Global Vocab.
Terms
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- Americanization
- embracing one opinion
- Archipelago
- a group or chain of islands clusted together
- Bay
- body of water enclosed by land that is smaller than a gulf
- Cape
- pointed piece of land that sticks into a body of water
- cultural divergence
- cultures exposed to things from other cultures exp. McDonalds in Russia
- desert
- very dry area
- diffusion
- blending of cultures (melting pot) exp. cajuns
- Ethnocentrism
- your ethnicity is the center, judging other peoples beliefs based on your own (negative)
- gulf
- part of the ocean or sea that is partly surrounded by land. usually larger than a bay.
- lake
- large body of water surrounded by land on all sides. Really huge lakes are often called seas.
- mountain
- very tall high, natural place on earth- higher than a hill highest mt. - "Everest"
- Ocean
- large body of salt water that surrounds a continent. Oceans cover more than 2/3 of earth's surface
- Peninsula
- piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides
- River
- large flowing body of water that usually empties into a see or ocean
- Strait
- narrow body of water that connects to larger bodies of water
- Valley
- low place between mountains