Ch 7 Go Vocab

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Silicon Valley

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A name given to an area between San Jose and Palo Alto in California, noted for its computing and electronics industries.

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Manufacturing Belt

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Web definitions

The Rust Belt, also known as the Manufacturing Belt or The Factory Belt, is an area in parts of the Northeastern United States, Mid-Atlantic States, and portions of the eastern Midwes

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corn belt

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.A region where wheat is the chief agricultural product

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Ohio River

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1.A river that flows for 980 miles from Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, where it is formed by the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, through the eastern Midwest to join the Mississippi River at Cairo in Illinois

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Trans-Canada Highway

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1.A route, 4,860 miles (7,820 km) long, between Victoria in British Columbia and Saint John's in Newfoundland

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Global economy

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The world- or global economy generally refers to the economy, which is based on economies of all of the world's countries, national economies

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Tariffs

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1.A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

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Rio Grande

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1.A river in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Colorado and flows 1,880 miles (3,030 km) southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, forming the US–Mexico border from El Paso to the gulf

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Alaska

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1.The largest state in the US, in northwestern North America, with coasts on the Arctic and North Pacific oceans and on the Bering Sea, separated from the contiguous 48 US states by Canada; pop. 626,932; capital, Juneau; statehood: Jan. 3, 1959 (49). The territory was purchased from Russia in 1867. After oil was discovered in 1968, a pipeline was completed in 1977 to carry the oil from the North Slope to Valdez