Rubenstein APHG Chapter 9 & 11 Vocab
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| show | Solar energy systems that collects energy through the use of mechanical devices such as photovoltaic cells or flat plate collectors.
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| Adolescent fertility rate | show 🗑
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| show | Fuel that derives from plant material and animal waste.
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| Breeder reactor | show 🗑
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| Demand | show 🗑
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| Developed country (more developed country [MDC]) | show 🗑
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| Developing country (less developed country [LDC]) | show 🗑
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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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| show | Trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker-owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organization, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
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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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| Foreign direct investment (FDI) | show 🗑
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| Fossil fuel | show 🗑
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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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| show | Creation of energy by joining the nuclei of two hydrogen atoms to form helium.
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| Gender Inequality Index (GII) | show 🗑
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| Geothermal energy | show 🗑
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| show | The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally one year).
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| show | The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country.
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| Housing bubble | show 🗑
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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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| show | Power generated from moving water.
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| show | Modification of the HDI to account for inequality within a country.
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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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| Passive solar energy systems | show 🗑
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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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| Primary sector | show 🗑
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| show | The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it.
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| Proven reserve | show 🗑
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| Purchasing power parity (PPP) | show 🗑
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| show | Materials from a nuclear reaction that emit radiation; contact with such particles may be harmful or lethal to people; therefore, materials must be safely stored for thousands of years.
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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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| show | The quantity of something that producers have available for sale.
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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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| show | Sulfur and nitrogen oxides turn to acids and come down to earth as rain, snow, or fog.
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| Air Pollution | show 🗑
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| show | Article of clothing.
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| Biochemical Oxygen Demand | show 🗑
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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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| Chlorofluorocarbon | show 🗑
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| Cottage industry | show 🗑
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| Ferrous | show 🗑
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| Fordist Production | show 🗑
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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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| show | Shipment of parts to a factory moments before they are needed.
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| Labor-intensive industry | show 🗑
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| Maquiladora | show 🗑
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| New International Division of Labor | show 🗑
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| Nonferrous | show 🗑
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| show | Pollution that starts from a large area.
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| show | Decision by corporation to move production to independent suppliers.
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| show | Gas that absorbs ultraviolet radiation, found in the stratosphere above Earth's surface.
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| show | Atmospheric condition formed through pollution and weather, comes from vehicle emissions.
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| show | Pollution that enters body of water from a specific source.
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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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