ch.7&8 vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Megalopolis | A very large city,a region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas, consider ti be single urban complex. |
Mangrove | A tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas. |
Bayou | A marshy inlet or outlet of lake or a river. |
Fall line | Imaginary line between the appalachian moutains and the atlantic coastal plain, where rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as they desend from higher elevation to the coastal plain. |
Sunbelt | the southern and the southwestern states of the untied states, from carolinas to southern california, characterized by warm climate and recently, rapid population growth. |
Humus | the organic material that results when plants and animals that live in the soil die and decay. |
Growing season | In farming the average number of days between that last frost of spring and the first frost of fall. |
Grain elevator | A tall building equipped with machinery for loading cleaning storing and discharging grain. |
Grain exchange | A place where grain is bought and sold as a commodity. |
Tundra | A dry, treeless plain where temperature 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 division of a country. |
maritime | bordering on or near the sea 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 earth's surface. |
separatism | a movement to win political, religious, or ethic independence from another group. |
secede | to withdraw formally from membership on a political or religious organization. |
customs | fees charged by government on imported goods. |
tariff | a tax imposed by government on imported goods. |
NAFTA | north american free trade agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the united states, canada, mexico. |
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