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Geography
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Term | Definition |
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Traditional | System in which traditions, customs and beliefs shape the goods and products the society creates. |
Free/Captalism | profits are the motivator for production base on supply and demand. |
Communism/command | Central government (state or collective)makes all decisions for society. |
Socialism | The state owns some or share some industries. |
Totalitarianism | A political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible. |
Theocracy | A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a God. |
Monarchy | A form of government with a monarch at the head. |
Dictatorship | Government ruled by a dictator. |
Republic | A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
Biosphere | The art of the earth and it's atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life. |
Lithosphere | The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. |
Hydrosphere | All of the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas and sometimes water over the earth's surface such as clouds. |
Atmosphere | The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. |
G.P.S (Global Positioning System) | A navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach each other. |
G.I.S (Geographic Information System) | A geographic information system is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. |
G.O.E.S (Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite) | Environmental satellite, data, and information service, supports, weather forecasting, severe storm tracking , and meteorology research. |
soil-building | Planted to improve the quality of the soil. |
Erosion | The process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents. |
Wind | The perceptible natural movement of the air in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction. |
Water | A colorless, transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that forms the seas, lakes , rivers and rain. Water is also the basis of fluids for living organisms. |
Earthquake | A sudden and violet shaking of the ground causing movement within earth's crust or volcanic action. |
Volcano | A mountain or hill, typically conical haring a crater or rent though which lava , rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust. |
Convergent | Coming close together. |
Divergent | drawing apart from one another. |
Transforming | To change markedly the appearance or form of. |
Subduction | The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into mantle beneath another plate. |
NATO | A intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4th 1949. |
European Union | An economic and political union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. |
United Nations | An international organization composed of most of the countries of the world. |
Berlin Wall | A barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on August 13th 1961, that completely cut off Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. |
Maquiladora | A factory in Mexico run by a foreign company and exporting its produces to the country of that country. |
Polder | A piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes in the Netherlands. |
Dam | A barrier to obstruct the flow of water. |
Canal | An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation. |
Railroad | A track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight train runs. |
Highway | a main road, one connecting major towns or cities. |
Primary | Where the money making activities of a society are mainly focused upon the growing and collecting of natural resources. |
El Nino | A band of anomalously warm ocean water temperatures that periodically develops off the western coast of South America and can cause climate changes across the Pacific ocean. |
Irrigation | The artificial application of water to the land or soil. |
Cottage Industry | A business or manufacturing activity carried on in a persons's home. |
Commercial Industry | An industry that deal with the commercial production and sale of goods and services. |
Subsistence Farming | Self-Sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. |
Commercial Agriculture | Large scale production of plants for sale intended for widespread distribution to wholesalers or retail outlets. |
Transportation | The action of transporting someone or something or the process of being transported. |
Urbanization | The condition of being urbanized. |
Nationalism | Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. |
Bubonic Plague | The most common form of plague in humans characterized by fever, delirium, and the formation of buboes. |
Crusades | A medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. |
Renaissance | The period of European history at the close of the middle ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries. |
Ocean currents | The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction. |