Global- - final 2
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- forage
- food for grazing animals
- secondary acticities
- an economic acticity in which people use raw materials to produce or manufacture new products or greater value
- apartheid
- formerly in rep. of South Africa, policy of strict racial segragation
- peidmont
- a region of rolling foothills in the Southern grassland countries
- mantle
- a thick layer of mostly solid rock beneath the earth's crus that surrounds the earth's core
- militia
- a citizen army
- drainage basin
- the entire area of land that is drained by a major river and its tributaries (US&canada border)
- favela
- a slum community in a Brazilian city
- escarpment
- a steep cliff that seperates two level areas of differing elevations
- dialect
- a variation of a spoken language that is unique to a region or community
- poaching
- illegal hunting. endangers wildlife
- mandate
- a comission from the League of Nations authorizing a nation to govern a territory; land being governed by an outside power ex: Syria
- moraine
- a ridgelike mass of rock, gravel, sand, and clay carried aand deposited by a glacier
- savanna
- a tropical grassland with scattered trees, located in warm lands near the equator
- rain shadow
- an area of reduces rainfall on the leeward side of high mountains
- weather
- condition of the bottom of earth's atmosphere in one place in a short period of time
- leaching
- dissolving and washing away of nutrients in the soil
- lithosphere
- surface featres of the earth, including soi, rocks, and landforms
- fundamentalism
- a set of religious beleifs based on a strict interpretation of a sacred text
- agricultural revolution
- change from nomadic hunting and gathering to farming that took place about 8000 BC ex: fertile cresent, Asia
- paramos
- a plateau in Andes of Ecuador
- releif
- differences in elevation of the landforms in a particular area
- coral (island)
- an island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and seiment piling on top of them
- ejido
- farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community ex: Mexico
- cultural divergence
- restriction of a culture from outside influences
- tertiary activitiess
- people don't directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activites that serve others; service industry ex: police
- sinkhole
- a hole formed when limestone is dissolvedm causing the land above to collapse. (yucatan peninsula)
- bazaar
- an open-air market; a street lined with shops and stalls ex:Egypt
- infrastructure
- the basic support facilities of a community or country, such as roads and bridges, power plants, and schools
- yurt
- a round tent made of a wooden framework and covered with felt or skins
- llanos
- a grassy plain in Venezuela
- subsistence farming
- farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or village. Mostly in delveloping countries
- caravan
- a large group of merchants who join together to travel in safety in North Africa
- tributary
- a river or stream that flows into a large river
- ecotourism
- tourism that encourages environmental awareness and little effect on the ecosystem
- souk
- a market in an Arab community
- landlocked
- almost or entirely surrounded by land; cut off from the sea
- sediment
- particles of soil, sand, and gravel carried and deposited by wind and water
- nomadic herding
- practice of moving plocks to different pastures throughout the year
- guerilla
- a member of an armed force that is not part of a regular army; relating to a form of warfare carried on by such an independent armed force
- herbivore
- a plant-eating animal
- migrant worker
- a worker who travels from place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops
- genocide
- the systematic killing or intentional destruction of a people
- democracy
- a system of government in which the people are invested with the power to choose their leaders and determine government policy
- enclave
- a country completly surrounded by another country ex: Lesotho
- segragation
- the seperation of the races
- mechanical weathering
- breaking up of rock by forces such as roots and ice
- coup
- the sudden overthrow of a ruler or government, often involving violent force or threat of force
- cautillo
- a Latin american military dictator
- capital
- wealth in the form of money or property that is owned or used in business
- bauxite
- a mineral used in making aluminum (Guiannas)
- World Bank
- agency of UN that provides loans to other countries for development ex: Nigeria
- collective farm
- a government-owned farm managed by workers who share the profis from their produce
- leeward
- facing away from the wind
- resevoir
- a natural or artificial lake used to collect water for human needs
- suburb
- a residential area outside a central city
- tropical storm
- a storm with winds of at least 39 miles per hour
- cay
- a small, low island or coral reef (islands in the caribean sea)
- monotheism
- the beleif in one God
- gasohol
- a fuel micture of gasoline and ethanol (Brazil)
- autonomy
- independence from another group of people ex: Georgia
- fertile
- able to produce abundantly
- shift agriculture
- practice of farming a site until the soil is exausted, then moving onto a new site ex: Sahel
- medina
- the old section of a North African city, usually centered around a mosque
- villagization
- a political movement by which rural people are frced to move to towns and work on collective farms. like in Tanzania
- sovereignty
- a country's freedom and power to decide on policies and actions