Ch 5, L1-2 Geography

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culture

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a learned system of shared beliefs that guide a person's behavior

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ethnic groups

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cultural groups of people who share learned beliefs and practices

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multicultural

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a mixture of different cultures within the same country

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race

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a group of people who share inherited physical or biological traits

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acculturation

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the process of cultural changes that result from long term contact with another society

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symbol

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a word, shape, color, flag, or other sign that stands for something else

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domestication

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the growing of a plant or taming of an animal by a people for their own use

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subsistence agriculture

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a type of farming where farmers grow just enough food for themselves and their families

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commercial agriculture

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a type of farming where farmers produce food for sale

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civilization

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a highly complex culture with growing cities and economic activity

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demography

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branch of geography that studies human populations

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population density

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average number of people living within a sq. mile or sq. kilometer

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urbanization

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movement of people from farms and rural areas to cities

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birthrate

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annual number of births per 1,000 people

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death rate

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annual number of deaths per 1,000 people

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economy

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system that includes all activities that people do to earn a living - producing, buying, selling, and trading goods and services

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primary industries

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economic activities that directly involve natural resources or raw materials, i.e. farming, mining

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secondary industries

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economic activities that change raw materials created by primary industries into finished products

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tertiary industries

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economic activities that handle goods that are ready to be sold to consumers

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quaternary industries

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economic activities that include specialized skills or knowledge and work mostly with information

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gross national product (GNP)

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value of all goods and services that a country produces in one year within or outside the country

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gross domestic product (GDP)

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value of all goods and services produced within a country

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developed countries

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industrialized countries that have strong secondary, tertiary, and quaternary industries

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literacy rate

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percentage of people who can read and write

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developing countries

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countries in different stages of moving toward development

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free enterprise

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economic system in which people, not government, decide what to make, sell, or buy

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democracy

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political system in which a country's people elect their leaders and rule by majority

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communism

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ecomonic and political system in which the government owns or controls almost all of the means of production, industries, wages, and prices