Ch 18-20 Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
domestication | the process of training and breeding animals for use by humans |
communism | a system of government in which the government controls the means production determining what goods will be made how much workers will be paid and how much items will cost |
Eurasia | the name some geographers suggest should be used for the landmass of Europe and Asia |
Inland sea | a sea that is almost completely surrounded by land |
tundra | a dry treeless plain where temperature are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can grow |
taiga | thinly scattered coniferous forests found in Europe and Asia |
steppe | a temperate grassland found in Europe and Asia |
multieethnic | composed of many ethnic groups |
ethnic group | people who share such things as culture language and religion |
acid rain | rain whose high concentration of chemicals usually from industrial pollution, pollutes water, kills plant and animal life and eats away at the surface of stone and rock a form of chemical weathering |
infant mortality | the number of children per 1000 live births who die within the first year |
maternal morality | the number of women who died due to pregnancy and child birth complications per 100,000 live births |
life expectancy | the number of years an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics |
national identity | a people's sense of what make them a nation |
ghetto | a section of the city in which a particular minority group is forced to live |
holocaust | the execution of 6 million Jews in Nazi concentration camps during world war two |
velvet revalution | |
collective farm | |
privatization | the process of selling government-owned industries and businesses to private owners |
balkanize | |
entrepreneur | |
multiplier effect | the effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy |
anex | |
diversity |
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Gabe Hopkins
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