Physical and Regional Geography Vocabulary Test part 2

Global Warming

• trapping of the sun's warmth in the planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun.

• when the globe is on fire

• when carbon dioxide and other air pollutants collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation

• state of the atmosphere, describing the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy.

acculturation

• something that attracts individuals to migrate or move to certain places

• the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society

• a region of people who share common characteristics such as language, politics, religion, foods, and customs

savanna region

• A region with mixed woodland/grassland ecosystems characterized by tree being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close so light reaches the ground

• a region with forest of cold subarctic region Examples: Alaska, Canada, and Siberia

• a region with treeless areas found in the Arctic and on top of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy with little rainfall and covered with snow most of the year

• a tract of lowland reclaimed from a body of water often the sea by construction of dikes parallel to the shoreline

What continents were shown for the savanna region?

tundra region

• A region with mixed woodland/grassland ecosystems characterized by tree being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close so light reaches the ground

• a region with treeless areas found in the Arctic and on top of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy with little rainfall and covered with snow most of the year

• A region forest of cold subarctic region Examples: Alaska, Canada, Siberia

GDP ( Gross Domestic Product)

• the total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given period

• a tract of lowland reclaimed from a body of water often the sea by construction of dikes parallel to the shoreline

• laying down of sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice

Taiga region

• A region with mixed woodland/grassland ecosystems characterized by tree being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close so light reaches the ground

  
  

• A region with treeless areas found in the Arctic and top of mountains where the climate is cold and windy with little rainfall and covered with snow most of the year

• A region forest of cold subarctic region Examples: Alaska, Canada, Siberia

polders

• a tract of lowland reclaimed from a body of water often the sea by construction of dikes parallel to the shoreline

• laying down of sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice

• A region forest of cold subarctic region Examples: Alaska, Canada, Siberia

  
  

• a region with forest of cold subarctic regions Examples: Alaska, Canada, Siberia