World Geography Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Dikes | Walls or barriers to hold back water. |
| Estuary | Where part of the sea connects to the lower end of a river. |
| Westerlies | Strong winds that travel from west to east. |
| Deciduous | Forest, which includes trees such as oak, maple, beech and chestnut, that lose their leaves in autumn. |
| Coniferous | Trees, such as fir and pine trees, have cones and needle-shaped leaves, and they keep their leaves during the winter. |
| Smelting | To make bronze, people needed to know how melt and fuse tine and copper, a process. |
| Feudalism | The political and social system which kings gave land to nobles in exchange for the nobles' promise to serve them; those nobles provided military service as knights for the king. |
| Middle Ages | Medieval Age, a period of tradition between ancient and modern times. |
| Pilgrimage | A place journey to a sacred place. |
| Parliament | The national legislature of England consisting of House of Lords and the House of Commons. |
| Industrialized | Changed from an agricultural society to one based on industry. |
| Holocaust | Government-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews. |
| Postindustrial | When the economy of a country depends more on services than it does on industry. |
| Polders | The Dutch call the land they reclaim from the sea. |
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