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Geography Flashcards

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(n) too many people live in one specific area that causes overload

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(adj) suitable for marriage

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Eligible

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(n) To destroy the reproductive ability, so that a particular person would not be able to reproduce

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Sterilization

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(n) When a mother is forced to get rid off the baby inside her womb

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Abortions

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(n) When the Government only allows a family to have one child due to its country rapid growth population.

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One-child Policy

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To take away or look at other people’s property, usually without permission

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Ransack

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Uneven or unequal

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Lopsided

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The ability to produce young

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Fertility

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Talk in which people make jokes about each other in a friendly way

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Banter

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with the help and support of (someone or something)

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Auspices

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polite behavior that shows respect for other people, something that you say to be polite especially when you meet someone

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Courtesy

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(n) The action or fact of making a specified thing smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

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Reduction

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(n) A number to be divided by another number.

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Dividend

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(v) To reduce, decrease, to avoid.

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Alleviate

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(n) The remarkable and amazing changes in demography (The birth/death rates, migrations,..) of a given population.

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Demographic Change

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(n) An effect of China’s One-Child Policy in which an employed grandchild is responsible for the care of both parents and four grandparents.

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The 4-2-1 problem

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(n) The efforts to have one ideal number of kids in a family, often using “artificial contraception” or “voluntary sterilisation” as a solution.

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Family-planning

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(n) A person who organises and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

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Entrepreneurs

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a person who tries to bring two people together so that they will marry each other

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Matchmaking

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to continue for a long time without activity or progress in an unpleasant or unwanted situation

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Languish

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new and different from what has been known before

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Novel

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the study of changes (such as the number of births, deaths, marriages, and illnesses) that occur over a period of time in human populations

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Demographer

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The force that is applied when the law is not followed

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Crackdown

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to forcefully take something away from somone

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extract

25
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To destroy someone’s living space by scatter the objects

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ransack

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A rate of something’s movement

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momentum

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to indicate or introduce

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implicate

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something that directs at certain information

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indicators

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The graph or infomation of certain topic

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demograph

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good amount, or quality

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substantial

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do something that forces you to use your effort

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affair

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MEDC

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More Economically Developed Country

Better techology, better heathcare,

better education, Much more income per capita ,etc

ex; US, Japan,France

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Unfair Trade

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It referred as deceptive trade practices such as misrepresentation, false advertising, tied selling and other acts that are declared unlawful by statute

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Wealth disparity

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The gap of the different statuses in a society

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Debt

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owning someone

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Natural disaster

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caused by forces of nature: Tornado, tsunami

cause of poverty

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Development Indicator

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Statistics or numbers that meausre how much the country is developed. How much the country has grown economically and socially. And how good is the quality of life in a country

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HDI

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compose of life expectancy, education, and income per capita. It is measured between scale 0-1.

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Primary Products

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A product that is made of a natural raw material, an unmanufactured product.

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Literacy Rate

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a development indicator reveals the percentage of population in one country to read and write well.

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GNI

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Amount of money that the country receive every month/year

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Dependency

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Can’t survive without something, a country

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Primary products

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The resources that haven’t gone through the process of manufacturing (e.g. trees, oil)

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Colonialism

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The definition of colonialism is the act of one nation controlling another for economic gain.

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Indicator

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a device used to provide specific information that indicates a level

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GNH

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Measures happiness of people in a country

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Fair Trade

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Trade in which fair prices are paid to producers in developing countries. Also, fair working condition and time should be given.

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LEDC

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Less Economically Developed Country

Lack of skills, techology, less income per capita

ex; Cambodia,

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Aid

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to support.

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Literacy Rate

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The percentage of population (age15+) of a country, who could read, understand and write.

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NICs (New Industrialized Countries)

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NIC

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Newly Industrialized Country- country whose level of economic and social development ranks somewhere between the developing and developed

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