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Missionary

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People who want to spread the religion

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Aquifer

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And underground storage of water

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Surplus

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More Then enough

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Latitude

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Horizontal lines on map measured in degrees

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deforestation

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Cutting down trees

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Foreign

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Strange or unfamiliar

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Hemisphere

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Half a circle

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Condensation

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Water vapor turns to liquid and forms the cloud

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Hierarchy

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A system that ranks people over each other

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Procrastinate

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Wait last minute to do assignments

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Karma

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Positive or negative force caused by a person’s actions

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Contiguous

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Border

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Life Expectancy

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How long you’re expected to live

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Weathering

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The breaking on the rocks over time

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Desalination

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The process of removing salt from ocean water

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Topography

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Shape of a land

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Magma

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Liquid rock inside earth

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Longitude

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Vertical lines on the map measured in degrees

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Urban

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City fied

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Indigenous

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Native to land or area

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Monotheism

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Belief in one God

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Migration

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The process of moving from one place to another

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Evaporation

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Process of water turning from a liquid to a gas

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Density

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The amount of people living in an area

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Plate tech tonics

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Theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that move

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Mulattos

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People with both African and European ancestry

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Conquistador

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Someone who Conquers an new land or area

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Polytheism

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Many gods

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Secular

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Nonreligious

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Deity

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God or goddess

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Precipitation

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Water droplets that ball is rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

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Megalopolis

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A group of large cities

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Reincarnation

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Believe that you will be born again with the new identity

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Rural

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Countryside

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Communism

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Government controls market items price;

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Capitalism

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Free market

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GNP

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How much money a country makes a year all around the world; gross national product

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GDP

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How much money a country makes a year in their own country;gross domestic product

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Voodoo

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Christianity and African beliefs

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Evolution

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The belief that everything evolved over time but started off as one simple creature

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Infrastructure

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A system of roads ports facilities needed by modern economy

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Urbanization

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Growth in number of people living in towns and cities

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Creole

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A blend of multiple languages

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Subsistence

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Only farms enough for themself

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Refugee

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People are forced to leave their homeland and can’t return

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Arable

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Good for farming, fertile land

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Epiphyte

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Plants growing on another plant

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Ecotourism

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Tourism focused on nature

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Bipedalism

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Walks with only two legs

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Mestizos

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Offspring of a Spaniard and American Indian

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Gross

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Income

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Demography

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Study of human population

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Fossil

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Remains of prehistoric creatures

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Cartography

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Making a Maps

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Atlas

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Maps

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Erosion

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Breaking down of rocks due to water and wind

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Weather

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Condition during specific time

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Climate

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Weather condition in particular area

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Typhoon

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Harricane

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Permafrost

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Soil freezes forever

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Continental drift

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Earths plates move away slowly

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Sediment

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Sand

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Population Pyramid

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Graph showing male versus female

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Glaciers

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Chunk of ice

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Delta

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Soil at the end of a river

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Soil exhaustion

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Useless soil

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Crop rotation

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Process of rotating crops year around

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Reforestation

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Replanting

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Pull factor

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Things that attract new people

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Push factor

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Things that make people leave country

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Demographic transition model

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How birthrate and death rate rise and fall in a pattern

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Globalization

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To make globally known

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Dialect

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Language

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Mosque

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Islamic church

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Hajj

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Holly pilgrimage to Mecca

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Free market

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Capitalism;people sell stuff at their own price

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Industrialization

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Using machines for economy

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Literacy rates

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Average amount of people that I can read

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Domestication

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You think pies and animals for own use

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Pastoralism

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Agriculture that involves herding animals

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Agribusiness

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Farming to sell

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Nationalism

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What country you’re part of

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Democracy

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People vote and control himself

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Tariff

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Taxes

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Lichens

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Algae; fungi

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NAFTA

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North American free trade agreement; Canada Mexico and US Can trade freely

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Provinces

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Government districts like a state

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Parliament

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Government led by a prime minister

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Isthmus

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Bridge of land connecting 2 lands

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Dictator

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Someone with complete power and control

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Cash crops

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Crops worth a lot of money

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Maquiladoras

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Factories in Mexico owned by Americans

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Santeria

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African and Christian beliefs that originated in Cuba

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Llanos

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Grassland; planes in Colombia and Venezuela

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Buffer state

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Small country surrounded by larger countries

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Coup

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Sudden change in government

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Favelas

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Large ghetto areas around Brazilian cities

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Land locked

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No beach

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Man Grove

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Trees with the roots are growing saltwater

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Hotspot

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One lava rises to the surface

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