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Global
Ch.3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| culture | the way of life that distinguishes a people, for example, government, language, religion, customs, and beliefs |
| population density | the average number of people living in a given area |
| birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1000 people |
| immigrant | a person who moves to a country |
| emigrant | a person who leaves a country to live else where |
| urbanization | the growth of city population |
| rural | of, or characteristics of, the country side |
| culture hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures |
| cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another |
| diffusion | the process by which a culture element is transmitted from one group or individual to another |
| cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
| Sec.1 Main Idea | the study of human geography focuses on a number of population topics, as well as many cultural topics |
| soverignty | a country's freedom and power to decide on policies and actions |
| unitary government | a system of government in which one central government holds most of the political power |
| federation | a government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
| confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
| authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all the political power |
| dictatorship | a system of government in which absolute power is held by a small group or one person |
| totalitarian | a system of government in which a central authority controls all aspects of society |
| monarchy | a system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch- a king, queen, shah, or sultan- whose position is usually inherited |
| democracy | a system of government in which the people are invested with the power to choose their leaders and determine government policy |
| traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use, with little surplus and exchange of goods; also known as a subsistence econmy |
| market economy | an economic system which decisions about production, price, and other economic are decided by the law of the supply and demand |
| command economy | an economic system that is ca government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
| Sec.2 Main Idea | the world's countries have a variety of government and economic systems based on differing philosophies |
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