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Geography chapter 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, strongest International alliance in history, includes the USA and most of the Western nations of Europe |
| USA | world’s only superpower |
| diplomacy | art of negotiating agreements between nations |
| Treaties | formal agreements between nations |
| Internationational organizations | designed to aid with International Trade & monitor human rights issues and ensure that all are treated with dignity & respect |
| counts of small samples of the total population | |
| natural increase | growth rate expressed in % of births & deaths as well as migration in a country’s population |
| crude birthrate | # of babies born in proportion to every 1000 people living in a country |
| Crude deathrate | # of people who died each year per 1000 people |
| Infant mortality rate | # of infants per 1000 live births that died before 1st birthday |
| Life expectancy | # of years a human can expect to live at the time of their birth |
| Urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities & the growth of those cities |
| Rural areas | located in smaller, less populated areas |
| Population density | average # of people who live on each square mile of land |
| Physiological density | population of a country divided by the area of available land in the country |
| Duties of government | to preserve order, protect its citizens from violence by punishing evil & provide justice & defense |