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25 Cards in this Set
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absolute location |
the exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found |
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culture |
the total knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by members of a group |
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birth rate |
the number of live births per total population, often expressed per thousand population |
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command economy |
the type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of production. also called a planned economy |
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biome |
a regional ecosystem |
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Continental Divide |
the line of the highest points in north america that marks the separation between rivers flowing eastward and westward |
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biological weapons |
a bacterium or virus that can be used to hunt or kill people, animals, or plants |
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Amozon rainforest |
the second longest river in the world and one of South America's three major river systems, running about 4,000 miles from west to east, and emptying into the atlantic ocean |
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biodiversity |
the variety of organisms within an ecosystem |
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bubonic plague |
a disease that killed millions of people in the ____ centery |
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relative location |
describes a place in relation to other places around it |
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latitude |
a set of imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator |
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longitude |
a set of imaginary lines that go around the earth over the boles |
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equator |
the imaginary line that runs through the middle of the globe |
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urbanization |
the dramatic rise in the number of cities and changes in lifestyle that results |
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innovation |
taking existing elements of society and creating something new to meet a need |
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innovation |
taking existing elements of society and creating something new to meet a need |
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diffusion |
the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior to different societies |
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polynesia |
1 of 3 regions in oceania, meaning "many islands" |
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dialect |
a version of a language that reflects changes in speech patterns due to class, region, or cultural changes |
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population density |
the average number of people who live in a measurable area, reached by dividing the number of inhabitants in an area by the amount of land they occupy |
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fertility rate |
the average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime |
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rate of natural increase |
the rate at which population is growing, found by subtracting the mortality rate from birthrate |
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population pyramid |
a graphic device that shows gender and age distribution of a population |
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market economy |
a type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by the demand from consumers |
