government regulation  
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