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60 Cards in this Set
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What is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs?
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Culture
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What are the 8 traits which geographers look at when studying a culture?
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1.Social Groups, 2. Language,
3. religion, 4. daily life, 5. history, 6. arts, 7. government, 8. economy |
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What is a group of people who share a common culture, language, or history?
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Ethnic Group
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What is a type of government in which kings and queens inherit the right to rule?
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Monarchy
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What is the kind of government that is under the control of a person who took control of the country by military force and rules as they see fit?
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Dictatorship
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What is the kind of government in which the people chose their leaders by voting for them?
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Democracy
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What are the rules for how people decide what goods and services to produce and how they are exchanged?
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Economic System
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What are economic decisions that are based on customs and beliefs?
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Traditional Economy
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What is the kind of economy in which individuals make decisions about what they want to produce?
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Market Economy
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What is the kind of economy that has the idea that you have the right to own property or business without the interference of the government?
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Free Enterprise
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What is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs?
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Culture
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What are the 8 traits which geographers look at when studying a culture?
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1.Social Groups, 2. Language,
3. religion, 4. daily life, 5. history, 6. arts, 7. government, 8. economy |
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What is a group of people who share a common culture, language, or history?
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Ethnic Group
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What is a type of government in which kings and queens inherit the right to rule?
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Monarchy
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What is the kind of government that is under the control of a person who took control of the country by military force and rules as they see fit?
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Dictatorship
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What is the economic system in which a government owns the businesses and controls decisions about what goods and services will be produced?
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Command Economy (Socialism or Communism)
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What is the process of spreading new knowledge and skills to other cultures?
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Cultural Diffusion
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What do we call the people who lived in small groups and moved from place to place following the sources of food?
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Nomads
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What are the 4 civilizations that arose about 10,000 years ago?
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1. Egypt
2. India 3. China 4. Iraq |
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What do you call the using of machines and factories to make goods?
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Industrialization
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What do you call areas that share similar economic systems, forms of government and social groups?
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Culture Region
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What is the term for number of people out of every 1,000 who die in a year?
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Death Rate
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What is the term for the number of children born each year for every 1000 people?
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birthrate
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What is the word for the lack of food for the subsistence of the population?
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famine
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What is the term for the average number of people living in a square mile?
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Population Density
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What is the term for the movement of people from the farms and or villiages into the cities?
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Urbanization
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What is the biggest reason why most people move into the cities?
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To find jobs
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What is the word for leaving the country of one's birth?
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Emigrate
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What is the word for moving into a new country?
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Immigrate
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What do we call one who moves out of a country?
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Emigrant
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What do we call one who moves into a new country?
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Immigrant
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What do we call people who flee to another country to escape persecution or disaster?
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Refugee
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What are products of the earth that people use to meet their needs?
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natural resources
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What are resources that cannot be used up but can be replaced naturally or grown again?
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Renewable resources
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What is the term for energy that is generated by falling water?
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Hydroelectric Power
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What do you call power produced by the heat of the sun?
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Solar Power
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What is the term for resources that are limited in supply and cannot be replaced?
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Nonrenewable resources
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What is the word for nonrenewable resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas?
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Fossil Fuel
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What is the word for power made by creating a controlled atomic reaction?
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Nuclear power
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What is the word for growing of food for sale in markets?
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Commercial Farming
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What is the term for focusing on the economic activities that are best suited to their resources?
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Specialize
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What do you call products that leave a country?
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Exports
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What do you call products that come into a country?
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Imports
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What do you call a tax on imported goods?
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Tariff
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What the term that means a number limit set on how many items need to be produced?
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Quota
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What is the removal of trade barriers so that goods may flow freely among countries?
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Free Trade
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What do we call countries with a great deal of manufacturing?
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Developed Countries
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What is the term for the practice of growing only enough food to provide for your own family?
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Subsistence Farming
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What is the word for countries that are working toward industrialization?
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Developing Countries
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What is the removal of salt from seawater?
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Desalinazation
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What is the careful use of resources?
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Conservation
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What are the 2 main steps in managing water supplies?
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Conservation and avoid pollution of water
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What are powerful chemicals that kill crop-destroying insects?
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Pesticides
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What are places where plants and animals are dependent upon one another and their particular surroundings?
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Ecosystems
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What do farmers add to the soil to help supply some of the minerals that the soil is lacking?
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Fertilizers
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What is the word for the changing of crops grown in a particular field to avoid using up all the minerals in the soil?
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Drop Rotation
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What is the word for delivering of water to crops?
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Irrigation
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What is the word for the carrying away of soil by either wind or water?
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Erosion
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Wat is the word for the cutting down of the forests?
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Deforestation
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What is the word for rain that contains high levels of chemical pollutants?
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Acid Rain
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