Chapter 15,16&17 Flashcards
Ore
Rocky material containing a valuable mineral
Fertile
Able to produce abundant crops
Tertiary economic activities
Service industries such as finance, insurance, and tourism
Moors
Broad, treeless rolling plains
Bogs
Areas of wet spongy ground
Glen
Narrow valley
Peat
Spongy material containing water logged mosses and plants
Cultural divergence
Deliberate efforts to keep the cultures separate
Blight
Plant disease
Fjord
Melted glaciers created 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 languages that are unique to a region or community
Impressionism
This school of art sought to capture fleeting visual impressions made by color light and shadows
Nationalized
Brought under state control
Recession
An extended decline in business activity
Confederation
Loose political union
Reparations
Money for war damages
Inflation
Sharply rising prices
Lignite
A soft, brown coal
Dikes
Embankments of earth and rock
Polder
Encircling a piece of land with dikes and pumping out water to make canals. Land reclaimed from the sea
Decentralize
Transfer power to smaller regions
Neutral
Not taking sides in war
Cantons
States
Perishable good
It does not stay fresh for long
Strip mining
Miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare mineral deposits
Navigable
Deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships
Dry farming
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
It has many earthquakes and volcanic activity
Subsidence
Ground in area sinks
Renaissance
Great period of art and learning
Grabens
Areas of land that have dropped down between faults, we’re flooded
Inhabitable
Able to support permanent residents
Tsunamis
Huge wave cause primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption
