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WorldGeo
Chapter 18&19&20 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| domestication | the process of training and breeding animals for use by human |
| communism | a system of government in which the government controls the means of production, determaining what goods will be made, how much workers will make, and how much items will cost |
| Eurasia | the name some geographers suggested should be used for the landmass of Europe and Asia |
| inland sea | a sea that is almost completely surrounded by land |
| tundra | a dry, treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow |
| taiga | thinly scattered, coniferious forest found in Europe and Asia |
| steppe | a temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia |
| multiethnic | composed of any ethnic groups |
| ethnic group | people who share things such as culure, launguage, and religion |
| acid rain | rain whose high concentration of chemicals, usually from industrial pollution, pollutes water, kills plant and animal life, and eats away at the surface of stone and rock, a form of chemical weathering |
| infant mortality | the number of children per 1000 live births who die within the first year |
| maternal mortality | the number of women who died due to pregnancy and childbirth complications per 100000 live births |
| life expectancy | the number of years an individual is expected to live as determined by statisics |
| national identity | a peoples sence of what makes them a nation |
| ghetto | a section of a city in which a particular minority group is forced to live |
| Holocaust | the execution of 6 million jews in nazi camps during WWII |
| velvet revolution | a revalution without bloodshed, took place in czech. in 1980s |
| collective farm | a government owned farm managed by workers who share profits from their produce |
| privatization | the process of selling government owned industries and buisnesses to private owners |
| balkanize | to break up into small, mutally hostial political units |
| entrepreneur | a go getter individual who starts and builds a buisness |
| multiplier effect | the effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy |
| annex | to formally incorporate into a country or state the territory of another |
| diversify | to increase the variety |
| chernozem | a rich top soil found in the russian steppes and other mid- laditude grasslands |
| permafrost | a layer of soil just below the earths surface that stays perminatly frozen |
| czar | an emperor of russia |
| abdicate | to surrender ones office throne or authority |
| soviet | in the former soviet union, anyone of various governing councils |
| command economy | an econoic system that is controled by a single central government |
| glasnost | a policy of openness introdusced in the soviet union in the late 1980s |
| perestroika | in the former soviet union, a policy of economic restructuring |
| ruble | a currency of russia |
| black market | the system of selling goods and services outside of official channels |
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