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Social studies SFA
Ch 4,5,6
Question | Answer |
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Contiguous | joined together inside a common boundry |
megalopolis | huge urban area made up of several large cities and nearby communities |
praire | rolling inland grassland region with fertile soil |
cordillera | region of parallel mountain chains |
canyon | deep valleys with steep sides |
navigable | wide and deep enough for ships to pass |
glacier | giant ice sheet |
divide | the high point in a land mass that determines the direction rivers flow |
constrain | limit |
route | a journey |
Colony | overseas settlement tied to a parent country |
annex | declare ownership of an area |
terrorism | violence used against the people or governmant in the hopes of winning political goals |
representative democracy | form of government in which voters choose leaders who make and enforce the laws |
federalism | political and social system in which kings gave land to nobles in exchange for the nobles promise to serve them and provide military service as knights for the king |
amendment | an addition to a legal settlement or law |
parliamentry democracy | govt in which voters elect representative to a law making body called parliament and members of parliment vote for an offical caled the prime minister to head the govt |
economy | way of producing goods |
regime | govt usually led by a dictator |
principle | rule or guideline |
core | basic or fundamental |
ban | legally block |
surburb | smaller community just outside a large city |
indigenous | accepting two offical languanges able to speak |
evolve | develop |
generate | make |
partipate | take part in |
free market | type of economyin which people are free to buy and produce and sell with limited govt involvement |
profit | money a business earns after all its expenses are met |
stock | part ownership of a company |
newsprint | type of paper used for printing newspapers |
guarantee | promise |
media | types of commuinacation such as the internet, TV, and radio |
reluctant | hesitant |
trade deficit | situation that occurs when the value of a countries imports is higher than the value if it's exports |
tariff | tax added to th price of goods that are imported |
trade surplus | situation that occurs when the value of a country's exports is higher than the value of it's actions |
acid rain | chemicals from air pollution that combine with precipitation |
brownfield | sites that have been abandoned and may comtain dangerous chemical |
urban sprawl | spread of human settlement |
restict | to limit |
commuinity | neighborhood |