world geo unit 4
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- refugee
- person who must leave his or her home and flee elsewhere for safety
- chaparral
- type of vegetation made up of dense forests of shrubs and short trees, common in Mediterranean climates
- dialect
- local form of a langauage used in a particular place or by a certain group
- environmentalist
- perosn actively concerned with the quality an protection fo the environment
- heavy industry
- the manufacture of machinery and equipment needed for factories and mines
- sirocco
- hot desert wind that can blow air and dust from North Africa to western Europe's Mediterranean coast
- peat
- vegetable matter usually found in swamps; sometimes cut and burned as fuel in parts of western Europe
- fjord
- long, steep-sided glacial valley now filled by seawater
- foehn
- warm dry wind that blows from the leeward side of mountains, sometimes melting snow and causing an avalanche
- collective farm
- under communism, a large, state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits
- romanticism
- artistic style emphasizing individual emotions that developed in Europe in the late 1700s and early 1800s as a reation to industrialization
- permafrost
- permantly frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground
- cold war
- refers to the power struggle between the soviet union an dthe united states
- acid rain
- precipitation carrying large amounts of pollution
- communism
- social and political movement developed by Marx and Lenin that favored revolution to establish a classless society in which workers would control industrial production
- light industry
- manufacturing aimed at making consumer goods, such as textiles or food processing
- welfare state
- nation in which got assumes major responsibility for peoples welfair in areas such as health and education
- biologist
- scientist who studies plant and animal life
- mixed farming
- raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
- polder
- low lying area of the netherlands from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
- consumer goods
- household goods, shoes, and clothing that individuals buy
- farm cooperative
- organization in which farmers share in growing and selling farm products
- holocaust
- term given to the mass killings of 6 million European Jews by Germany's Nazi leaders during World War II
- impressionism
- artistic style that developed in Europe in the late 1800s and tried to show the natural appearance of objects with dabs or strokes of color
- realism
- artistic style portraying everyday life that developed in Europe during the mid-1800s
- language family
- group of reltated languages that have all eveloped from one earlier language
- acid desposition
- wet or dry airborne acids that fall on the earth
- meltwater
- water formed by melting snow and ice
- feudalism
- system of govt in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
- mistral
- strong northerly wind from the Alps that can bring cold air to southern france
- organic farming
- the use of natural substances to enrich the soil and grow crops rather than chemical fertilizers and pesticides
- state farm
- under communism, a state-owned farm managed by govt officials
- crusades
- sereies of religious wars in which European Christians tried to retake palestine from muslim rule
- city-state
- in ancient Greece, independent community consisting of a city and the surroounding lands, where democracy first developed
- avalanche
- mass of ice, snow, or rock that slides down a mountain side
- reformation
- religious movement that began in Germany in the 1400s, leading to the establishment of protestant churches
- tariff
- a tax on imports or exports