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Term | Definition |
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Death rate | The number of deaths compared to the total number of people in a population at a given time |
Birthrate | The number of babies born compared to the number of people in a population at a given time |
Doubling time | The number of years it takes for a population to double in size based on its current growth rate |
Population distribution | The geographic pattern of where people live |
Population density | The average number of people living within a square mile or square kilometer |
Urban | Describes an area that is densely populated |
Rural | Describes an area that is lightly populated |
emigrate | To leave one's home to live in another place |
Immigrant | To enter and live in a new country |
Refugee | A person who flees a country because of violence War persecution or disaster |
urbanization | Want a city grows larger and spreads in nearby areas |
Megalopolis | A huge City or cluster of cities with an extremely large population |
culture | The set of beliefs behaviors and 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 grammar or pronunciation |
cultural region | A geographic area in which people have certain traits in common |
Democracy | What type of government run by the people |
Representative democracy | A form of democracy in which citizens elect government leaders to represent the people |
Monarchy | The system of government in which a country is ruled by a king or queen |
Dictatorship | A form of government in which one person has absolute power to rule and control the government the people and the economy |
Human rights | The rights belong to all individuals |
Globalization | The process by which nations cultures and economies become mixed up |
Renewable resources | A resource that can be totally replaced or is always available naturally |
Economic system | How a society decides on the ownership and distribution of its economic resources |
Traditional economy | An economy where resources are distributed mainly through families |
Market economy | An economy in which most of the means of production are privately owned |
Command economy | An economy in which the means of production are publicly owned |
Mixed economy | An economy in which parts of the economy are privately owned and parts are owned by the government |
Gross domestic product (GDP) | The total dollar value of all final goods and service 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 means meets its needs |
Productivity | The measurement of what is produced and what is required to produce it |
Export | To send a product produced in one country to another country |
Import | When a country brings in a product from another country |
Free trade | Arrangement whereby a group of countries decide to set little or no tariffs on quotas |
sustainability | The economic principle by which a country Works to create conditions where all the natural resources for meeting the needs of society are available |
Mature | Fully grown and developed as adults( refers to older adults) |
Behalf | In the interest of |
Currency | The paper money and coins and distribution |