ch 3 and 4 vocab Word Scramble
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commercial farming | the rising of crops and animals |
commercial industry | a large scale manuturing opertastion that employs many people and prouces large quantites of goods |
cottage industry | a small scale manufacturing opertion using little technolgy, often located in or near peoples homes |
export | an item that is sent out of the country for sale |
primary economic activity | an economic activity that takes or uses natural resources directly such as fishing or mining |
quaternary economic activity | economic activity that focuses on the acquisition, processing and sharing of information such as education or reserch |
import | an item that is brought into country for sale |
subsistence farming | farming that pervides only enough for the needs of a family or a village |
secondary economic activity | economic activity in which people use raw matrials to product or manufactture new product of greater value |
tertiary economic activity | activity in which people do not derectly gather or process raw materal but pursue activity that serve others services industry |
cuulture | the way of life distinguishes a people, for example, government, language, religion, customs, and beliefs. |
culture divergence | the restiction of a culture from outside influeance |
birthrate | the number of live births in each year 1,000 people. |
culture hearth | a place which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to serounding cultures |
culture convergence | the contant ans interaction of one culture with another |
diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is trancemitted from one group or indivual to another |
emigrant | a person who leaves the country to go live elsewhere |
immigrant | a person who moves into the country |
population density | the average number of people living in a given area |
rural | of or charactistics of the country |
urbanization | the growth of city populations |
fossil fuse | any one of several nonrenewable mineral resources formed from the remains of any plants, or animals and used for fuel |
geothermal energy | energy produced by the earth heat |
natural resourses | a material in the natural environment that people value and used to satisfy their needs |
nonrenewable resourses | a natural resource that cannot be replaced once it is used |
nuclear energy | a type of energy made by fission the spitting of ueanuim atoms in a nuclear reactor releasing stored energy |
solar energy | energy that is porduced by the sun |
renewable resourses | a natural resource that the environment countinues to supply or replace as it is being used |
water power | energy prodiced by falling water to move machinary, or ginerate electricity |
authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all poltical power. |
command economy | an economy system that is controlled by a single central government |
confederation | a system of government in which political units keep their sovereighty but give limited power to a central government |
democracy | a system of a government in which the people are invisited with the power to choose their leaders and determine government policy. |
dictatorship | a system of government in wihixh absolute power is held by a small group or by one person |
federation | a government strusture in which some powers are given to the nastanial government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
market economy | economy system in which dections about production, price, and other |
monarchy | |
totalitarianism | |
traditional economy | |
unitary system | |
sovereignty |
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