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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |