Chapter 15,16&17

Question 0

Ore

Answer 0

Rocky material containing a valuable mineral

Question 1

Fertile

Answer 1

Able to produce abundant crops

Question 2

Tertiary economic activities

Answer 2

Service industries such as finance, insurance, and tourism

Question 3

Moors

Answer 3

Broad, treeless rolling plains

Question 4

Bogs

Answer 4

Areas of wet spongy ground

Question 5

Glen

Answer 5

Narrow valley

Question 6

Peat

Answer 6

Spongy material containing water logged mosses and plants

Question 7

Cultural divergence

Answer 7

Deliberate efforts to keep the cultures separate

Question 8

Blight

Answer 8

Plant disease

Question 9

Fjord

Answer 9

Melted glaciers created flooded glacial valleys

Question 10

Geothermal energy

Answer 10

Energy produced from the heat of the earths interior

Question 11

Mixed economies

Answer 11

Systems combining different degrees of government regulation

Question 12

Dialects

Answer 12

Variations of languages that are unique to a region or community

Question 13

Impressionism

Answer 13

This school of art sought to capture fleeting visual impressions made by color light and shadows

Question 14

Nationalized

Answer 14

Brought under state control

Question 15

Recession

Answer 15

An extended decline in business activity

Question 16

Confederation

Answer 16

Loose political union

Question 17

Reparations

Answer 17

Money for war damages

Question 18

Inflation

Answer 18

Sharply rising prices

Question 19

Lignite

Answer 19

A soft, brown coal

Question 20

Dikes

Answer 20

Embankments of earth and rock

Question 21

Polder

Answer 21

Encircling a piece of land with dikes and pumping out water to make canals. Land reclaimed from the sea

Question 22

Decentralize

Answer 22

Transfer power to smaller regions

Question 23

Neutral

Answer 23

Not taking sides in war

Question 24

Cantons

Answer 24

States

Question 25

Perishable good

Answer 25

It does not stay fresh for long

Question 26

Strip mining

Answer 26

Miners strip away the surface of the earth to lay bare mineral deposits

Question 27

Navigable

Answer 27

Deep and wide enough to allow the passage of ships

Question 28

Dry farming

Answer 28

Leave land unplanted every few years in order to gather moisture

Question 29

Siroccos

Answer 29

Hot, dry winds from northern Africa

Question 30

Hub

Answer 30

Central point of concentrated activity and influence

Question 31

Seismic activity

Answer 31

It has many earthquakes and volcanic activity

Question 32

Subsidence

Answer 32

Ground in area sinks

Question 33

Renaissance

Answer 33

Great period of art and learning

Question 34

Grabens

Answer 34

Areas of land that have dropped down between faults, we're flooded

Question 35

Inhabitable

Answer 35

Able to support permanent residents

Question 36

Tsunamis

Answer 36

Huge wave cause primarily by a disturbance beneath the ocean, such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption