Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Chapter 14-17 Vocab

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
Cultural Diffusion   show
🗑
show The revival of art, literature, and learning that took place in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries  
🗑
Industrial Revolution   show
🗑
show The highest point of a mountain or similar elevation  
🗑
Prevailing Westerlies   show
🗑
show The common currency used by member nations of the European Union  
🗑
Compulsory   show
🗑
show Able to produce abundantly  
🗑
Ore   show
🗑
show An economic activity in which people do no directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others; service industry  
🗑
Moor   show
🗑
Bog   show
🗑
show A narrow valley  
🗑
show Spongy material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants, sometimes dried and used as fuel  
🗑
Cultural Divergence   show
🗑
show A plant disease  
🗑
show A narrow valley or inlet from the sea, originally carved out by and advancing glacier and filled by melting glacial ice  
🗑
show Energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat  
🗑
Mixed Economy   show
🗑
show A variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community  
🗑
Impressionism   show
🗑
show To bring business under state control  
🗑
Recession   show
🗑
Confederation   show
🗑
show Money paid for war damages  
🗑
Inflation   show
🗑
show A soft, brownish-black coal  
🗑
show An embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water  
🗑
show An area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea  
🗑
Decentralize   show
🗑
Canton   show
🗑
Neutral   show
🗑
show A product that does not stay fresh for long  
🗑
show The process whereby miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits  
🗑
show Deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships  
🗑
show A farming technique hat leave land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture  
🗑
Sirocco   show
🗑
Hub   show
🗑
Seismic Activity   show
🗑
show A geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks  
🗑
show A long, narrow area that has dropped between two faults  
🗑
Inhabitable   show
🗑
show A huge wave caused primarily by disturbance beneath the ocean, such as an earthquake or a volcanic eruption  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: laceyterry
Popular Geography sets