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Geography chapter 4
Term | Definition |
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NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, strongest International alliance in history, includes the USA and most of the Western nations of Europe |
USA | world’s only superpower |
diplomacy | art of negotiating agreements between nations |
Treaties | formal agreements between nations |
Internationational organizations | designed to aid with International Trade & monitor human rights issues and ensure that all are treated with dignity & respect |
counts of small samples of the total population | |
natural increase | growth rate expressed in % of births & deaths as well as migration in a country’s population |
crude birthrate | # of babies born in proportion to every 1000 people living in a country |
Crude deathrate | # of people who died each year per 1000 people |
Infant mortality rate | # of infants per 1000 live births that died before 1st birthday |
Life expectancy | # of years a human can expect to live at the time of their birth |
Urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities & the growth of those cities |
Rural areas | located in smaller, less populated areas |
Population density | average # of people who live on each square mile of land |
Physiological density | population of a country divided by the area of available land in the country |
Duties of government | to preserve order, protect its citizens from violence by punishing evil & provide justice & defense |