Semester 1 Vocabulary
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Indigenous | living or existing naturally in a particular place
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| Industry | the manufacturing and making of products to sell
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| Tourism | the industry that provides services to people who are traveling for enjoyment
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| Metropolitan Areas | having to do with a large city; an area that includes a city and its surrounding suburbs
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| Reservations | an area of land that has been set aside for Native Americans
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| Aboriginal | a native people
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| Transcontinental | describing something that crosses a continent
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| Bilingual | able to use 2 languages
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| Extinct | describing a particular kind of plant or animal that has disappeared completely from Earth; OR describing a volcano that is no longer able to erupt
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| Geography | the study of Earth and its people, places, and environments
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| Climate | the average weather in an area over a long period of time
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| Resource | a material that can be used to produce crops or other products
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| Hemisphere | each half of Earth
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| Scale | the relationship between distances on the map and on Earth
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| Revolution | a complete trip of Earth around the Sun OR a period of violent and sweeping change
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| Continent | a large, unbroken mass of land
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| Tectonic Plates | one of the 16 pieces of Earth's crust
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| Weathering | the process by which Earth's surface is worn away by natural forces
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| Erosion | the process by which weathered bits of rock are moved elsewhere by water, wind or ice
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| Desalinization | a process that makes salt water safe to drink
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| Death Rate | the number of deaths compared to the total number of people in a population at a given time
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| Birthrate | the number of babies born to the total number of people in a population at a given time
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| Population Distribution | the geographic pattern of where people live
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| Emigrate | to leave one's home to live in another place
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| Immigrate | to enter and live in a new country
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| Refugee | a person who flees a country because of violence, war, persecution, or disaster
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| Urbanization | when a city grows larger and spreads into nearby areas
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| Globalization | the process by which nations, cultures, and economies become mixed
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| Culture | the set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people
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| Renewable Resource | a resource that can be totally replaced or is always available naturally
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| Nonrenewable Resource | the resources that cannot be totally replaced
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| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | the total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a single year
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| Standard of Living | the level at which a person, group, or nation lives as measured by the extent to which it meets its needs
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| Export | to send a product produced in one country to another country
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| Import | when a country brings in a product from another country
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