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Chapter 3
population density | the average number of people in a square mile or a square kilometer is very high. |
birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1,000 people. |
immigrant | a person who moves into a country |
emigrant | a person who leaves a country to live elswhere |
urbanization | the growth of a city populations, |
rural | of, or characteristics of, the countryside |
culture hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and there after spread surrounding cultures |
cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture to another |
diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual group |
cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
sovereignty | a nation's freedom from outside control. |
unitary system | a system of government in which one central government holds more of the political power. |
federation | a government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and others powers are served for more local governments |
confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty |
monarchy | a system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch- a king, queen , shah, or sultan whose position is usually inherited,. |
authorian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all the political power. |
dictatorship | a system of a government in which absolute 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 |
democracy | A system of government in which the people are invested with the power to choose their leaders and determinate the government policy. |
traditional economy | an economic system in which family produced goods and services for their own use,with little surplus and exchange. |
market economy | an economic system in which decisions about production, price and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand. |
command econmy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government. |
natural recurces | material in the natural environment that people value and use to satisfy their needs. |
renewable resource | a natural resource that the environment continues to supply or replace as it is used |
nonrenewable resource | a natural resource that cannot be replaced once it is used |
fossil fuel | any of the several nonrenewable mineral resources formed from the remains of an 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, releasing stored energy. |
water power | energy produced by falling water to move a machinery or generate energy |
geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat. |
solar energy | energy produced by the sun. |
primary economic activity | an economic activity that takes or use natural resources directly, such as fishing or mining. |
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 or manufacture new products of greater value. |
cottage industry | a small-scale manufacturing operation using little technology, often located in or near people's homes |
commercial 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 purse activities that serve others service industry |
Quaternary economic activity | an economic activity that focuses on the acquisition, prosesing, and sharing |
export | an item that is sanded out of the country |
import | an item that is brought to a country |
culture | the beliefs and actions that define a group of people's way of life |