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social studies2
social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| number of deaths per year out of every 1000 people. | death rate |
| number of children born each year for every 1000 people. | birthrate |
| severe lack of food. | famine |
| average number of people living in a square mile or square killometer. | 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 |
| way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs | culture |
| people wiht a common language, history, religon, and some physical traits | ethnic group |
| local form of a language that may have a distinct vocabulary and pronunciation | dialect |
| 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 king or quenn who inherited power by being born into ruling family | monarchy |
| highly developed culture | civilization |
| process of spreading ideas, languages and customs from one culture to another | culture diffusion |
| area that includes different countries that share similar culture traits | culture region |
| development of a worldwide culture with an interdependent economy | globalization |
| material from the earth that people use to meet their needs | natural resources |
| natural resource that can be replaced naturally or grown again | renewable resource |
| natural resource such as a mineral that cannot be replaced | nonrenewable resource |
| system that sets rules for deciding what goods and services to produce, how to produce them , and who will receive them | economic system |
| 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 |
| country that has limited industry where agricultures remains important, incomes and 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 piece of goods that are imported | tariff |
| number limit on how many items of a particular product can be imported form 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 | interpendence |
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