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ch.3
vocab
Term | Definition |
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culture | the way of life that distinguishes a people |
rural | of or characteristic the countryside |
population density | the average number of people living in a given area |
culture hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding culture |
birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1000 |
cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another |
immigrant | a person who moves into a country |
diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual to another |
emigrant | a person who leaves a country to live elsewhere |
cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
urbanization | the growth of city populations |
sovereignty | a country freedom and power to decide on policies and actions |
unitary system | a system of government in which on central government holds most of the political power |
federation | a government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local government |
confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all political power |
dictatorship | a system government in which absolute power is held by a small group or one person |
toalitarianism | a system of government in which a central authority controls all aspects of society |
monarchy | a system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch a king queen sha or sultan whos position is usually inherited |
democracy | |
traditional economy | |
market economy | |
command economy | |
natural resource | |
renewable resource | |
nonrenewable resource | |
fossil fuel | any one of several nonrenewable mineral resources formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals and used for fuel |
nuclear energy | |
water power | |
geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat |
solar energy | |
primary economic activity | |
subsistence farming | |
commercial farming | |
secondary economic activity | |
cottage industry | |
commercial industry | |
tertiary economic activity | |
quaternary economic activity | |
export | an item that is sent out of the country for sale |
import | an item that is brought int the country for sale |