100-Vocab Flashcards
Missionary
People who want to spread the religion
Aquifer
And underground storage of water
Surplus
More Then enough
Latitude
Horizontal lines on map measured in degrees
deforestation
Cutting down trees
Foreign
Strange or unfamiliar
Hemisphere
Half a circle
Condensation
Water vapor turns to liquid and forms the cloud
Hierarchy
A system that ranks people over each other
Procrastinate
Wait last minute to do assignments
Karma
Positive or negative force caused by a person’s actions
Contiguous
Border
Life Expectancy
How long you’re expected to live
Weathering
The breaking on the rocks over time
Desalination
The process of removing salt from ocean water
Topography
Shape of a land
Magma
Liquid rock inside earth
Longitude
Vertical lines on the map measured in degrees
Urban
City fied
Indigenous
Native to land or area
Monotheism
Belief in one God
Migration
The process of moving from one place to another
Evaporation
Process of water turning from a liquid to a gas
Density
The amount of people living in an area
Plate tech tonics
Theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that move
Mulattos
People with both African and European ancestry
Conquistador
Someone who Conquers an new land or area
Polytheism
Many gods
Secular
Nonreligious
Deity
God or goddess
Precipitation
Water droplets that ball is rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
Megalopolis
A group of large cities
Reincarnation
Believe that you will be born again with the new identity
Rural
Countryside
Communism
Government controls market items price;
Capitalism
Free market
GNP
How much money a country makes a year all around the world; gross national product
GDP
How much money a country makes a year in their own country;gross domestic product
Voodoo
Christianity and African beliefs
Evolution
The belief that everything evolved over time but started off as one simple creature
Infrastructure
A system of roads ports facilities needed by modern economy
Urbanization
Growth in number of people living in towns and cities
Creole
A blend of multiple languages
Subsistence
Only farms enough for themself
Refugee
People are forced to leave their homeland and can’t return
Arable
Good for farming, fertile land
Epiphyte
Plants growing on another plant
Ecotourism
Tourism focused on nature
Bipedalism
Walks with only two legs
Mestizos
Offspring of a Spaniard and American Indian
Gross
Income
Demography
Study of human population
Fossil
Remains of prehistoric creatures
Cartography
Making a Maps
Atlas
Maps
Erosion
Breaking down of rocks due to water and wind
Weather
Condition during specific time
Climate
Weather condition in particular area
Typhoon
Harricane
Permafrost
Soil freezes forever
Continental drift
Earths plates move away slowly
Sediment
Sand
Population Pyramid
Graph showing male versus female
Glaciers
Chunk of ice
Delta
Soil at the end of a river
Soil exhaustion
Useless soil
Crop rotation
Process of rotating crops year around
Reforestation
Replanting
Pull factor
Things that attract new people
Push factor
Things that make people leave country
Demographic transition model
How birthrate and death rate rise and fall in a pattern
Globalization
To make globally known
Dialect
Language
Mosque
Islamic church
Hajj
Holly pilgrimage to Mecca
Free market
Capitalism;people sell stuff at their own price
Industrialization
Using machines for economy
Literacy rates
Average amount of people that I can read
Domestication
You think pies and animals for own use
Pastoralism
Agriculture that involves herding animals
Agribusiness
Farming to sell
Nationalism
What country you’re part of
Democracy
People vote and control himself
Tariff
Taxes
Lichens
Algae; fungi
NAFTA
North American free trade agreement; Canada Mexico and US Can trade freely
Provinces
Government districts like a state
Parliament
Government led by a prime minister
Isthmus
Bridge of land connecting 2 lands
Dictator
Someone with complete power and control
Cash crops
Crops worth a lot of money
Maquiladoras
Factories in Mexico owned by Americans
Santeria
African and Christian beliefs that originated in Cuba
Llanos
Grassland; planes in Colombia and Venezuela
Buffer state
Small country surrounded by larger countries
Coup
Sudden change in government
Favelas
Large ghetto areas around Brazilian cities
Land locked
No beach
Man Grove
Trees with the roots are growing saltwater
Hotspot
One lava rises to the surface