GLOSSARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE UNIT 2

Bush: a large plant with lots of braches that is smaller than tree and grows close to the ground

Desert: an area of land that recives less than 250mm of rain per year

Deciduous: a type of tree that loses all of its leaves in autumn 

Jungle: an area with lush vegetation and high rainfall wtih an equatorial climate 

Livestock: domestic animals raised of farms 

Logging: the work fo felling trees and transporting the logs for sale 

Meadow: an area of grassland

Mild: moderate or not extreme

Oasis: a small area in a desert with water and vegetation

Pasture:an area with grass or other vegetation , easten as dood by grazing animals 

Precipitation: a form of water that falls to the earth´s surface 

Savannah: a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions

Scrub: low trees or shrubs that grow in areas with little rain 

Stttlement: a place where people have gone to live and where no or few people lived before 

Steppe: a grassy plain usually without trees

Taiga: the forests located in the Earth´s northern regions consisting of evergreen trees

Tempertate: the mildest of the Earth´s three climate zones.The temperate zones have moderate temperatures and precipitation 

Tundra: the vast, treeless area in the Artic regions with low-growing vegetaation such as lichens mosses