Question | Answer |
able to read and write | literacy |
not able to read and write | illiteracy |
one who flees his or her home for safety | refugee |
equally among all individuals | per capita |
Resources that are created or produced at least as fast as they are consumed, so that nothing is depleted | renewable resources |
the value of goods and services created within a country in a year | GDP |
a natural resource which cannot be produced, re-grown, regenerated, or reused | non renewable resources |
a small and inadequate amount | scarcity |
crack in the earth's surface created by shifting | rift valley |
movement of people from rural areas into cities | urbanization |
basic urban necessities like streeets and utilities | infrastructure |
systematic killing of a racial or cultural group | genocide |
clearing forests to plant fields for a few yaers and then abandoning them | shifting cultivation |
producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive | subsistence farming |
disposal of waste products | sanitation |
right to vote | suffrage |
electrical energy generated by water | hydroelectricity |
obtain goods or services from an outside supplier | outsourcing |
a collection of countries who agree to make trade between themselves easier and to maintain barriers to trade with countries outside of the bloc. | trade bloc |
organization formed in 1967 to promote regional development and trade in Southeast Asia | ASEAN |
supply with water | irrigate |
the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | perspective |
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Things that make people want to leave an area | push factors |
conditions in a location or region that encourage people to migrate to it | pull factors |
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movement of people from rural areas into cities | urbanization |