Vocabulary Flashcards
A person who makes maps
Cartographer
An order of law
Ordinance
A square section of land in the northwest territory measuring 6miles on each side;Meath township was divided into 36 smaller squares of land to be sold to settlers
Township
A very tall steel-framed building
Skyscraper
A rice field
Paddy
A line of workers and machines along which a product moves as it is put together one step at a time
Assembly line
Rock that contains enough of one or more kinds of minerals to be mined
Ore
Goods that are transported
Freight
To measure, especially land
Survey
Something that happens because of an earlier action
Consequence
The land beyond the settled part of a country
Frontier
Identical copies of parts made by machines so that if one part breaks, in identical one can be installed
Interchangeable parts
A flat-bottomed boat with pointed ends and sometimes a sail, which can go against the rivers current
Keelboat
A way of manufacturing in which many items that are identical can be made quickly and cheaply
Mass production
The movement of many people who leave one country or region to settle in another
Migration
