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- geography
- study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other.
- location
- position on the earth's surface
- latitude
- measure distances north or south of equator
- longitude
- measures distances east or west of the prime meridian
- exports
- goods sent to markets outside of a country
- imports
- goods brought into a country
- interdependence
- dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world
- map projections
- ways of showing the curved Earth on a flat surface
- topography
- physical features of a place or region
- vegetation
- plant life of a place or region
- mountains
- high, steep, rugged land that rises above the surrounding land.
- elevation
- height above sea level
- hills
- areas of raised lands
- plains
- large areas of fairly level or gently rolling land
- plateaus
- large areas of high, flat or gently rolling land
- climate
- average weather a place has over a period of 20-30 years.
- culture
- all the things that make up a people's entire way of life
- nuclear family
- includes a wife, a husband, and their children
- extended family
- has several generations living in a house
- monotheism
- belief in one god
- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- democracy
- people have supreme power
- republic
- peopel chose the leaders who represent them
- dictatorship
- ruler or group holds power by force
- technology
- refers to the skills and tools a people use
- diffusion
- movement of customs or ideas from one place to another
- subculture
- group of people within a society who share certain beliefs, vaules, and customs
- ethnocentrism
- people who judge other cultures by the standards of their own culture
- racism
- belief that one racial group is naturally superior
- nomads
- Member of a hunting people who travel from place to place to find food.
- civilization
- highly organized group of people with their own language and ways of living
- archaeologists
- are scientists who study the objects left by early people
- artisans
- skilled craftworkers
- capital
- money that can be invested in business ventures for the purpose of making a profit
- entrepreneurs
- People who risked their money to set up businesses in order to make a profit.
- urbanization
- growth of cities
- imperialism
- control by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region.
- nationalism
- pride in and loyalty to one's country
- westernization
- adoption of western culture
- cash crops
- crops that could be sold on the world market
- modernization
- Changes in a government that enable it to set up a stable government and produce a high level of goods and services.
- tariff
- tax on imported goods
- privatization
- Sells state-owned industries to prive investors.
- literacy
- ability to read and write
- population density
- average number of people living in an area of a specific size