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17 Cards in this Set
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culture
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the set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people
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ethnic group
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a group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, religious, or cultural background
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dialect
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a regional variety of a language with unique features, such as vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation
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cultural region
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a geographic area in which people have certain traits in common
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globalization
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the process by which nations, cultures, and economies become mixed
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renewable resources |
resources that can be totally replaced or are always available naturally |
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nonrenewable resources |
the resources that cannot be totally replaced |
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economic system |
how a society decides on the ownership and distribution of its economic resources |
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command economy |
an economy in which the means of prodction are publicaly owned |
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mixed economy |
an economy in which parts of the economy are privately owned and parts are owned by the government |
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gross domestic product (GDP) |
the total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a single year |
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standard of living |
the level at which a person, a group, or a nation lives as measured by the extent to which it meets its needs |
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productivity |
the measurement of what is produced and what is required to produce it |
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export |
to send a product produced in one country to another country |
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import |
when a country brings in a product from another country |
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free trade |
arrangement whereby a group of countries decides to set little or no tariffs on quotas |
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sustainability |
the economic principle by which a country works to create conditions where all the natural resources for meeting the needs of society are available |
