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1 - Intro Unit
7th grade Intro vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| culture | everything about a person's life; usually the same as people around them |
| Government | Makes laws and keeps order |
| Polar | coldest zone by North & South poles |
| religion | personal belief about a higher power |
| climate | average weather over many years |
| tropical | warmest zone by the Equator |
| life expectancy | average years a person is expected to live |
| literacy | percentage of adults that can read and write |
| HDI | Rank of all countries from 1 to 189 |
| geography | study of the Earth and its' people |
| First world | modern, developed country with a good quality of life |
| Third world | poor, struggling country with problems to overcome |
| religion | personal belief about a higher power |
| GDP | $$ how successful a country's economy is $$ |
| infant mortality | babies that die each year at birth or before age 1 |
| infrastructure | fancy word for all the things that make life easier: electricity, running water, schools, hospitals, etc |