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Geography Terms
terms for my 1st 9 weeks test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Culture | way of life of a group of people who share traditions, interests and beliefs. |
| Subsistence Farming | traditional agriculture whose goal is to produce just enough to eat for a family or a village to survive |
| Population Distribution | the pattern of population-where people live-in a country, continent, or the world. |
| Population Density | average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer. |
| Tornado | a violent windstorm with rotating winds and a funnel shaped cloud |
| Hurricane | a large, powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters |
| Tsunami | Japanese term for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake |
| Pollution | the existence of impure, unclean, or poisonous substances in the air, water, and land environment. |
| Civilization | a culture that has organized a social, economic, and political system, built cities, and achieved a certain level of development in the art and sciences. |
| History | the study of written information about events and people in the past |
| Prehistory | the time in peoples past before written records were kept |
| Culture Hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
| Cultural Diffusion | the spread of ideas, customs, goods, and people from one culture to another. |
| Culture Region | division of earth based on a variety of factors, including government, social groups, economic systems, language, or religion |
| Government | a group or nations political systems |
| Standard Of Living | a measure of peoples quality of life, based on access to material goods such as income, food, and housing. |
| Economic System | the way in which the people of a country produce and distribute goods and services |
| per Capita income | the total income of a country or region divided by the number of people, income per person |
| free enterprise | an economic system in which private businesses operate with little interference with the government |
| capitalism | economic system based on free enterprise, in which individuals own and use capital |
| socialism | political philosophy that originally called for ownership of all land and factories by peasants and workers, now refers to government ownership of some or all means of production |
| language family | group of related languages that all have developed from other earlier languages |
| religion |
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