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31 Cards in this Set
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An economic and political system in which the government owns or controls almost all of the facilities and resources necessary to make products
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Communism
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An economic activity involving the movement and processing of information
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Telecommunication
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An economic activity tat provides services to primary and secondary industries and to consumers; also called a service industry
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Tertiary industries
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An economic activity that takes goods made in primary industries and processes them into produces that are useful to consumers
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Secondary industry
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An economic activity, such as agriculture, forestry, or mining that makes direct use of natural resources or raw materials
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Primary industry
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Loans or gifts of money from one country to another
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Foreign aid
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A business with activities in many countries
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Multinational company
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An economic principle under which prices are determined mostly through competition and people are free to choose what and when to sell and buy.
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free enterprise
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A _____ is an area that has many shared cultural traits
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culture region
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This crop is known as the most widely cultivated plant in the world today
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wheat
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This stresses the strict following of basic traditional principles.
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Fundamentalism
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_____is a population that shares a common cultural background
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Ethnic group
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When a hunter gathers studied a plant or animal so closely they found out how to grow or tame it is an example of
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Domestication
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When people grow food on small farms mostly for their own families it is called
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subsistence agriculture
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In a ............. human rights are promoted and they value individual principles
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democracy
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Someone who moves out of a country
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Emigrant
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The ability to read and write
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literacy
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An economic system based on free enterprise, in which resources, industries and businesses are owned by private individuals.
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capitalism
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An economy in which consumers determine what is to be bought or sold by buying or not buying certain goods and services
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market economy
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An economy in which the government determines wages, the kinds and amounts of goods produced and the price of goods
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command economy
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Electronically transmitted communication
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telecommunications
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Facilities and structures such as roads, bridges, and power plants, that are needed to build industries and move goods in and out of a country
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Infastructure
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Someone who moves into a country
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Immigrant
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....taxes placed on imports and exports
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tariffs
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...... includes all the features of a society's way of life
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culture
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.................... are activities and behaviors that people repeatedly practice
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culture traits
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The number of births per 1000 people in a given year
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birth rate
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The number of deaths per 1000 people in a given year
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death rate
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The study that emphasizes statistics to look at human population, distribution, population density and trends in population.
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demography
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The value of goods and services produced by a country in a year, both inside and outside the country
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Gross National Product
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The value of goods and services produce within a country in a year, not including income earned outside of that country
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Gross Domestic Product
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