100-Vocab Flashcards by Juan Hernandez

Missionary

People who want to spread the religion

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Aquifer

And underground storage of water

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Surplus

More Then enough

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Latitude

Horizontal lines on map measured in degrees

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deforestation

Cutting down trees

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Foreign

Strange or unfamiliar

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Hemisphere

Half a circle

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Condensation

Water vapor turns to liquid and forms the cloud

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Hierarchy

A system that ranks people over each other

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Procrastinate

Wait last minute to do assignments

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Karma

Positive or negative force caused by a person’s actions

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Contiguous

Border

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Life Expectancy

How long you’re expected to live

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Weathering

The breaking on the rocks over time

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Desalination

The process of removing salt from ocean water

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Topography

Shape of a land

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Magma

Liquid rock inside earth

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Longitude

Vertical lines on the map measured in degrees

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Urban

City fied

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Indigenous

Native to land or area

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Monotheism

Belief in one God

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Migration

The process of moving from one place to another

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Evaporation

Process of water turning from a liquid to a gas

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Density

The amount of people living in an area

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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