KB unit 4 Location Vocabulary

A change that helps a living thing survive under new conditions

• adapt/adaptation

• modify/modification

• refugee

• globalization

The process where people of one ethnic culture are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society

• adapt/adaptation

• assimilate/assimilation

• urbanization

• globalization

A human-made waterway that allows boats and ships to pass from one body of water to another

• modification

• desertification

• desalination

• canal

A process that removes excess salt and minerals from water in order to obtain fresh water suitable for consumption or irrigation

• globalization

• adaptation

• desalination

• desertification

The spread of a desert environment into a non-desert region

• desertification

• assimilation

• modification

• desalination

The movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland

• indigenous

• refugee

• diaspora

• globalization

The connection of people and businesses across the world that leads to global cultural, political and economic integration

• globalization

• urbanization

• adaptation

• modification

A long journey to settle in a new home

• diaspora

• assimilation

• migration

• globalization

A person who is seeking a safe haven after being forced to flee violence, persecution or war

• assimilation

• urbanization

• refugee

• diaspora

The movement of population into cities and away from rural areas (small farm community)

• urbanization

• modification

• adapation

• globalization