Geography Vocabulary For Mid-Term
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- federal republic
- government divided between national and state powers
- rural
- area in the countryside
- prairie
- rolling, inland grassy area with very fertile soil
- terraced field
- strips of land cut out of a hillside like stair steps so the land can hold water and be used for farming
- consumer goods
- household products, clothing, and other goods people buy to use for themselves
- tungsten
- metal used in electrical equipment
- landfill
- area where trash companies dump the waste they collect
- free trade
- taking down barriers so that goods flow freely among countries
- peninsula
- piece of land with water on three sides
- tundra
- vast rolling treeless plain in high latitude climates in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in the summer
- colony
- overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country
- democracy
- form of government in which citizens choose the nation's leaders by voting for them
- cordillera
- group of mountain ranges that run side by side
- secede
- to withdraw from a national government
- immigrant
- person who moces to a new country to make a permanent home
- newsprint
- type of paper used for printing newspapers
- steppe
- partly dry grassland often found on the edges of a desert
- fossil fuel
- coal, oil, or natural gas
- glacier
- giant slow-moving sheets of ice
- yurt
- large circle shaped tent made of animal skins that can be packed up and moved from place to place
- megalopolis
- pattern of heavy urban settlement ocer a large area
- service industry
- businessthat provides services to people instead of producing goods
- navigable
- describes a body of water wide and deep enough to allow the passage of ships
- recycling
- reusin materials instead of throwing them out
- dike
- high banks of soil built along rivers to control floods
- coral reef
- structure at or near the water's surface formed by the skeletons of small sea animals
- prime minister
- official who heads the government in a parliamentary democracy
- suburb
- smaller comunity that surrounds a city
- calligraphy
- art of beautiful writing
- dominion
- self-governing nation that accepts the British monarch as head of state
- national park
- area set aside to protect wilderness and wildlife and for reaction
- parliamentary democracy
- government in which voters elect representatives to a law-making body, which chooses a prime minister to head the government
- empire
- group of lands under one ruler
- urban
- area in the city
- communist state
- a country whose government has strong control ovr the economy and society as a whole
- dynasty
- line of rulers from the same family
- contiguous
- areas that are joined together inside a common boundary
- acid rain
- rain containing high amounts of chemical pollutants
- nomad
- people who move from place to place with herds of animals
- pagoda
- Buddhist temples with many-storied towers
- fault
- a crack in the earth's crust
- province
- regional political division similar to states
- ethnic group
- people who share a common culture, language, or history
- invest
- to put money into a business
- exile
- inability to live in one's own country because of political beliefs
- loess
- fertile, yellow-gray soil deposited by wind and water
- billingual
- referring to a country that has two official languages
- human rights
- basic freedoms and rights that all people should enjoy
- typhoon
- a name for a hurricane in Asia
- high-technology industry
- industry that produces computers and other kinds of electronic equipment
- free enterprise system
- economic system in which people start and run businesseswith limited government intervention