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Chapter 15,16&17 Flashcards

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Ore

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Rocky material containing a valuable mineral

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Fertile

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Able to produce abundant crops

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Tertiary economic activities

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Service industries such as finance, insurance, and tourism

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Moors

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Broad, treeless rolling plains

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Bogs

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Areas of wet spongy ground

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Glen

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Narrow valley

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Peat

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Spongy material containing water logged mosses and plants

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Cultural divergence

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Deliberate efforts to keep the cultures separate

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Blight

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Plant disease

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Fjord

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Melted glaciers created flooded glacial valleys

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Geothermal energy

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Energy produced from the heat of the earths interior

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Mixed economies

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Systems combining different degrees of government regulation

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Dialects

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Variations of languages that are unique to a region or community

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Impressionism

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This school of art sought to capture fleeting visual impressions made by color light and shadows

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Nationalized

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Brought under state control

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Recession

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An extended decline in business activity

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Confederation

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Loose political union

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Reparations

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Money for war damages

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Inflation

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Sharply rising prices

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Lignite

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A soft, brown coal

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Dikes

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Embankments of earth and rock

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Polder

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Encircling a piece of land with dikes and pumping out water to make canals. Land reclaimed from the sea

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Decentralize

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Transfer power to smaller regions

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Neutral

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Not taking sides in war

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Cantons

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States

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Perishable good

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It does not stay fresh for long

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Strip mining

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Miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare mineral deposits

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Navigable

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Deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships

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Dry farming

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Leave land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture

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Siroccos

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Hot, dry winds from northern Africa

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Hub

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Central point of concentrated activity and influence

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Seismic activity

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It has many earthquakes and volcanic activity

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Subsidence

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Ground in area sinks

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Renaissance

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Great period of art and learning

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Grabens

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Areas of land that have dropped down between faults, we’re flooded

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Inhabitable

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Able to support permanent residents

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Tsunamis

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Huge wave cause primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption

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