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Geography terms Test

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Oriental
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Aryan
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Migration
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Fertile Crescent
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Hegemony
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Caste system
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Pacific Rim
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Water table
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Tsunami
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Oasis cont
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Selva
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Plate tectonics
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Plates are bonded portions of the earth's mantle and crust, averaging 60 m/100 km in thickness. More than a dozen such plates exist, most of continental proportions, and they are in motion. Where they meet one slides under the other, crumpling the surfa
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far-flung group of countries and parts of countries extending clockwise on the map from New Zealand to Chile sharing the following criteria 1 they face the Pacific 2 they evince relatively high levels of economic development, industrialization, and u
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root of this word is the Latin for mixed; it means a person of mixed white and
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Crescent-shaped zone of productive lands extending from the southeastern Mediterranean coast through Lebanon and Syria to the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia (in Iraq). Once more fertile than today, this is one of the world's great source areas of ag
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The transformation of a hillside or mountain slope into a step-like sequence of horizontal fields for intensive cultivation
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A person of mixed African (black) and European (white) ancestry.@
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the political dominance of a country (or even a region) by another country. The former Soviet Union's postwar grip on Eastern Europe, which lasted from 1945-1990, was a classic example.
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A change in residence intended to be permanent, See also forced, internal
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A journey to a place of great religious significance by an individual or by a group of people (ex.: Mecca for the Muslims).
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when precipitation falls on soil, some of the water is drawn downward through pores in the soil and rock under force of gravity Below the surface it reaches a level where it can go no further then it joins water already saturated the rock completely.
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Pronounced kee. A low-lying small island usually composed of coral and sand. Often part of an island chain such as the Florida Keys or the Bahamas archipelago.
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tropical rainforest
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the widening mouth of a river as it reaches the sea. An estuary forms when the
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New name for the western Pacific Rim where a significant regional realignment is now taking place. Includes rapidly-developing countries and parts of countries and parts if countries lining the Pacific from Japan's Hokkaido in the north to New Zealand
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the root of the word oriental is from the Latin for rise. Thus it has to do with the direction in which one sees the sun rise the east: oriental therefore means eastern (Asians)@
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The strict social segregation of people-specifically in India's Hindu society -on the basis of ancestry and occupation.
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A seismic (earthquake-generated) sea wave that can attain gigantic proportions arid cause coastal devastation.
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It may also encompass a densely populated corridor along a major river where river
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literally, "country behind," a term that applies to a surrounding area served by an urban center. That center is the focus of goods and services, produced for its hinterland and is its dominant urban influence as well. In the case of a port City, the
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From the Sanskrit Arya(noble)a named applied to an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language and who moved into Northern India from the Northwest. Although a language -related term, Aryan has assumed additional meanings, especially racial ones.
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Most definitions now tend to refer to a group of tightly-knit people
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a combination of gradational forces that shape the earth’s surface landforms, running water, wind action, and the force of moving Ice combine to war away soil and rock. Human activities often speed erosional processes. Such as through the destruction of n
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a comparatively narrow, finger-like stretch of land extending from the main landmass into the sea. Ex: Florida and Korea
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occidental originates from the Latin for Fall or the setting of the sun in the west: occidental therefore means western.(Europeans etc)@
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Lines of latitude are aligned east-west across the globe, from 0° latitude at the equator to 90° north and south latitude at the poles. Areas of low latitude, therefore, lie near the equator in the tropics; high latitudes are those in the north polar (Ar
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Strictly speaking, this refers to study of the many interrelationships between all forms of life and the natural environments in which they have evolved and continues to develop.@
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Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact
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importance to geographers that means, literally, to be in. contact with, adjoining, or adjacent. Sometimes we hear the continental (conterminous) United State minus Alaska referred to as contiguous. Alaska is not contiguous to these "lower 48" states Beca
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The habitable portions of the earth's surface where permanent human settlements
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by international agreement, the nautical mile-- the standard measure at sea is,

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