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| achange made to survive in an environment |
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| a group or chain of islands |
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| to travle around something such as a country or a continent |
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| the average weather in a region |
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| the spreading of ideas through contact such as trade or war |
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| structure built to hold water in place |
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| the widespread destruction of the world's forests |
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| the process in which land slowly dries out until little or no vegetation exists becoming a desert |
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| everything in nature (including people, plants and animals) that affects the develpoment in life |
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| a belief in superiority of a certain ethnic group or race |
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| land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf which has rich soil and crops to sustain a civilization |
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| a coast with many harbors |
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| mass movement of people from one area to another |
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| materials found in nature such as coal, wood and oil and used in manufacturing |
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| few or no natural harbors |
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| moving body of water that usually has a source in an area of high ground |
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| the end of a river where rich deposits of silt build up providing good farm land |
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| an area carved out by a river usually having fertile land and are sites for the earliest civilizations |
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| material deposited by rivers |
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