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Chapter 15- 17

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Ore   Rocky material containing a valuable mineral  
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Tertiary Economic Activities   service industries  
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Ore   Rocky material containing a valuable mineral  
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Tertiary Economic Activities   service industries  
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Fertile   able to produce abundant crops  
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Moors   broad, treeless rolling plains  
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Bogs   areas of wet, spongy ground  
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Glen   Narrow Valley  
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Peat   Spongy material containing waterlogged mosses and plants  
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Cultural divergence   Deliberate efforts to keep the cultures separate  
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Blight   plant disease  
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Fjord   Flooded glacial valleys  
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Geothermal energy   energy produced from the heat of the earths interior  
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Mixed Economies   Systems combining different degrees of government regulation  
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Dialects   variations of a language that are unique to a region  
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Impression   Style of painting  
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Nationalized   brought understate control  
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Recession   Extend decline in business activity  
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Confederation   Loose political union  
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Reparations   money for war damages  
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Inflation   Sharply rising prices  
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Lignite   soft, brown coal  
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Dike   Embankments of earth and rock  
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Polder   land reclaimed from the sea  
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Decentralize   transfer power to smaller regions  
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Canton   states  
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Neutral   not taking sides in a war  
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Perishable good   meaning that it does not stay fresh for long  
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Strip mining   whereby mines strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare mineral deposits  
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Navigable   deep and wide enough to allow ships to pass  
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Dry Farming   methods that leave land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture  
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Siroccos   hot dry winds from northern Africa  
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Hub   central point of concentrated activity and influence  
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Seismic activity   many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions  
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Subsidence   Geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks  
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Renaissance   period of art and learning that started in Italy in the 1300s  
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Graben   Areas of land that have dropped down betweens faults  
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Inhabitable   able to support permanent residents  
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Tsunamis   earthquakes that caused oil lamps to overturn and set fires  
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