Unit 9 Vocabulary

Boom and Bust

• prospector who sinks exploratory oil wells

• alternating phases of economic growth and decline typically found in modern capitalist economies

• Explosion

• Expanded

Drought

• A place that is dry.

• A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.

• Too much rain

• A short period of high rainfall

Natural disaster

• does not cause property damage and social environmental disruption

• normal intensity of a natural agent

• A natural event such as flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.

• A planned event

Boomtown

• Revenue decrease

• A neighborhood that has an economic decline

• A town that exploded

• town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity

Overgrazing

• practice of grazing too little livestock for a short period on land

• Excessive graving with causes damage to grassland

• Too much grass

• decrease in soil

Overproduction

• too little stock

• production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed

• Producing too much rain

• High Demand

Panhandle

• The long handle on a pan

• a narrow strip of territory projecting from the main territory of one state into another state.

• The thick area of grassland

• People asking for money

Salt dome

• a pile of salt

• dome-shaped structure in sedimentary rocks, formed where a large mass of salt has been forced upward.

• salt on top of a dome

• large crystals that form after the rain

Storm Surge

• a rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes and wind associated with a storm.

• A decrease in rain

• Too much rain during the summer months

• Not enough rain during the winter months.

Urban

• Country

• city

• neighborhood

• school