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Vocabulary
Chapter 3 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 |
| birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1,000 people. |
| immigrant | a person who moves into the country |
| emigrant | a person who leaves the country to live elsewhere |
| urbanization | the growth of city populations. |
| rural | of, or characteristic of, the countreyside |
| cultural 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 bt which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual to another. |
| cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
| 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 the government controls the means of production determining what goods will be made how much workers will be paid and how much items will cost |
| authoritarion | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all political power |
| democracy | a system of government in which the people are invested 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 with little surplus and exchange of goods also known as a subsistence economy |
| comommand economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government. |
| traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use with |
| market economy | an economic system in which decisions about production price and other economic factors are detemined by the law of supply and demand |
| totalitarianism | a system of government in which a central authority controls all aspectsof society |
| Primary economic activity | an economic activity that take or uses natural resources directly such as fishing or mining |
| subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village |
| 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 neat peoples homes |
| commercial industry | a large scale manufacturing operation that employs many people and produces large quantities of goods |
| tertiary economic activity | |
| Quaternary economic activity | |
| ecport | an item that is sent out of the country for sale |
| import | an item that is brought into the country for sale |
| natural resoure | a material in the natural environment that people value and use to satisfy their needs |
| renewabale resource | |
| nonrenewable resource | a natural resource that cannot be replaced once it is used |
| fossil fuel | any one of several nonrenewable 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 releasing stored energy |
| water power | |
| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earths intense interior heat |
| solar energy | energy produced by the sun |
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