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Ch. 2 Sect. 3 Vocab
Physical & Human Geography
Term | Definition |
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culture | a group's way of life, including types of food, shelter, clothing, language, behavior, and ideas |
civilization | a society with a highly developed culture, politics, and technology |
communal | shared |
capital | a country's wealth and infrastructure |
citizen | a person living within a territory who has rights and responsibilities granted by the government |
gaucho | a cowboy of South America |
culture region | an area that is unified by common cultural traits |
kimono | traditional Japanese women's clothing |
monotheistic religion | a system of belief in one god or deity |
polytheistic religion | a system of belief in many deities or gods |
economy | a system in which people produce, sell, and buy things |
entrepreneurship | the characteristics of creativity and risk existing in a person or society |
free enterprise economy | a system in which privately-owned businesses create goods and services; also called a market economy or capitalism |
gross domestic product (GDP) | the total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given year |
government | an organization that keeps order, sets rules, and provides services for a society |
democracy | a form of government by the people, in which citizens often elect representatives to govern them |
human rights | the political, economic, and cultural rights that all people should have |