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28 Cards in this Set
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Death Rate
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number of deaths per year out of every 1000 people.
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Birth Rate
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number of chilfren born each year for every 1000 people.
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Famine
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severe lack of food
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Population density
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average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer.
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Urbanization
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growth of cities
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Emigrate
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to leave a country and move to another
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Refugee
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person who flees to another country to escape persecution of disaster.
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Culture
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way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and costums.
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Ethnic group
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people with a common language, history, religion, and so0me physical traits.
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Dialect
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local form of a language that may have a distinct vocabulary and pronunciation.
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Demoncracy
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form of a limited government in which power rests with the people, and all citizens share in running the government.
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Dictatorship
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form of government in which a leader rules by force and typically limits citizen, freedoms.
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Monarchy
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government led by king or queen who inherited power by being born into ruling family.
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Civilazation
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higlydeveloped culture
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Cultural diffusion
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process of spreading ideas, languages, and customs from one culture to another.
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Culture region
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area that includes different countries that share similar cultural traits.
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Globalization
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development of worldwide culture with an interdependent economy.
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Natural Resources
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– material from the earth that people use to meet their needs.
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Renewable resources
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natural resource that can be replaced naturally or grown again.
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Nonrewable resources
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natural resource such as a mineral that cannot be replaced.
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Economic system
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system that sets rulews for deciding what goods and srvices to produce, how to produce them, and who will receive the.
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Developed country
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– country with an economy that has mix of agriculture , a great deal of manufacturing,and service industries and that is very productive and provides its people with a high standard of living.
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Developing country
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country that has limited industry, where agriculture remains important, incomes are generally low.
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Export
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to sell goods or resources to other countries
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Inport
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to buy resources or goods from other countries
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Tariff
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tax added to the price of goods that are imported
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Qouta
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number limit on how many items of a particular product can be imported from a certain nation.
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Free Trade
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removal of trade restricsions so that goods flow freely among countries.
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