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ch.3
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| culture | the way of life that distinguishes a people |
| rural | of or characteristic the countryside |
| population density | the average number of people living in a given area |
| culture hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding culture |
| birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1000 |
| cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another |
| immigrant | a person who moves into a country |
| diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual to another |
| emigrant | a person who leaves a country to live elsewhere |
| cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
| urbanization | the growth of city populations |
| sovereignty | a country freedom and power to decide on policies and actions |
| unitary system | a system of government in which on 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 government |
| confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
| authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all political power |
| dictatorship | a system government in which absolute power is held by a small group or one person |
| toalitarianism | a system of government in which a central authority controls all aspects of society |
| monarchy | a system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch a king queen sha or sultan whos position is usually inherited |
| democracy | |
| traditional economy | |
| market economy | |
| command economy | |
| natural resource | |
| renewable resource | |
| nonrenewable resource | |
| fossil fuel | any one of several nonrenewable mineral resources formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals and used for fuel |
| nuclear energy | |
| water power | |
| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat |
| solar energy | |
| primary economic activity | |
| subsistence farming | |
| commercial farming | |
| secondary economic activity | |
| cottage industry | |
| commercial industry | |
| tertiary economic activity | |
| quaternary economic activity | |
| export | an item that is sent out of the country for sale |
| import | an item that is brought int the country for sale |
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