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| culture | the way of life that distinguishes a people
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| population density | the average number of people living in a given area
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| brithrate | the number of live briths each year per 1,000
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| immigrant | a person who moves into a country
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| emigrant | a person who leaves a country to live elsewhere
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| urbanization | the growth of a city poplation
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| rural | of,or characteristic of, the countryside
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| culture hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures
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| culture convergence | the contact and interaction of one culture with another
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| diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is transmitted from one group or individual to another
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| culture divergence | the restrictionof a culture from influences
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| sovereignty | a country's freedom and power to decide on policies and action
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| unitary system | a system of goverment in which one central government holds most political power
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| federation | a government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments
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| confederation | a system of government in which individual political units keep thier sovereignty give limited power to central government
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| authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all the political power
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| dictatorship | a system of government in which absolute power is held by a small group or one person
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| totalitartianism | a system of a government in which a central authority controls all aspects of society
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| monarchy | a system of authoritation government headed jby a monarch-king,queen,shah,pr a sultan
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| democracy | a system of government in which the people are invested with the power to choose their leaders and determine government policy
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| traditional economy | an economy system in which families produce goods and services for their own use, with little surplus and exchange of goods
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| market economy | an economic in which decisions about production, price , and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand
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| command economy | an economic system that is controlled by single central government
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| natural resource | a material in the natural environment that people value and use to satisfy their needs
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| renewable resource | a natural resource that the environment continues to supply or replace as it is used
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| nonrenewable resource | a natural resource that cannot be repace oncee it has been used
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| fossil fuel | any one of several nonrenewable mineral resources formed from the remains of
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| nuclear energy | a type of energy produced by fission, the splitting of uranium atoms in a nuclear reactor, releasing stored energy
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| geothermal energy | energy produced from the earth's intense interior heat
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| solar energy | energy produced by the sun
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| primary economic activity | an economic activity that takes or uses natural resources directly, such as fishing or mining
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| subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family
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| commercial farming | the raising of crops a g of crops and livestock for sale in markets
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| sencondary economic activity | an enonomic activity in which people use raw materials to produce or manufacture new products of greater value
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| cottage industry | a small-scale manufacturing operation using little technology, often located in or near people's homes
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| commercial industry | a large-scale manufacturing operation that employs many people and produces large quantities of goods
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| tertiary economic activity | an economic activity in which people do not directly gather or process raw materials but pursue activites that serve other
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| quaternary economic activity | an economic activity that focuses on the acquisition, processing, and sharing of information, such as education or research
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| export | an item that is sent out of the country for sale
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| import | an item that is brought to the country for
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