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Human Geography
Lesson 1 The World's People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| death rate | number of deaths compared to total number of people in a population at a given time |
| birthrate | number of babies bron compared to total number of people in a population at a given time |
| doubling time | number of years it takes a population in size based on current growth rate |
| population distribution | the geographic pattern of where people live on Earth |
| population density | the average number of people living within a square mile or a square kilometer |
| urban | describes areas that are densely populated |
| rural | describes area that are lightly populated |
| emigrate | to leave one's home to live in another place |
| immigrate | to enter and live in a new country |
| refugee | a person whol flees a country because of violence, war, or persecution |
| urbanization | when cities grow larger and spread into nearby areas |
| megalopolis | a huge city or cluster of cities with an extremely large population |
| culture | teh set of beliefs, behaviors, traits shared by a group of people |
| ethnic group | a group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, religious, or cultural background |
| dialect | a regional variety of a language with unique features, such as vocabulary, grammer, or pronunciation |
| cultural region | a geographic area in which people have certain traits in common |
| globalization | the process by which nations, cultures, and economies become mixed |
| renewable resources | a resource that can be totally replaced or is always available naturally |
| nonrenewable resources | a resource that cannot be totally replaced |
| economic system | how a society decides on the ownership and distribution of its economic resources |
| command economy | an aconony in which the means of production of production are publicly owned |
| mixed economy | an economy in which parts are privately owned and parts are owned by the government |
| gross domestic product (GDP) | the total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a single year |
| standard of living | the level at which a person, group or nation lives as measured by the extent to which it meets its needs |
| productivity | measurement of which is produced and what is required to produce it |
| export | to send a product made in one country to another country |
| import | to bring in a product from another country |
| free trade | arrangement in which a group of countries decides to set few or no tariffs or quotas |
| sustainability | the economic principle by which a country works to cvreate conditions where all the natural resources for meeting the needs of cociety are available |
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