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WorldGeographyy11
Chapter 18-20 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Domestication | the process of training and breeding animals for use by humans |
| Communism | a system of governmetnin 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 aisa |
| 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 coniferous forests found in europe and aisa |
| Steppe | a temperate grassland found europe and aisa |
| 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 plants 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 child birth complications per 10000 live births |
| Life Expectancy | the number of years an indicidual is expected to live as determined bystatiscs |
| National Identity | a peoples sense of what makes them a nation |
| Ghetto | a section of a city in whihc a particular minority group is forced to live |
| Holocaust | the execution of 6 million jews in the nazi concentration camps during WWII |
| Velvet Revolution | a revolution without bloodshed which took place in Czechoslovokia during the late 1980s |
| Privatization | the process of selling government-owned industries and buisness to private owners |
| Collective Farm | a government owned farm managed by workers who share the profits form their produce |
| Balkanize | Tlo break up into small mutually hostile political units, as occurrd in the balkans after ww1 |
| Entrepreneur | A go getter indivjdual who starts and builds a buisness |
| Multiplier Effect | The effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy |
| Annex | To formally incorperate into a country or state the territory to another |
| Diversity | To increase the variety of |
| Chernozem | A rich topsoil found in the russian steppes and other mid-lattitudes grasslands |
| Permafrost | A layer of soil just below the earths surface that stays permenantly frozen |
| Czar | An emperor of Russia |
| Abdicate | To surrender ones ofice throne or authority |
| Soviet | In the former Soviet Union any one of various governing councils |
| Command economy | An economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
| Glasnost | A policy of openness introduced in the soviet union in the kate 1800s |
| Perestrokia | In the former soviet union a policy of economic reconstructing |
| Ruble | The currency of russia |
| Black market | The system of selling goods and services outside of official channels |
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