Unit 4 Vocab Practice

A change that helps a living thing survive under new conditions

• Assimilate

• Diaspora

• Adaptation

• Desalination

A human-made waterway that allows boats and ships to pass from one body of water to another

• Desalination

• Canal

• Adaptation

• Desertification

A long journey to settle in a new home

• Refugee

• Diaspora

• Migration

• Desertification

The connection of people and businesses across the world that leads to global cultural, political and economic integration

• Globalization

• Desalination

• Migration

• Assimilation

The movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland

• Diaspora

• Migration

• Urbanization

• Assimilation

A process that removes excess salt and minerals from water in order to obtain fresh water suitable for consumption or irrigation

• Adaptation

• Canal

• Desertification

• Desalination

A person who is seeking a safe haven after being forced to flee violence, persecution or war

• Refugee

• Diaspora

• Assimilate

• Adaptation

The movement of population into cities and away from rural areas (small farm community)

• Diaspora

• Desertification

• Urbanization

• Assimilation

The process where people of one ethnic culture are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society

• Canal

• Desalination

• Diaspora

• Assimilation

The spread of a desert environment into a non-desert region

• Desalination

• Canal

• Diaspora

• Desertification