1. Alabama’s Natural Environment
Chapter 2
Alabama’s Natural Environment

2. rim
The edge of something round

3. plateau
A large area of flat land that is higher than the land around it

4. ridge
A long area of high land

5. environment
All the surrounding things, such as air, land, and water, and conditions that affect living things

6. bay
A body of water that cuts into a coastline

7. commerce
trade

8. rapids
Very fast-flowing water

9. dam
Walls built to hold back water

10. textile
cloth industry

11. reservoir
Human-made lakes

12. hydroelectric power
Generators in the dams use the poser of the water to produce electricity

13. natural resource
Something in the environment that people can use

14. temperate
Type of climate where seasons are neither too hot nor too cold

15. rural
Country areas

16. conserve
save