vocab Flashcards
The shift from human power to machine power
industrial revolution
The highest point of the mountain
summit
The constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth
prevailing westerlies
The common currency used by member nations of the European Union
euro
A rocky material containing a valuable minera
ore
broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained having patches of mouth and peat
Moore
an area of wet spongy ground
bog
a narrow valley
glen
sponge material containing waterlogged and the king mosses sometimes dried and used as fuel
Peat
a plant disease
blight
I style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by colors light and shadows
Impressionism
to bring a business under state control
recession
A system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government
confederation
money paid for war damages
reparation
a sharp, widespread rise in prices
inflation
a soft, brownish black coal
lignite
an embankment made of rock meant to hold back water
dike
an area of low lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea
polder
to transfer government power to smaller regions
decentralize
a political division or state
canton
the process whereby miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare mineral deposits
strip mining
a farming technique that leaves land unplanned every few years in order to gather moisture
dry farming
hot dry wind from Northern Africa
sirocco
a central point of concentrated activity and influence
hub
