Nature
________ ______ results from the use of water to produce electricity
hydroelectric power
Bananas produced to sell or trade with someone else are a _________ ________
cash crop
Countries in the process of becoming industrialized are called __________ __________
developing countries
__________ are people who flee to a foreign country for safety
refugees
The ________ _________ referes to the power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union
cold war
The tops of trees in the rainforest form a _________
Canopy
To send a product to other countries for sale or trade is to ___________
export
Some homes in western Europe burn _________ for fuel.
peat
The mass killing of 6 million European Jews in World War II is known as the ___________
Holocaust
Describe the historic process how do people in the Netherlands recalim land from the sea for use.
Build a dike to hold the sea water back and use a windmill to pump out the water
The process of farming by cutting down plants and stripping trees of bark and then burning it all is known as _______-____-________ _________farming
slash-and-burn farming
Industries that provide personal services for others are ________ ________
service industries
The word _________ refers to ice, snow, or rock sliding down a mountainside.
avalanche
After World War II ____________ became the dominant political movement in Eastern Europe
communism
The term _________ refers to a local form of language
dialect
___________ is the practice of planting young trees or the seeds of trees where the forest land has been stripped.
reforestation
Am _______ ________ includes relatatives other than husband and wife, and children
extended family
Pictures made from small pieces of colored glass set in mortar are called _________
mosaics
Ancient Greeks settled in independent communities called ___________
city-states
The system in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty was known as ______
feudalism
____________ is soil that is often permanently frozen below the surface
permafrost
People of mixed African and European ancestry are known as_______________
mulattoes
Artist influenced by ______ tried to show emotions in their work
romanticism
The __________ was a period of renewed interest in learning that brough advancements in European arts.
In _________ ________, government assume major responsibility for education and health care
welfare states