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SSVoc.Ch3HRS
Voc. Ch.3 Holy Rosary School
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| number of deaths per year out of every 1,000 people | death rate |
| number of children born per year out of every 1,000 people | birth rate |
| severe lack of food | famine |
| the average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer | population density |
| growth of cities | urbanization |
| to leave a country and move to another | emigrate |
| a person who flees to another country to escape persecution or disaster | refugee |
| a way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs | culture |
| people with a common language, history, religion, and some physical traits | ethnic group |
| local form of a language that may have a distinct vocabulary and pronunciation | dialect |
| a form of limited government in which power rests with the people and all citizens share in running the government | democracy |
| form of government in which a leader rules by force, and typically limits citizens' freedoms. | dictatorship |
| government led by a king or queen who inherited power by being born into a ruling family | monarchy |
| highly developed culture | civilization |
| a process of spreading ideas, languages, and customs from one culture to another | cultural diffusion |
| areas that include different countries that share similar cultural traits | cultural region |
| development of a worldwide culture with an interdependent economy | globalization |
| material from the earth that people use to meet their needs | natural resource |
| a natural resource that can be replaced naturally or grown again | renewable resource |
| natural resource such as a mineral that cannot be replaced | nonrenewable resource |
| a system that sets rules for deciding what goods and services to produce, how to produce them, and who will receive them | economic system |
| a country with an economy that has a mix of agriculture: a great deal of manufacturing and service industries, and that is very productive, and provides its people with a high standard of living | developed country |
| a country that limited industries where agriculture remains important and incomes are generally low | developing country |
| country that is creating new manufacturing and business | newly industrialized country |
| to sell goods or resources to other countries | export |
| to buy resources or goods from other countries | import |
| tax added to the price of goods that are imported | tariff |
| number limit on how many items of a particular product can be imported from a certain nation | quota |
| removal of trade restrictions so that goods flow freely among countries | free trade |
| condition that exists when countries rely on each other for ideas, goods, services, and markets | interdependence |