Chapter 5 Vocab #1

• soil that is deposited by running water

• alluvial soil

• loess soil

• tributary

• reservoir

• time before the Civil War

• eon

• antebellum period

• tributary

• geologist

• commercial production of freshwater animals, like catfish, and aquatic plants

• lignite

• agriculture

• aquaculture

• reservoir

• area of land that drains into tributaries and eventually into larger rivers

• geologist

• reservoir

• tributary

• drainage basin

• a vast, long period of time

• eon

• antebellum period

• flora

• fauna

• animal life in a region

• aquaculture

• fauna

• flora

• lignite

• plant life in a region

• tributary

• fauna

• flora

• lignite

• scientist who studies the origin, history, and composition of the Earth's crust

• lignite

• fauna

• aquaculture

• geologist

• low grade of coal

• lignite

• geologist

• fauna

• flora

• windblown dust that accumulates and forms a ridge of bluffs as it approaches the higher elevations

• loess soil

• alluvial soil

• reservoir

• tributary