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Chapter 18-20 Vocab
World Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Domestication | The process of training and breeding animals for use by humans. |
| Communism | 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. |
| Eurasia | The name some geographers suggest 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 whee temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow. |
| Taiga | Thinly scattered, coniferous forests found in Europe and Asia. |
| Steppe | A temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia. |
| Multiethnic | Composed of many ethnic groups. |
| Ethnic Group | People who share such things as culture, language, 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 Moratality | The number of children per 1,000 live births die within the first year. |
| Maternal Mortality | The number of women who died due to pregnancy and childbirth complications per 100,000 live births. |
| Life Expectency | The number of years an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics. |
| National Identity | a people's sense 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 concentration camps during WWII |
| Velvet Revolution | a revolution without bloodshed which took place in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980's |
| Privatization | the process of selling government-owned industries and business to private owners |
| Collective Farm | a government-owned farm managed by workers who share the profits from their produce |
| Balkanize | to break up into small, mutually hostile political units, as occurred in the Balkans after WWI |
| Entrepreneur | a go-getter individual who starts and builds a business |
| Multiplier Effect | the effect an investment had in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy |
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