Rubenstein APHG Chapter 9 & 11 Vocab
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| Active solar energy systems | show 🗑
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| show | The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.
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| show | Fuel that derives from plant material and animal waste.
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| show | A nuclear power plant that creates its own fuel from plutonium.
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| Demand | show 🗑
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| show | A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.
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| show | A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development.
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| show | A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.
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| Fair trade | show 🗑
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| show | The percentage of women holding full-time jobs outside the home.
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| Fission | show 🗑
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| show | Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.
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| show | An energy source formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago.
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| show | The pumping of water at high pressure to break apart rocks in order to release natural gas.
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| Fusion | show 🗑
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| Gender Inequality Index (GII) | show 🗑
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| show | Energy from steam or hot water produced from hot or molten underground rocks.
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| Gross domestic product (GDP) | show 🗑
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| Gross national income (GNI) | show 🗑
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| show | A rapid increase in the value of houses followed by a sharp decline in their value.
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| show | An indicator of the level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, that is based on income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.
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| Hydroelectric power | show 🗑
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| Inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI) | show 🗑
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| Literacy rate | show 🗑
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| Maternal mortality ratio | show 🗑
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| Microfinance | show 🗑
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| show | Eight international development goals that all members of the United Nations have agreed to achieve by 2015.
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| Nonrenewable energy | show 🗑
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| show | Solar energy systems that collect energy without the use of mechanical devices.
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| show | A solar energy cell, usually made from silicon, that collects solar rays to generate electricity.
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| show | The amount of a resource in deposits not yet identified but thought to exist.
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| show | The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry.
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| Productivity | show 🗑
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| show | The amount of a resource remaining in discovery deposits.
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| Purchasing power parity (PPP) | show 🗑
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| Radioactive waste | show 🗑
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| show | A resource that has a theoretically unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans.
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| show | The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.
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| show | Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade (raising taxes, reducing government spending, controlling inflation, etc.)
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| Supply | show 🗑
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| Tertiary sector | show 🗑
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| show | Development of core regions at the expense of those on the periphery.
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| show | The gross value of a product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.
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| show | Sulfur and nitrogen oxides that enter the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and mix into sulfuric and nitric acid and come back to Earth's surface.
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| Acid Precipitation | show 🗑
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| Air Pollution | show 🗑
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| show | Article of clothing.
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| show | (BOD) The amount of oxygen required by aquatic bacteria to decompose organic waste; this is a measure of water pollution.
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| show | Location where transfer of one mode of transport to another takes place.
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| Bulk-gaining industry | show 🗑
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| show | Industry where final product has less volume than inputs.
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| show | (CFC) Gas used as solvent, propellant in aerosols, refrigerant, and in plastic foams and extinguishers.
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| show | Manufacturing based in homes, which was common before Industrial Revolution.
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| show | Metals for production of iron and steel.
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| show | Each worker is assigned one task to complete repeatedly.
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| Greenhouse Effect | show 🗑
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| show | Series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed manufacturing.
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| Just-in-time Delivery | show 🗑
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| show | Industry where labor costs are high.
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| show | Factory built by a U.S. company in Mexico along the border to take advantage of cheap labor costs.
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| show | Transfer of low-paid and less-skilled jobs from developed countries to developing countries.
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| Nonferrous | show 🗑
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| show | Pollution that starts from a large area.
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| Outsourcing | show 🗑
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| Ozone | show 🗑
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| show | Atmospheric condition formed through pollution and weather, comes from vehicle emissions.
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| Point-source Pollution | show 🗑
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| Right-to-work Law | show 🗑
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| show | Place to deposit solid waste, where earth is bulldozed over garbage each day to reduce emissions.
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