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- funtional region
- a group of places connected by movements for example, the region drained by the Amazon River and tributaries
- embargo
- a severe restriction of trade with other countries
- biosphere
- the world of plants, animals, and other living thins in earth's land and waters
- GDP
- total value of goods and services produced within a country in a year, divided by country's population
- earthquake
- a shaking of the ground caused by sudden movements in the earth's crust
- conquistador
- name for the spanish explorers who claimed land in America for Spain
- command economy
- an economic system that is controlled by a single central government
- anarchy
- political disorder and violence; lawlessness
- land degradation
- reduction in productive potential of land
- canopy
- the uppermost layer of the forest whre tree branches meet
- windward
- facing the wind
- cultural diffusioin
- the process by which people adopt the practices of their neighbors
- National Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- no trade barriors between Canada, USA, and Mexico
- malnutrition
- disease caused by lack of food or unbalanced diet
- epicenter
- the point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
- ethnic group
- people who share such things as culture, language, tradition
- market economy
- An economic system in which economic factors are determined by low of supply and demand
- sahel
- region of Africa south of the Sahara
- terraced farming
- a flat, narrow ledge of land, usually constructed in hilly areas to increase the amount of arable land
- pampas
- a grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay
- harambee
- A policy of cooperation adopted in Kenya after independence to encourage economic growth
- cottage industry
- a small-scale manufacturing operation using little technology, often located in or near people's homes
- animism
- religious beleif the everything in nature has a spirit and god
- cash crop
- a farm crop grown for sale and profit
- basin irrigation
- in Egypt, a system by which water and silt were controlled by embankments and time released to irrigate farms
- sertao
- an interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain
- international monetary fund (IMF)
- An agency of the United Nations that provides loans to countries for development prjects
- mestizo
- a person of mixed native Mexican and european decent
- dike
- an embankment of earth and rock built to hold back water
- diffusion
- process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group to another
- relative location
- positioin of a place in relationi to another place
- watershed
- a dividing redge between two basins
- deforestation
- the process by stripping the land of its trees
- geyser
- a natural hot spring that shoots water and steam
- fellheen
- egyptian peasants
- absolute location
- the position on the earth in which a place can be found
- lava
- magma, or molten rock from the earth's mantle, that breaks through service of earth
- athism
- the beleif that God does not exist
- solar energy
- energy produced by the sun
- chemical weathering
- the process by which the actua; chemical structure of rock is changed, usually when water and CO2 cause a breakdown
- secular
- worldly, not relating to religion
- quartenary economic activities
- economic activity that focuses on aquistition processing, and sharing information, such as education or research