WG - Unit 2 Terms
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- Prairie
- an inland grassland area
- Jazz
- musical form that developed in the United States in the early 1900s, blending African rhythms and European harmonies
- Tributary
- smaller river or stream that feeds into a larger river
- Blizzard
- a snowstorm with winds more than 35 miles per hour, temperatures below freezing, and visibility of less than 500 feet for 3 hours or more
- Monopoly
- total control of a type of industry by one person or one company
- Parliament
- in Canada, national legislature made up of the Senate and the House of Commons
- Pipeline
- long network of underground or aboveground pipes
- Market economy
- an economic system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned, and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
- Literacy rate
- the percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
- Mobility
- able to move from place to place
- Supercells
- violent thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes
- Clear-cutting
- cutting down whole forests when removing timber
- Republic
- form of government without a monarch in which people elect their officials
- Hurricane
- a large, powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
- Fishery
- areas (freshwater or saltwater) in which fish or sea animals are caught
- Dominion
- a partially self-governing country with close ties to another country
- Dry farming
- farming method used in dry regions in which land is plowed and planted deeply to hold water in the soil
- Acid rain
- precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damage buildings, forests, and crops, and kills wildlife
- Trade surplus
- earning more money from export sales than spending for imports
- Sunbelt
- mild climate region, southern United States
- Divide
- a high point or ridge that determines the direction rivers flow
- Bill of Rights
- the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
- Cabinet
- heads of departments in the U.S. government who advise the president
- Commodity
- goods produced for sale
- Timberline
- elevation about which it is too cold for trees to grow
- Amendment
- in U.S. history, official changes made to the Constitution
- Socioeconomic status
- Level of income and education
- Immigration
- the movement of people into one country from another
- Tariff
- a tax on imports or exports
- Bilingual
- Speaking or using two languages
- Trade deficit
- spending more money on imports than earning from exports
- Constitution
- plan of government made for the United States in 1787
- Groundwater
- water within the earth that supplies wells and springs
- Chinook
- seasonal warm wind that blows down the Rockies in late winter and early spring
- Headwaters
- the source of river waters
- Retooling
- converting old factories for use in new industries
- Smog
- haze caused by the interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation with chemical fumes from automobile exhausts and other pollution sources
- Underground Railroad
- an informal network of safehouses, in the United States, that helped thousands of enslaved people to escape to freedom
- Fall Line
- a boundary in the eastern United States where the higher land of the Piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic coastal plain
- Megalopolis
- a "super-city" that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
- Suburb
- outlying communities around a city
- Native American
- North America's first immigrant, who probably moved into the region from Asia thousands of years ago
- Urbanization
- the movement of people from rural areas into cities
- Post-industrial
- an economy with less emphasis on heavy industry and manufacturing and more emphasis on services and technology
- Metropolitan Area
- region that includes a central city and its sorrounding areas
- Eutrophication
- process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients, leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
- Patriotism
- love for or devotion to one's country