Chapter 15- 17 Word Scramble
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Ore | Rocky material containing a valuable mineral |
Tertiary Economic Activities | service industries |
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Ore | Rocky material containing a valuable mineral |
Tertiary Economic Activities | service industries |
Fertile | able to produce abundant crops |
Moors | broad, treeless rolling plains |
Bogs | areas of wet, spongy ground |
Glen | Narrow Valley |
Peat | Spongy material containing waterlogged mosses and plants |
Cultural divergence | Deliberate efforts to keep the cultures separate |
Blight | plant disease |
Fjord | Flooded glacial valleys |
Geothermal energy | energy produced from the heat of the earths interior |
Mixed Economies | Systems combining different degrees of government regulation |
Dialects | variations of a language that are unique to a region |
Impression | Style of painting |
Nationalized | brought understate control |
Recession | Extend decline in business activity |
Confederation | Loose political union |
Reparations | money for war damages |
Inflation | Sharply rising prices |
Lignite | soft, brown coal |
Dike | Embankments of earth and rock |
Polder | land reclaimed from the sea |
Decentralize | transfer power to smaller regions |
Canton | states |
Neutral | not taking sides in a war |
Perishable good | meaning that it does not stay fresh for long |
Strip mining | whereby mines strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare mineral deposits |
Navigable | deep and wide enough to allow ships to pass |
Dry Farming | methods that leave land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture |
Siroccos | hot dry winds from northern Africa |
Hub | central point of concentrated activity and influence |
Seismic activity | many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
Subsidence | Geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sinks |
Renaissance | period of art and learning that started in Italy in the 1300s |
Graben | Areas of land that have dropped down betweens faults |
Inhabitable | able to support permanent residents |
Tsunamis | earthquakes that caused oil lamps to overturn and set fires |
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