vocab

Question 1

The shift from human power to machine power

Answer 1

industrial revolution

Question 2

The highest point of the mountain

Answer 2

summit

Question 3

The constant flow of air from west to east in the temperate zones of the earth

Answer 3

prevailing westerlies

Question 4

The common currency used by member nations of the European Union

Answer 4

euro

Question 5

A rocky material containing a valuable minera

Answer 5

ore

Question 6

broad treeless rolling land often poorly drained having patches of mouth and peat

Answer 6

Moore

Question 7

an area of wet spongy ground

Answer 7

bog

Question 8

a narrow valley

Answer 8

glen

Question 9

sponge material containing waterlogged and the king mosses sometimes dried and used as fuel

Answer 9

Peat

Question 10

a plant disease

Answer 10

blight

Question 11

I style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by colors light and shadows

Answer 11

Impressionism

Question 12

to bring a business under state control

Answer 12

recession

Question 13

A system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government

Answer 13

confederation

Question 14

money paid for war damages

Answer 14

reparation

Question 15

a sharp, widespread rise in prices

Answer 15

inflation

Question 16

a soft, brownish black coal

Answer 16

lignite

Question 17

an embankment made of rock meant to hold back water

Answer 17

dike

Question 18

an area of low lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea

Answer 18

polder

Question 19

to transfer government power to smaller regions

Answer 19

decentralize

Question 20

a political division or state

Answer 20

canton

Question 21

the process whereby miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare mineral deposits

Answer 21

strip mining

Question 22

a farming technique that leaves land unplanned every few years in order to gather moisture

Answer 22

dry farming

Question 23

hot dry wind from Northern Africa

Answer 23

sirocco

Question 24

a central point of concentrated activity and influence

Answer 24

hub

Question 25

earthquakes and volcano eruptions

Answer 25

seismic activity

Question 26

the ground in an area sinks

Answer 26

subsidence

Question 27

revival at art, literature and learning

Answer 27

Renaissance

Question 28

long, narrow area that has dropped between two faults

Answer 28

graben

Question 29

aid to support permanent residents

Answer 29

inhabitable