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20 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs |
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ethnic group |
people who share a common history, language, religion, and physical characteristics |
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dialect |
local form of a language that differs from the main language in pronunciation of the meaning of words |
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democracy |
government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens |
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cultural diffusion |
the process of spreading new knowledge and skills to other cultures |
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civilization |
highly developed cultures |
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death rate |
a number of people out of 1000 who die in a year |
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birthrate |
number of children born each year for every 1000 people |
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urbanization |
movement to cities |
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emigrate |
to move to another country |
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refugee |
person who flees to another country to escape persecution or disaster |
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natural resource |
a product of the earth that people use to meet their needs |
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renewable resource |
natural resource that cannot be used up or can be replace naturally or grown again |
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economic system |
system that sets rules for how people decide what goods and services to produce and how they are exchanged |
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export |
to trade goods to other countries |
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import |
to buy goods from another country |
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quato |
number limit on how many items of a particular product can be imported from a particular country |
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developed country |
country in which a great deal of manufacturing is carried out |
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rights |
benefits and protection guaranteed by law |
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globalization |
development of a word culture and a interdependent world economy |
