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WGeo4
Chapter 3 & 4 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| culture | The way of life that distinguishes a people for example, government, language, religion, customs, and beliefs. |
| population density. | the average number of people living in a given area. |
| birthrate | The number of live births a year per 1000 people. |
| immigrant | A person who moves into a country. |
| emigrant | A person who leaves a country to live elsewhere . |
| urbanization | The growth of city populations. |
| rural | Of or characteristics of the countryside. |
| culture hearth | A place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures. |
| cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another. |
| diffusion | The process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual to another. |
| cultural divergance | the restriction of a culture from outside influences. |
| sovereignty | a countries 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 some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments. |
| confederation | ya system of government in which individual poitical units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
| authotitarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all the political power. |
| dictatorship | a system of government in which all power is held by a small group or one person. |
| totalitarianism | A system of government in which a central authority controls all aspects of society. |
| monarchy | A system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch king, queen,shah, or sultan whose position is usually inherited. |
| democracy | A sustem of government in which the people are inverted with the power to choose their leaders and determine government policy. |
| traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use, and a subsistence economy. |
| matket economy | an economic system in which decisions about production price and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand. |
| command economy | An economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
| natural resource | a material in the natural environment that people value. |
| renewable resource | a natural resource that the environment continue to supply of replace as it is used. |
| nonrenewable resource | a natural resource that cannot be replaced once it is used. |
| fossil fuel | any one of several non renewable mineral resources formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals and used for fuel. |
| nuclear energy | a type of energy produced by fission the splitting of uranium atoms in a nuclear reactor. |
| water power | energy produced from falling water to mover machinery of generate electricity. |
| geothermal energy | energy produced fro the earths intense inner heat. |
| solar energy | energy produced by the sun. |
| primary economic activity | an economic activity that takes or uses natural resources directly such as fishing or farming. |
| subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village. |
| commercial farming | the raising of crops and livestock for sale in markets. |
| secondary economic activity ` | an economic activity in which people use raw materials to produce of manufacture new products of greater value. |
| cottage industry | a small scale manufacturing operationnuseing little technology often located in or near peoples homes. |
| commercial industry | a large scale manufacturing operation hat employs many people and produces large quantities of goods. |
| tertiary economic activity | an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activities that serve others; service industry. |
| quaternary economic activity | an economic activity that focuses on the acquisition processing and sharing of information sucha as education or research |
| export | an item that is sent out of the country for sale. |
| import | an item that is brought into a country for sale. |
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