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chapter 3 and 4 vocabulary
| 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 |
| brithrate | the number of live brith each year per 1,000 people |
| immagrant | a person who moves into a country |
| emigrant | a person who leaves a coumtry to live elsewhere |
| urbanization | the growth of city population |
| rural | of or characteristic of the countryside |
| culture hearth | a place in which important ideas begins and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures |
| culture convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another |
| diffusion | the process by which a cutuarl elements is transmitted from one group or indivual to another |
| cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
| national resource | a material in the natural environment that people value and use to satisfy their needs |
| renewable resourse | a natural resourse that the environment to supply or replace as it is used |
| nonrenewable resourse | a natural resourse that cannot be replaced once it is used |
| fossil fuel | any one of several nonrenewable minerals resourse formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals and used for fuel |
| nuclear energy | a type of energy produces by fission the splitting of uranium atoms in a nuclear reactor released storge energy |
| water power | energy produced from falling water to move machinery ot generate electricity |
| geothermal energy | energy produced form the earth's intense interior heat |
| solar energy | energy produces by the sun |
| sovereignty | a country's freedom and power to decide on polices and actions |
| unitary system | a system of government in which one central governemt holds most of ther political power |
| federation | a government stucture in which some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
| confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limit power to a central government |
| authoriterian | descriptive of a system of government in ehich the leaders hold all politicals power |
| dictatorship | a system of government in which absloute 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 |
| monarcy | a system of authoritarion governments headed by a monarch a king queen shah or sultan whose position is usually inherited |
| democracy | a systsem of government in which the people are invited with the power to choose their leafers and determine |
| traditional enconomy | an economic system in which families produce goods and service for their own use withlittle surplus and exchange of goods alson known as a subsistence economy |
| command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single government |
| primary economic activity | an economic activity that takes or uses natural resourses directly such as fishing or mining |
| subsistence farming | an economic system in which families produces goods and service for their own use with little surplus and exchange of goods also known as a substance economy |
| commercial farming | the rising of crops and livestock for sale in markets |
| secondary economic activity | an economic activity in which people use raw materials to produce or manufacture new products of greater value |
| cottage industry | a small scale manufacturing operation using little technlogy often located in or near peopl's homes |
| commercail industry | a large scale manufacturing operation that 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 activies that serve otherss servie industry |
| quaternary economic actvity | an economic activity that focuses on the acquistiton peocessing and sharing of information such as education or research |
| export | an iteam that is sent out of the country for sale |
| import | an item that is brought into the country for sale |
| market economy | an econmic system in which decisions about production price and other economic fators are determined by the law of supply and demand |
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