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Midterm 2 Flashcards

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1
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What are the most basic industries like agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mining: secondary industries or primary industries

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Primary industries

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These farmers made their own clothes, furniture, and homes: cash farmers or subsistence farmers

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Subsistence farmers

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These farmers raise large cash crops for profit: commercial farmers or science farmers

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Commercial farmers

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This farming is common in rugged mountains and dry areas where regular farming is difficult: nomadic herding or tribal farming

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Nomadic herding

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The cultivation or farming in a controlled artificial environment: aquaculture or permaculture

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Aquaculture

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Solid crystals that occur naturally and have a definite chemical composition: wax or minerals

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Minerals

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Gold, silver, and platinum are types of these metals

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Precious metals

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Copper, lead, and iron are mined in great quantities and are considered to be this type of metal

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Common metal

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The ore of aluminum: bauxite or gold

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Bauxite

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The combination of common metals into one: alloys or tin

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Alloys

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What fuel generates most of the world’s electricity: coal or water

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Coal

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These types of industries, like construction, take raw materials and change them into useful form

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Secondary industries

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Big businesses and machines that turn right materials into new products on a large scale: crafting or manufacturing

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Manufacturing

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The application of science to industry: technology or biology

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Technology

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Goods and products that lasts less than a year: nondurable goods or Starbucks

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Nondurable goods

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Products that last more than a year like lumber, stone, and glass: trusted goods or durable goods

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Durable goods

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These industries are also known as service industries and include teaching, advertising, and cleaning: tertiary industries or third industries

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Tertiary industries

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What provides electricity, gas, water, sewage, and trash collection: utilities or fossil fuels

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Utilities

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The study of the process by which people in countries make choices about money, resources, goods, and services: economics or philosophy

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Economics

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The money and equipment necessary to build industries: free market or capital

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Capital

21
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The most common measurement of a country’s wealth

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GDP

22
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Taxes on imports and exports: embargo or tariff

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Tariff

23
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A ban on importing or exporting certain products or trading with a particular country: embargo or economics

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Embargo

24
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The different speech patterns within a single language: linguist or dialect

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Dialect

25
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The most prominent language family: French or Indo European

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Indo European

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The foundation of a society: workers or family

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Family

27
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A large group of people with a common history and language that have developed a strong sense of identity: state or nation

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Nation

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A nation of people that has established its own government: nation – state or oligarchy

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Nation – state

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A country’s unlimited authority to run affairs within its own borders: sovereignty or socialism

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Sovereignty

30
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A country’s boundaries that follow the twists and turns of rivers and mountains: natural boundaries or political boundaries

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Natural boundaries

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When people within a state’s borders fight their own government

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Civil War

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Official records of births, marriages, divorces, and deaths: vital statistics or surveys

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Vital statistics

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Subtracting the number of deaths from the number of births equals: rate of natural increase or GDP

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Rate of natural increase

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The number of years a person is expected to live

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Life expectancy

35
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Number of children born per 1000 people

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Crude birth rate

36
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The average number of people who live on each square mile of land: population density or longevity

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Population density

37
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Land that can be used to plant crops: wetlands or arable land

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Arable land

38
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With no formal government exist and people do whatever they want

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Anarchy

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A type of government where a dictator rules by authority of the military

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Dictatorship

40
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Originally described as a government in which the whole population ruled: democracy or authoritarianism

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Democracy

41
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Set of principles that guide a governments international relations: AMP or foreign policy

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Foreign-policy

42
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Three ways one state can influence its neighbor

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Foreign trade, foreign aide, and threat of military attack

43
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Dangerous nations that ignore the most fundamental principles of international relations: rogue nations or diversity

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Rogue nations

44
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All people have the right to vote for the type of government they will have: total integrity or self-determination

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Self-determination

45
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Defensible Borders: territorial integrity or peacekeepers

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Territorial integrity

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