GEOGRAPHY GLOSSARY!!!!!!!!

UNIT TWO

-Temperature: the degree of hotness of a body, substance, or medium; a physical property related to the average kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules of a substance.
-Savannah: open grasslands, usually with scattered bushes or trees, characteristic of much of tropical Africa.
-Oases: a fertile patch in a desert occurring where the water table approaches or reaches the ground surface.
-Taiga: the coniferous forests extending across much of subarctic North America and Eurasia, bordered by tundra to the north and steppe to the south.
-Precipitation: rain, snow, sleet, dew, etc, formed by condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere.
-Tundra: a vast treeless zone lying between the ice cap and the timberline of North America and Eurasia and having a permanently frozen subsoil.
-Settlement: the establishment of a new region; colonization.
-Jungle: an equatorial forest area with luxuriant vegetation, often almost impenetrable.
-Livestock: cattle, horses, poultry, and similar animals kept for domestic use but not as pets, esp on a farm or ranch.
-Desert: a region that is devoid or almost devoid of vegetation, esp because of low rainfall.
-Steppe: an extensive grassy plain usually without trees.
-Holm oak: an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree.
-Reciduous forest: (of trees and shrubs) shedding all leaves annually at the end of the growing season and then having a dormant period without leaves.
-Evergreen: (of certain trees and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year; continually shedding and replacing leaves.
-Forest: a large wooded area having a thick growth of trees and plants.
-Meadows: an area of grassland, often used for hay or for grazing of animals.
-Drought: a prolonged period of scanty rainfall.
-Sandstorm: a strong wind that whips up clouds of sand.
-Flood: the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water.
-Acid rain: rain that contains a high concentration of pollutants, chiefly sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal or oil.
-Tsunami: a large, often destructive, sea wave produced by a submarine earthquake, subsidence, or volcanic eruption. Sometimes incorrectly called a tidal wave.
-Hurricane: a severe, often destructive storm.