Second Semester Geography Review

A steep cliff or slope between a higher and lower land surface

• escarpment

• valley
• plateau
• canyon

The loss of highly educated and skilled workers to other countries

• Talent pool
• Brain drain
• Knowledge overflow
• Intellectual exodus

The cultivation or growth of a single crop over a wide area for a consecutive number of years

• Polyculture
• Multiculture
• Oligoculture
• Monoculture

A long, steep-sided glacial valley now filled by seawater

• Bay
• Cove
• Fjord
• Lagoon

Relating to or characteristic of a continent

• continentarian
• continental
• continentality
• continentalism

The practice and business of recreational travel based on concern for the environment

• Green tourism
• Eco-tourism
• Eco-friendly travel
• Nature exploration

Large bank of earth and stone that holds back water

• Wall
• Levee
• Dike

• Reservoir

The granting of self rule to local and regional authorities

• Devolution
• Federalism
• Centralization
• Decentralization

Wet or dry airborne acids that fall to the ground

• Toxic fog
• Acid snow
• AcidDeposition

• Sour hail

A body of mountain ranges formed by fault line activity

• Volcanic mountains
• Plateau mountains
• Massif

• Folded mountains