7-5 Petersen: Unit 2 Ch.4-5 (The U.S. and Canada)
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| contiguous | joined together or touching inside a common boundry
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| megalopolis | a huge uraban area
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| coral reef | a submerged ridge of coral formed by the skeletons of small sea animals in the ocean
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| free enterprise system | economic system in which people start and run businesses with limited government intervention
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| service industry | a business that provides services to people instead of producing goods
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| navigble | wide and deep enough to allow the passage of ships
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| fossil fuels | coal, oil, or natural gas used as power
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| acid rain | rain containing huge amounts of chemical pollutants
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| landfill | the areas where trash companies dump the waste they collect
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| recycling | reusing materials instead of throwing them out
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| free trade | taking down trade barriers so that goos flow freely amoung countries
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| colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country
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| representative democracy | a government in which voters choose leaders who make and enforce laws
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| federal republic | government in which powere is divided between the national government and the state government
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| secede | withdraw from a group
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| immigrants | people who move to a new country to make a new home
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| rural | countryside, farm areas
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| urban | city dwellers
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| suburb | smaller city that surrounds a city
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| provinces | regional political divisions
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| glacier | giant, slowly moving ice
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| tundra | huge, rolling, treeless plains in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in the summer
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| prairie | rolling, inland grassy area with fertile soil
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| cordillera | group of mountain ranges that run side by side
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| newsprint | thin paper used for printing newspapers
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| dominion | self governing nation that accepts the British monarch as head of state
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| parlimentary democracy | voters elect representatives
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| prime minister | the official head of a government
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| bilingual | speaking two languages
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| autonomy | the group's right to govern itself
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