Chapter 14-17 Vocabulary – Flashcards
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pandemic
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prevalent throughout an entire country, continent of the whole world; epidemic over a large area
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Cultural Diffusion
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the process by which the people adopt the practices of their neighbors
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Renaissance
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the rival of art, literature, and learning that took place in europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
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Industrial Revolution
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the shift from human power to machine power``
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Summit
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the highest point of a mountain or similar elevation
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Prevailing Westerlies
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the constant flow of air form west to east in the temperate zones of the Earth
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Euro
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the common currecny used by member nations of the European union
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Compulsory
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required
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Fertile
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able to produce abundantly
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Ore
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a rocky material comtaining a vulnerable mineral
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Terciary Economic Activity
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an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others
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Moor
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broad, treeless, rolling land often poorly drained and having patches of marsh and peat bog
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Bog
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an area of wet spongey ground
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Glen
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a narrow valley
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Peat
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spongey material containing waterlogged and decaying mosses and plants sometimes dried and used as fuel
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Cultural Divergence
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the resriction of culture from outside infuences
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Blight
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a plant disease
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Fjord
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a narrow valley or inlet from the sea originally carved out by an advancin glacier and filled by melting glacial ice
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Geothermal Energy
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energy produced from the earth intense interior heat
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Mixed Economy
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a system combinging differet degrees of government regulation
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Dialect
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a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community
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Impressionism
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a style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color, light, and shadows
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Recession
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an extended decline in buisness ectivity
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Confederation
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a system of government in which individual political units keep their soveringetybut give imited power to the central government
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Reparation
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money paid for war damages
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Inflation
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a sharp, widespread rise in prices
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Lignite
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a soft brownish-black coal
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Dike
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an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water
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Polder
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an area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed form the sea
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Decentralize
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to transfer government power to smaller regions
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Canton
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a political division or state; one of the states in Switerland
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Neutral
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to bring a buisness under state control
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Perishable Good
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a product that does not stay fresh for long
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Strip Mining
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the process whereby miners strip away the surfaceof the earth to lay bare the mineral deposits
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Navigable
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deep and wide enough to allow the passage of strips
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Dry Farming
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a farming techmique that leaves land unplanted every few year in order to gather moisture
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Sirocco
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a hot, dry wind from northern africa
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Hub
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a central point of cencentrated activity influence
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Seismic Activity
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earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
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Subsidence
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a geological phenomenon in which the ground in an area sink
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Renaissance
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the rival of art, literature, and learning that took place in europe during the 14, 15, and 16 century
