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| low-lying area in which seawater has been drained to create new farmland |
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| large banks of earth and stone that hold back water |
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| the process whereby glaciers form and spread |
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| long, steep-sided glacial valley now filled with sea water |
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| fine, yellowish-brown topsoil made up of particles of silt and clay, usually carried by the wind |
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| dry wind that blows from the leeward sides of mountains, sometimes melting snow and causing avalanches, term used mainly in Europe |
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| mass ice, snow, or lock that slides down a mountainside |
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| cold winds that cause cold and wet climates |
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| sahara winds that bring warm winds and causes dry farming |
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| type of vegetation made up of dense forests of shrubs and short trees, common mediterranean climates |
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| permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground |
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| extension of the North Atlantic Drift that brings warm currents to Europe |
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| a powerful warm ocean current that continues the Gulf Stream northeast |
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| Peninsula in southwestern Europe |
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| Peninsula in southeastern Europe bordered by Adriatic Sea |
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| peninsula in northern europe |
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| a person who is forced to leave their country |
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| a separate community of ancient greece |
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| a period between ancient and modern times |
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| a system in which monarchies give land to lords or nobles who have to pledge loyalty |
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| a series of religious wars to return the holy land from the Muslims |
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| a period of discovery and learning in ancient rome |
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| lessened the power of Roman Catholic Church and led to the beginning of Protestantism |
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| educated Europeans and emphasized importance of reason and began to question long standing traditions and values |
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| an economic system in which business leaders use profits to expand their companies |
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| society based on economic equality |
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| payments made by Germany after WW1 which led to WW2 |
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| mass killing of Jews during WW2 |
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| a hard struggle between the communist and noncommunist world |
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| organization who's goal was to unite Europe in which goods, services, and workers could move freely within the country |
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| Good Friday Peace Agreement |
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| paved the way for Protestant and Roman Catholics to share power |
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| have tax supported programs for education, health care, and social security |
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| set goals for a central bank and common currency in the EU it also set up EU |
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| the manufacturing of machinery and industrial equipment |
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| making textiles or processing food |
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| raising several types of crops and and livestock on the same farm |
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| organizations in which farmers share a=in selling and growing crops which reduces costs and increases profits |
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| receives wages and a share of products and profits |
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| not sharing in the profits but getting wages like factory workers |
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| genetically modified food |
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| food with genes that make them grow bigger,faster, and more resistant to pets |
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| using natural substance instead of chemicals and fertilizer to increase crop yields |
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| way of farming in dry area that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserves soil moisturizer |
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| result of melting snow and ice which carries the acid to lakes and rivers |
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| wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground which harms the environment and historic buildings |
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