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Primary industries
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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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Secondary industries
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an economic activity that takes goods made in primary industries and produces them into products that are useful to consumers
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Tertiary industries
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An economic activity that provides services to primary and secondary industries and to consumers;also called a service industry
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Quaternary industries
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An economic activity involving movement and processing of information
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GNP Gross National Product
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The value of goods and services produced by a country in a year, both inside and outside of the country
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GDP Gross Domestic Product
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The value of goods and services produced inside a country in a year, not including income earned outside of that country
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Developed countries
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A wealthy country that has a good educational system, widely available health care, and many manufacturing and service industries
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Developing Countries
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A poorer country in which many people live by subsistence farming and in which there are few manufacturing and service industries
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Command economy
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An economy in which the government determinds wages, the kinds and amounts of goods produced and the prices of goods
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Culture
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The features of a society's way of life passed down from gneration to generation throught teachings, exaples. and imitation
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immigrant
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a person who moves into a country
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emmigrant
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A person who moves out of a country
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quota
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A limit on the amount of a particular good that can be imported
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tariff
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A tax placed on an import or export
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urbanization
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A growth in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
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diffusion
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A process by which an innovation or other culture trait spreads from 1 culture region to another
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innovation
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A new idea that is accepted into a culture
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acculturation
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A process by which 1 culture changes a great deal through its meetings with another culture
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nationalism
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Feelings of pride in ones country
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fundamentlism
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A movement that stresses the strict following of basic traditional principles
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culture traits
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An activity or behavior repeatedly practiced by people in a given culture
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Culture regions
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An area with many shared culture traits
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ethnic group
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A population that shares a common cultural backround
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Industrialiization
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deleloped industries
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