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commercial farming   the rising of crops and animals  
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commercial industry   a large scale manuturing opertastion that employs many people and prouces large quantites of goods  
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cottage industry   a small scale manufacturing opertion using little technolgy, often located in or near peoples homes  
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export   an item that is sent out of the country for sale  
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primary economic activity   an economic activity that takes or uses natural resources directly such as fishing or mining  
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quaternary economic activity   economic activity that focuses on the acquisition, processing and sharing of information such as education or reserch  
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import   an item that is brought into country for sale  
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subsistence farming   farming that pervides only enough for the needs of a family or a village  
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secondary economic activity   economic activity in which people use raw matrials to product or manufactture new product of greater value  
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tertiary economic activity   activity in which people do not derectly gather or process raw materal but pursue activity that serve others services industry  
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cuulture   the way of life distinguishes a people, for example, government, language, religion, customs, and beliefs.  
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culture divergence   the restiction of a culture from outside influeance  
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birthrate   the number of live births in each year 1,000 people.  
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culture hearth   a place which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to serounding cultures  
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culture convergence   the contant ans interaction of one culture with another  
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diffusion   the process by which a cultural element is trancemitted from one group or indivual to another  
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emigrant   a person who leaves the country to go live elsewhere  
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immigrant   a person who moves into the country  
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population density   the average number of people living in a given area  
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rural   of or charactistics of the country  
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urbanization   the growth of city populations  
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fossil fuse   any one of several nonrenewable mineral resources formed from the remains of any plants, or animals and used for fuel  
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geothermal energy   energy produced by the earth heat  
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natural resourses   a material in the natural environment that people value and used to satisfy their needs  
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nonrenewable resourses   a natural resource that cannot be replaced once it is used  
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nuclear energy   a type of energy made by fission the spitting of ueanuim atoms in a nuclear reactor releasing stored energy  
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solar energy   energy that is porduced by the sun  
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renewable resourses   a natural resource that the environment countinues to supply or replace as it is being used  
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water power   energy prodiced by falling water to move machinary, or ginerate electricity  
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authoritarian   descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all poltical power.  
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command economy   an economy system that is controlled by a single central government  
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confederation   a system of government in which political units keep their sovereighty but give limited power to a central government  
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democracy   a system of a government in which the people are invisited with the power to choose their leaders and determine government policy.  
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dictatorship   a system of government in wihixh absolute power is held by a small group or by one person  
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federation   a government strusture in which some powers are given to the nastanial government and other powers are reserved for more local governments  
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market economy   economy system in which dections about production, price, and other  
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monarchy    
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totalitarianism    
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traditional economy    
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unitary system    
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sovereignty    
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