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ch 7&8
Ch. 7 & 8 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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megalopolis | a very large city |
mangrove | a tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along coastal areas |
bayou | a marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or river |
fall line | imaginary line between appalachian mountains and the atlantic coastal plains, where rivers and streams form waterfalls ahnd rapids as they descend from higher to the coastal plains |
sunbelt | the southern and southwestern states of the united states, from the carolinas to the southern california,characterizedby a warm climate and , recently, rapid population growth |
humus | the organic material that results when plants and animals that live in the soil die and decay |
growing season | in farming, the average number of days between the last frost of spring and the first frost of fall |
grain elevator | a tall building equipped with mach |
grain exchange | |
tundra | |
aqueduct |