9th Grade Vocab 1st Semester
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aquifer | underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc |
| Anti-Semitism | policies, views, or actions that harm or discriminate against Jews |
| Arid | lacking sufficient water or rainfall |
| Basin | a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it |
| Colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. |
| Culture | the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group |
| Demand | the desire, willingness, and ability to buy a good or service |
| Desert | an arid region with little or no vegetation |
| Equilibrium Price | the price that balances quantity supplied and quantity demanded |
| Escarpment | a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge |
| Fault | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other |
| Five Pillars | beliefs that all Muslims needed to carry out: Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, and Pilgrimage |
| Genocide | the planned annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| Globalization | growth to a global or worldwide scale |
| Jerusalem | capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel |
| Koran | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina |
| Latitude | an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator |
| Legacy | (law) a gift of personal property by will |
| Legend | explanatory list of symbols on a map |
| Longitude | an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator |
| Mecca | the holiest city of Islam; Muhammad's birthplace |
| Monotheism | belief in a single God |
| Mosque | Muslim house of worship |
| Plateau | a relatively flat highland |
| Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods |
| Rift | a narrow fissure in rock |
| Savannah | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions |
| Shortage | the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required |
| Supply | offering goods and services for sale |
| Surplus | A quantity much larger than is needed |
| Steppe | partly dry grassland often found on the edges of a desert |
| Synagogue | (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation |
| Taliban | a fundamentalist Islamic militia |
| Torah | (Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written |
| Zionism | a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine |
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