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Unit 2 Vocab
7-5 Petersen: Unit 2 Ch.4-5 (The U.S. and Canada)
Word | Definition |
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contiguous | joined together or touching inside a common boundry |
megalopolis | a huge uraban area |
coral reef | a submerged ridge of coral formed by the skeletons of small sea animals in the ocean |
free enterprise system | economic system in which people start and run businesses with limited government intervention |
service industry | a business that provides services to people instead of producing goods |
navigble | wide and deep enough to allow the passage of ships |
fossil fuels | coal, oil, or natural gas used as power |
acid rain | rain containing huge amounts of chemical pollutants |
landfill | the areas where trash companies dump the waste they collect |
recycling | reusing materials instead of throwing them out |
free trade | taking down trade barriers so that goos flow freely amoung countries |
colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
representative democracy | a government in which voters choose leaders who make and enforce laws |
federal republic | government in which powere is divided between the national government and the state government |
secede | withdraw from a group |
immigrants | people who move to a new country to make a new home |
rural | countryside, farm areas |
urban | city dwellers |
suburb | smaller city that surrounds a city |
provinces | regional political divisions |
glacier | giant, slowly moving ice |
tundra | huge, rolling, treeless plains in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in the summer |
prairie | rolling, inland grassy area with fertile soil |
cordillera | group of mountain ranges that run side by side |
newsprint | thin paper used for printing newspapers |
dominion | self governing nation that accepts the British monarch as head of state |
parlimentary democracy | voters elect representatives |
prime minister | the official head of a government |
bilingual | speaking two languages |
autonomy | the group's right to govern itself |