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Ch. 3 Sect. 1 Vocab
North America Geography & History
Term | Definition |
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contiguous | connected in one block |
temperate | mild, in terms of climate |
glacier | a large mass of ice and packed snow |
export | to send to another country for aid or profit |
drought | a long period with little or no precipitation |
commercial agriculture | the business of producing crops to sell |
cordillera | a system of several parallel mountain ranges |
rainshadow effect | process in which moist air rises up a mountain range and then cools and falls as precipitation, leaving the other side of the range mostly dry |
dam | a barrier that controls the flow of water |
peninsula | a body of land surrounded on three sides by water |
subsistence farming | farming to grow only enough food for families to eat, not to sell |
aquifer | a layer of rock beneath Earth that contains water |
cenote | an underground pool of water |
sustainable | capable of being continued without damaging the environment or using up resources permanently |