worldgeo14 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
megalopolis | a large city a region made up of several large cities and thier surrounding areas considered to be a single urban complex |
mangrove | a tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along costal areas |
bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or a river |
fall lines | imaginy line between the appalachian mountians and the atlantic costal plain where rivers and streams from waterfall and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal plain |
sunbelt | the southern and southwestern states of the united states from the caorlinas to southren california characterized by a warm climate and recently rapid population growth |
humus | the organic material that results when plantes and animals that live in the soil die and decay |
growing season | in farming the average number of days between the last frost of spring and the first frost of fall |
grain exchange | a place where grain is bought and sold as a commodity |
grain elevate | a tall building equipped with michinery for loading cleaning storing and discharging |
tundra | a dry treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow |
aqueduct | a large pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source over a long distance |
province | a territory governed as a political divison of a country |
martime | bordeing on or near the relating to navigation or shipping |
lock | an enclosed section of a canal in which a ship may be raised or lowered by raising or lowering the level of the water in that section |
bedrock | the solid rock underlying the earths surface |
separatism | a movement to win political religons or ethnic independence from another group |
secede | to withdraw formally from membership political or religions organization |
customs | fees charged by a government on imported goods |
tariff | a tax imposed by a government on imported goods |
NAFTA | north america free trade agreement which phased out trades barriers among the united states canada and mexico |
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