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vocab
Question | Answer |
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dialect | local language |
ethnic group | group of people that share the same beliefs |
democracy | form of limited govt where power rests with people of the nation |
cultural diffusion | process of spreading new knowledge & skills to other countries |
civilization | highly developed cultures |
culture region | includes different countries that have traits in common |
population density | average # of people living in a square miles |
urbanization | people leaving their towns for the city |
emigrate | leave the country where you are born |
refugees | people who flee to another country to escape disaster |
natural resources | products of the earth that people use to meet their needs |
renewable resources | cannot be used up or can be replaced naturally or grown again |
non renewable resources | resources that cannot be replaced |
economic system | set rules for deciding what goods & services to produce |
tariff | a tax added to the price of goods |
quota | # limit, a # of items that can be imported |
free trade | removing trade barriers so goods can flow freely |
interdependence | countries depend on one another for goods |
globalization | developement of the world culture & an interdependent economy |