Chapter 6 Vocabulary

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Chapter 6 Vocabulary

• United States
• Canada

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Vocab Questions

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• Total Value of a nations output of goods and
  services.

Gross National Product
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• Artificial Waterways, to ease water access to
  previously hard to reach places.

Canal
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• Communication by electronic means phone,
  internet, satellite, etc.

Telecommunication
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• Economic system that allows individual business
  owners to operate, and profit from their own
  businesses in an open, competitive market

• Free Enterprise

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• Comprised of a major city and its surrounding
  suburbs

Metropolitan Area
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• Rank according to Function

Heirarchy
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• The area served by a metropolis

Hinterland
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Chapter 7 Very large city region made up of
several large cities and their surrounding areas
Megalopolis
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• Tropical tree that grows in swampy ground along
  coastal areas

Mangrove
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• Marshy inlet or outlet of a lake or river

Bayou
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Chapter 7 Imaginary line b.t. the Appalachian
Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal Plain, where
rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as
they descend from high elevations to coastal
plains
Fall Line
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Chapter 7 Southern and Southwestern states of
the U.S. Characterized by warm climate and
population growth
Sunbelt
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• Organic material that results when plants and
  animals that live in the soil die and decay

Humus
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• In farming, the average number of days b.t. the
  last frost of spring and the first frost of fall

Growing Season
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Chapter 7 Tall building equipped with machinery
for loading, cleaning, storing, and discharging
grain
Grain Elevator
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Chapter 7 Place were grain is bought and sold as
a commodity
Grain Exchange
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Chapter 7 Region where temperatures are always
cold and only specialized plants can grow
Tundra
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Chapter 7 Large pip or channel designed to
transport water from a remote source over a long
distance
Aqueduct