GLOSSARY UNIT 2 GEOGRAPHY

-OASES: a fertile patch in a desert occurring where the water table appoaches o reaches the ground surface.

-LIVESTOCK: cattle, horses, poultry, and similar animals kept for domestic use but not as pets.

-SCRUB: to rub, a surface, hard, with or as if with a brush, soap, and water, in order to clean it.

-LOGGING: the work of felling, trimming, and transporting timber.

-DEFORESTATION: To clear of trees of a determinated zone.

-TAIGA: the coniferous forests extending across much of subartic North America and Eurasia.

-TUNDRA: a vast treeless zone luing between the ice cap and the timberline of North America and Eurasia and having a permanently frozen subsoil.

-JUNGLE: an equatorial forest area with luxuriant vegetation, often almost impenetrable.

-DESERT: a region that is devoid or almost devoid of vegetation, because of low rainfall.

-STEPPE: an expensive grassy plain usually without trees.

-DECIDUOUS FOREST: shedding all leaves annually at the end of the growing season and then having a dormant period without leaves.

-RIPARIAN FOREST: denoting or relating to the legal rights of the owner of land on a river bank,such as fishing or irrigation.