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Chapter 3 & 4 Vocabulary

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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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Urbanization   show
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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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show The process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual to another.  
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Cultural Divergence   show
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Sovereignty   show
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show A system of government in which one central government holds most of the political power.  
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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 leaders hold all political powers.  
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Dictatorship   show
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Totalitarianism   show
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show A system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch- king, queen, shah, or sultan- whose position is usually inherited.  
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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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show An economic system in which decisions about production, price, and other economic factors are determined by law of supply and demand.  
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Command Economy   show
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show A material in the natural environment that people value and use to satisfy their needs.  
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Renewable Resource   show
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show A natural resource that cannot be replaced once it is used.  
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Fossil Fuel   show
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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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Water Power   show
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Geothermal Energy   show
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show Energy produced by the sun.  
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show An economic activity that takes or uses natural resources directly, such as fishing or mining.  
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Subsistence Farming   show
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Commercial farming   show
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show An economic activity in which people use raw materials to produce or manufacture new goods of greater value.  
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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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Tertiary economic acticity   show
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Quaternary economic activity   show
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Export   show
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show An item brought into the country for sale.  
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