The regional climate variations across the state influence which crops farmers can successfully cultivate.
该州地区性的气候差异影响着农民能够成功种植哪些作物。
Recent scholarship complicates this image, revealing instead a shifting web of regional routes, many of which carried goods only a few hundred miles before passing them to the next set of traders.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Oceanographer Liam Chen's recent survey of the same plankton populations found shell density had stabilized in areas where local upwelling brought in cooler, less acidic water, suggesting that regional currents may buffer some populations against the broader trend Petrov describes.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
A separate research team led by Hana Yamada found that increased snowfall at the glacier's highest elevations, linked to a regional shift in storm patterns, is adding mass at the top of the glacier fast enough to partially offset the melting occurring lower down, though not eliminate it.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “regional”?
B — Relating to a specific area or region. “regional” means relating to a specific area or region.
Which word means “relating to a specific area or region”?
D — regional. “regional” means relating to a specific area or region.
regional — relating to a specific area or region. In Chinese: 地区的，区域的.
regional is pronounced /ˈriːdʒənl/.
The regional climate variations across the state influence which crops farmers can successfully cultivate. (该州地区性的气候差异影响着农民能够成功种植哪些作物。)
local, territorial, sectional — all close in meaning to regional (relating to a specific area or region).
national, global — each the opposite of regional (relating to a specific area or region).
Yes. regional is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.