Unit 2 Vocab! Flashcards
Movement of water through the hydrosphere
Hydronic cycle
Energy resources formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals (ex. Coal)
Fossil fuels
Process of removing salt from ocean water
Desalinization
Theory that earths crust is divided into rigid plates that slowly move across the upper mantle
Plate tectonics
All the features of people’s ways of life
Culture
Human populations that share a common culture or ancestry
Ethnic group
New idea that a culture accepts a process occurring when an idea or innovation is adopted
Innovation
Spread from one person or group to another
Diffusion
Process in which an individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture
Acculturation
Birth rate divided by death rate of a population
Rate of natural increase
The # of live births each year for every 1000 people living in a place
Birthrate
Total # of deaths each year form 1000 people in a place
Death rate
A system of government in which the people decide who will govern
Democracy
economic and political in which the government owns /controls almost all the means of production
Communism
Growth in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
Urbanization
Economic system in which the government decides what to produce, where to make it, and what price to charge
Command economy
Economic system in which people choose freely what to buy and sell
Market economy
A feeling of pride and loyalty for ones country or culture group
Nationalism
A body of members living together as a community
Society
A specific set of fundamental beliefs or practices of a group of people
Religion
of babies a woman can have during her reproducing stage of her life
Fertility rate
The amount of deaths during the first year of life
Infant mortality rate
Politically unified people occupying a definite territory
State
Territory of a country itself
Nation
