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world georg
ch 3&4 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| culture | the way of life that ditingushes a people, for example, goverment, language, religion, customs,and beliefs |
| population desity | |
| birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1,000 people |
| immigrant | |
| emigrant | |
| urbanazation | |
| rural | of, or characteristict of, the countryside |
| culture hearth | |
| culture convergence | |
| diffushion | |
| cultural divergence | |
| sovereignty | a country's freedom and power to decide on policies and actions |
| unitary system | a system of government in which one central government holds most of the political power |
| federation | a government structure 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 soverignty but give limited power to a central government |
| authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all the political power |
| dictatorship | a system of 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 |
| monarchy | a system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch-a king, queen, shah, or sultan-whose position is usually inherited |
| democracy | a system of government in which the people are invested with the power to choose their leaders and government policy |
| traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use, with little surplus and exchange of goods; also known as a subsistence economy |
| 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 economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
| natural resource | a 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 | |
| nuclear energy | |
| water power | |
| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earths intense interior 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 mining |
| subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for 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 ussing little technology, often located in or near peoples 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 pursue activities that serve others; service industry |
| quaternary economic activity | an economic activity that focuses on the acquistion, processing, and sharing of information, such as education or research |
| export | an item sent out of a country for sale |
| import | an item brought in to a country for sale |
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