World Geography FINAL EXAM VOCAB
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- fjord
- steep U-shaped valleys that connect to the sea and that filled w/ seawater after glaciers melted
- upland
- hill or very low mountains that contain mesas and high plateaus
- peat
- decayed plant matter found in bogs
- mistral
- cold, dry wind from the north
- sirocco
- hot, steady south wind that blows from North Africa across the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe
- dike
- earthen bank holding back the North Sea
- polder
- land reclaimed by diking and draining
- seawork
- structure used to control the sea's destructive impact
- terpen
- high earthern platforms used in seaworks
- Ijsselmeer
- freshwater lake separated from the North Sea by a dike and bordered by polders
- city-state
- political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands
- republic
- government in which citizens elect representatives to rule in their name
- aqueducts
- structures that carried water for long distances
- parliament
- representative lawmaking body whose members are elected/appointed
- cultural crossroads
- place where various cultures cross paths
- balkanization
- process of a region breaking up into small, mutually hostile units
- satellite nations
- nations dominated by another country
- folk art
- art produced by rural people w/ traditional lifestyles instead of by professional artists
- chernozem
- black earth
- continentality
- a region's distance from the moderating influence of the sea
- nation
- group of people w/ a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity
- suburb
- political unit touching the borders of the central city or touching other suburbs that touch the city
- urbanization
- dramatic rise in the number of cities and the changes in lifestyle that result
- urban sprawl
- poorly planned development that spreads a city's population over a wider and wider geographic area