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ch 3 and 4 vocab
geo
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| commercial farming | the rising of crops and animals |
| commercial industry | a large scale manuturing opertastion that employs many people and prouces large quantites of goods |
| cottage industry | a small scale manufacturing opertion using little technolgy, often located in or near peoples homes |
| export | an item that is sent out of the country for sale |
| primary economic activity | an economic activity that takes or uses natural resources directly such as fishing or mining |
| quaternary economic activity | economic activity that focuses on the acquisition, processing and sharing of information such as education or reserch |
| import | an item that is brought into country for sale |
| subsistence farming | farming that pervides only enough for the needs of a family or a village |
| secondary economic activity | economic activity in which people use raw matrials to product or manufactture new product of greater value |
| tertiary economic activity | activity in which people do not derectly gather or process raw materal but pursue activity that serve others services industry |
| cuulture | the way of life distinguishes a people, for example, government, language, religion, customs, and beliefs. |
| culture divergence | the restiction of a culture from outside influeance |
| birthrate | the number of live births in each year 1,000 people. |
| culture hearth | a place which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to serounding cultures |
| culture convergence | the contant ans interaction of one culture with another |
| diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is trancemitted from one group or indivual to another |
| emigrant | a person who leaves the country to go live elsewhere |
| immigrant | a person who moves into the country |
| population density | the average number of people living in a given area |
| rural | of or charactistics of the country |
| urbanization | the growth of city populations |
| fossil fuse | any one of several nonrenewable mineral resources formed from the remains of any plants, or animals and used for fuel |
| geothermal energy | energy produced by the earth heat |
| natural resourses | a material in the natural environment that people value and used to satisfy their needs |
| nonrenewable resourses | a natural resource that cannot be replaced once it is used |
| nuclear energy | a type of energy made by fission the spitting of ueanuim atoms in a nuclear reactor releasing stored energy |
| solar energy | energy that is porduced by the sun |
| renewable resourses | a natural resource that the environment countinues to supply or replace as it is being used |
| water power | energy prodiced by falling water to move machinary, or ginerate electricity |
| authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all poltical power. |
| command economy | an economy system that is controlled by a single central government |
| confederation | a system of government in which political units keep their sovereighty but give limited power to a central government |
| democracy | a system of a government in which the people are invisited with the power to choose their leaders and determine government policy. |
| dictatorship | a system of government in wihixh absolute power is held by a small group or by one person |
| federation | a government strusture in which some powers are given to the nastanial government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
| market economy | economy system in which dections about production, price, and other |
| monarchy | |
| totalitarianism | |
| traditional economy | |
| unitary system | |
| sovereignty |
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