Term | Definition |
Domestication | The process of training and breeding animals for use by humans. |
Communism | A system of government in which the government controls the means of production determining what goods will be made, how much workers will be paid, and how much items will cost. |
Eurasia | The name some geographers suggest should be used for the landmass of Europe and Asia. |
Inland Sea | A sea that is almost completely surrounded by land. |
Tundra | A dry, treeless plain whee temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow. |
Taiga | Thinly scattered, coniferous forests found in Europe and Asia. |
Steppe | A temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia. |
Multiethnic | Composed of many ethnic groups. |
Ethnic Group | People who share such things as culture, language, and religion. |
Acid Rain | Rain whose high concentration of chemicals, usually from industrial pollution, pollutes water, kills plant and animal life, and eats away at the surface of stone and rock; a form of chemical weathering. |
Infant Moratality | The number of children per 1,000 live births die within the first year. |
Maternal Mortality | The number of women who died due to pregnancy and childbirth complications per 100,000 live births. |
Life Expectency | The number of years an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics. |
National Identity | a people's sense of what makes them a nation |
Ghetto | a section of a city in which a particular minority group is forced to live |
Holocaust | the execution of 6 million Jews in Nazi concentration camps during WWII |
Velvet Revolution | a revolution without bloodshed which took place in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980's |
Privatization | the process of selling government-owned industries and business to private owners |
Collective Farm | a government-owned farm managed by workers who share the profits from their produce |
Balkanize | to break up into small, mutually hostile political units, as occurred in the Balkans after WWI |
Entrepreneur | a go-getter individual who starts and builds a business |
Multiplier Effect | the effect an investment had in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy |