ch 3 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
1.culture | the way of life that distinguishes a people for example government language religion customs and beliefs |
2.population density | the average number of people living in an given area |
3.birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1,000 people |
4.immigrant | a person who moves into a country |
5.emigrant | a person who leaves a country to live elsewhere |
6.urbanization | the growth of cit populations |
7.rural | of or characteristics of the countryside |
8.cultural hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures |
9.cultural convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another |
10.diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual to another |
11.cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences |
sovereignty | s country's freedom and power to decide on policies and actions |
unitary system | a system of government in which one central government holds most of the political power |
federation | a government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep their sovereignty but give limited power to a central government |
authoritarian | description of a system of government in which the leaders hold all political powers |
dictatorship | a system of government in which absolute power is held by a small group or one person |
totalitarianism | a system of government in which a central authority controls all aspect of society |
monarchy | a system of author |
democracy | a system of government in which the people are invested with the power to choose thier leaders and determine government policy |
traditional economy | an economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use as a subsistence economy |
market economy | an economic system in which economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand |
command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |
natural resource | |
renewable resource | |
nonrenewable resource | |
fossil fuel | |
nuclear ener |
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