mrssimmons on January 1, 2011
Here are the mid-term vocabulary words. I will enter the words and you are responsible for defining each word using your class notes from 1/3
Mrs. Simmons Geography Class 10-11
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Dominion | ...self governing nation the accepts the British Monarch as head of state |
Parliamentary Democracy | a system of government when voters elect representatives to a law making body called parliament... |
Autonomy | people with the right to govern themselves... |
Newsprint | ..type of paper used for printing newspaper |
Tundra | vast rolling, treeless plains in which only the top few inches of ground thaw during the summer... |
Bilingual | a country with two official languages or a person who speaks two different languages... |
Glacier | giant sheets of ice that cover most of canada |
Province | regional political divisions... |
Prairie | a rolling, inland grassy arae... |
Cordillera | group of mountain ranges that run side by side |
GIS | computer software used to map the earth |
Sun | center of the solar system |
Southern Hemisphere | half sphere o degrees to 90 degrees south latitude |
Artifacts | tools and pottery of the past |
Famine | lack of food |
Contiguous | 48 states joined together |
Coral Reefs | skeletons of sea animals found in waters near some Hawaiian islands |
Rocky Mountains | longest mountain range in North America |
NAFTA | trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada |
pacific | largest and deepest ocean |
continential drift | movement of earth's huge land masses |
mouth | point where a river empties into another body of water |
weathering | the breaking of rocks into boulders, gravel and sand |
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