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Chapter 7 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Human Evolution | Long term biological maturation of the human species. |
Cold War | The post WWII standoff between the Soviets and the Western Alliance led by the US, which lasted 1945 to the collapse of the USSR. |
Rift Valley | The trough or trench that forms when thinning strip of the Earth’s crust sinks between two parallel faults. |
Continental Drift | The slow movement of continents controlled by the process associated with plate tectonics. |
State Formation | The creation of a state, exemplifying traditions of human territoriality that g back thousands of years. |
Ethnicity | The combination of people’s culture and carpal ancestry |
Nation-State | A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity. |
Indirect Rule | British colonial practice that kept indigenous power structures in place. |
Land Tenure | The way people own, occupy, and use land, |
Land alienation | One society or culture group taking land away from another. |
Green Revolution | The successful late twentieth center development of higher yield, fast growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries. |
Agribusiness | The agricultural operations of large, often, multinational, corporations. |
Medical geography | The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a spatial perspective. |
Endemic | Disease in host population affects many people in a kind of equilibrium without causing rapid deaths and widespread. |
Epidemic | A local or regional outbreak of a disease. |
Pandemic | An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide. |
Multilingualism | A society marked by a mosaic of local languages. |
Formal Economy | The part of a national economy that is registered with government agencies and complies with laws and regulations, especially taxation. |
Informal Economy | Dominated by unlicensed sellers of homemade goods and services, the primitive form of capitalism found in many developing countries that take place beyond the control of the government. |
Sharia Law | The strict criminal code based in Islamic Law that prescribes corporal punishments, amputations, stoning, and lashings for both major and minor offenses. |
Boko Haram | The violent, jihadist, terrorist organization based in and controls part of northeastern Nigeria. |
Anthropogenic | Environmental impacts emanating from human activities, particularly the production of pollutants associated with atmospheric warming. |
Mobile Money | The dominant system of text- messaged money exchanged in Sub-Saharan Africa that is attributable to the realm's general lack of a formal banking infrastructure. |
Cash Economy | An economic system in which all transactions are made in cash. |
Exclave | A bounded piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separate from it by the territory of another state. |
Apartheid | Literally, apartness. The Africans term for South Africa's pre 1994 policies of racial separation, a system that produced highly segregated socio-geographical patterns. |
Xenophobia | Extreme dislike and fear of foreigners, sometimes fueled by populist politicians. |