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Chapter 3&4 Vocabulary

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Definition
1.Culture   show
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show The average number of people living in a given area  
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show The number of live births each year per 1,000 people  
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show A person who moves into a country  
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show A person who leaves a country to live elsewhere  
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6.Urbanization   show
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7.Rural   show
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show A place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures  
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show The contact and interaction of one culture with another  
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10.Diffusion   show
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show The restriction of a culture from outside influences  
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show A country's freedom and power to decide on policies and actions  
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show A system of government in which one central government holds most of the political power  
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14.Federation   show
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show A system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government  
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show Descriptive of a system of government in which the leader holds all political power  
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show A system of government in which absolute power is held by a small group or one person  
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18.Totalitarianism   show
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19.Monarchy   show
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20.Democracy   show
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show An economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use, with little surplus and exchange of goods; also known as a subsistence economy  
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22.Market Economy   show
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show An economic system that is controlled by a single central government  
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24.Natural Resource   show
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25.Renewable Resource   show
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26.Nonrenewable Resource   show
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show Any one of several nonrenewable mineral resources formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals and used for fuel  
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show A type of energy produced by fission- the splitting of uranium atoms in a nuclear reactor, releasing stored energy  
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29.Water Power   show
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show Energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat  
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show Energy produced by the sun  
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32.Primary Economic Activity   show
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show Farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village  
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34.Commercial Farming   show
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35.Secondary Economic Activity   show
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36.Cottage Industry   show
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show A large-scale manufacturing operation that employs many people and produces large quantities of goods  
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38.Tertiary Economic Activity   show
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39.Quaternary Economic Activity   show
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40.Export   show
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41.Import   show
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