Unit 4 Vocabulary

A change that helps a living thing survive under new conditions

• adaptation

• canal

• desalination

• urbanization

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

• assimilate

• desertification

• adapt

• refugee

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

• desalination

• canal

• migration

• globalization

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

• diaspora

• urbanization

• desalination

• adapt

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

• canal

• assimilate

• globalization

• desertification

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

• migration

• refugee

• diaspora

• urbanization

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

• globalization

• refugee

• desertification

• assimilation

a long journey to settle in a new home

• globalization

• migration

• diaspora

• urbanization

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

• migration

• desalination

• refugee

• canal

the movement of a population into cities and away from rural areas (small farm communities)

• assimilation

• globalization

• migrate

• urbanization