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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.culture | the way of life that distinguishes a people for example government language religion customs and beliefs |
| 2.population density | the average number of people living in an given area |
| 3.birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1,000 people |
| 4.immigrant | a person who moves into a country |
| 5.emigrant | a person who leaves a country to live elsewhere |
| 6.urbanization | the growth of cit populations |
| 7.rural | of or characteristics of the countryside |
| 8.cultural hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures |
| 9.cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another |
| 10.diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual to another |
| 11.cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
| sovereignty | s country's freedom and power to decide on policies and actions |
| unitary system | a system of government in which one central government holds most of the political power |
| federation | a government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
| confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
| authoritarian | description of a system of government in which the leaders hold all political powers |
| dictatorship | a system of government in which absolute power is held by a small group or one person |
| totalitarianism | a system of government in which a central authority controls all aspect of society |
| monarchy | a system of author |
| democracy | a system of government in which the people are invested with the power to choose thier leaders and determine government policy |
| traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use as a subsistence economy |
| market economy | an economic system in which economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand |
| command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
| natural resource | |
| renewable resource | |
| nonrenewable resource | |
| fossil fuel | |
| nuclear ener |
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